Tales to Astonish 1959 #6 - 3.5 - $50.00

Stone men rise out of the ground and set off a panic. A geologist realizes that the creatures are just explorers and will return underground on their own.

A teenager is inventing a mechanical potato peeler, but a supernatural figure stops him to preserve the culture of hand-peeling potatoes in kitchens.

An arrogant businessman becomes governor of an alien planet and lives in an oxygen-filled dome, forbidding the natives from entering. When his oxygen pump breaks he has so thoroughly frightened them that none will come to his aid, and he slowly runs out of air.

A man with his date at the museum laughs at the painting of Pan. The museum guard chastises him for it, and he leaves. Later, his date sees him on the street and asks him why his hair has fallen out. He doesn't tell her that, as they were leaving the museum, he looked back at the guard walking down the hall and saw that the man had cloven hooves.

A criminal sneaks aboard an experimental nuclear missile planning to hijack it and sell it to the Soviets, but after the rocket launches he discovers that it lacks internal control.

Alien invaders disguise themselves as wooden statues from an African village to infiltrate the homes of the wealthy and powerful, but their plans fail because the coats of varnish added by the exporters immobilize them.

Includes 10 pages of paid advertisements (pages 2, 9, 15, 19, 25, 27, 33-36 of comic including inside front cover, inside back cover and back cover); pages of comic not numbered. All new stories are narrated in the first person. On-sale date from 1959 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

• I Saw the Invasion of the Stone Men! - George Klein Inks credit per Atlas Tales. Previous indexer credited Christopher Rule. Michael J. Vassallo and Nick Caputo are not 100% certain of the Klein inking credit, suspecting it may be an unknown inker.
• I Saw the Invasion of the Stone Men - Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 3-7 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
• Patent Pending - Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
• I Was the Man Under Glass! - Story is pages 10-14 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
• I Laughed at the Great God, Pan! - Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 16-18, 20 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4).
• I Became a...Human Bomb! - Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 21-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4).
• I Was a Prisoner of the Living Statues! - Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).