Astonishing 1951 #37 - 3.5 - $125.00
Presents well, but cover is split about 6 inches from the top.
Potter goes to Arabia to find Aladdin's lamp. He tries to use the lamp's genie to improve his life but the genie twists every wish. Potter wishes his wife were young and beautiful, so it kills Nora and Ahmed assigns his daughter to be Potter's wife. Grief-stricken, Potter orders the genie to kill him, which Ahmed's daughter happily does.
Mishon advertises for scientists to build a rocket to Mars. They succeed at their goal and he leads an expedition to the planet, then reveals he's really a Martian who wanted to return home and smashes the rocket on Mars' surface.
Pierre leaps 200 feet into a tank without water safely but when he tries the same stunt with water he dies - from drowning.
People from 1987 enter suspended animation to be awakened in 2187, but ants get into the capsule and cause the deaths of everyone.
Parrish tries to free Tenney from being a tribal "Devil-Man" by operating to remove his disfiguring goitre, but the goitre somehow travels to Parrish's body during the operation; Parrish becomes the new Devil-Man.
On sale date as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, July-December 1954, page 194, registration number B502621.
- Poor Pierre! - Pencils/inks: Credits from www.atlastales.com. Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.
- Master of the Genie - Job Number and Credit information from www.atlastales.com. Ross Andru inker credit removed based on information from www.atlastales.com [Mike Nielsen 2/2010]
- Fatal Vision - Job Number and Credit information from www.atlastales.com.
- And Then... Mars! - Script credit from Newman's log book, The Comics! Vol. 14, No. 8 (Aug. 2003); Job Number from www.atlastales.com.
- Poor Pierre! - Job Number from www.atlastales.com.
- Don't Touch! - Script credit from Newman's log book, The Comics! Vol. 14, No. 8 (Aug. 2003); Job Number from www.atlastales.com.
- The Devil-Man! - Job Number and credit information from www.atlastales.com.
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