Issue | #63 |
Published | June 1958 |
Frequency | bi-monthly |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Notes | Distributed to newstands in January 1958. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Information on this issue supplied by Tom Lammers and the Atlas/Timely discussion list. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
Characters | Sam Barlow |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Bill Everett |
Inks | Bill Everett |
Characters | Joe Morse; Pete Atkins; Mr. Cartel |
Synopsis | A wax museum owner claims that his statues are criminals petrified by the head of Medusa. When a thief ignores this warning and tries to rob him, the museum gains a new statue. |
Genre | occult |
Pencils | Alphonso Greene |
Inks | Alphonso Greene |
Characters | Harold Simpson; Flora Simpson |
Synopsis | A meek man is left a bottle of gas that changes personalities. Instead of using it to become more daring, he uses it on UN diplomats. The gas has unexpected effects, but in the end he uses all of it to avert war, though no one knows the sacrifice he made. |
Genre | occult |
Pencils | Howard O'Donnell |
Inks | Howard O'Donnell |
Characters | Joe Fulsom; Hirala |
Synopsis | A cafe owner comes across Atlanteans exiling some of their criminals. The guards save him from drowning and he is offered citizenship. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Christopher Rule |
Inks | Christopher Rule |
Notes | Pencil credit of J. Makowski? and ink credit of Hy Fleishman removed based on information from Tom Lammers and the Atlas/Timely discussion list. |
Characters | Franz; Ivan |
Synopsis | Two criminals hijack an airplane full of strangely emotionless passengers. The airplane is piloted remotely into the parallel world that the passengers came from, where the air will drain the pilots' emotions. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Ruben Moreira |
Inks | Ruben Moreira |
Characters | Sam Barlow |
Synopsis | A convict creates a melting pot to free himself from jail to steal gold, but the pot melts the gold and leaves him trapped in molten metal. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | John Forte |
Inks | John Forte |
Characters | Chuck; Gus Farrell; Capt. Zingle |
Synopsis | A teenager working at an amusement park to help support his family is kind to a mysterious boy, and finds himself rewarded with a real trip to outer space. |
Genre | science fiction |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Text story with illustrations. All future reprints of "Rocket Time" are under this title. |
Reprinted | from World of Suspense (Marvel, 1956 series) #3 (August 1956) [originally titled "Rocket Time"]; in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #15 (January 1961); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008) |
Characters | Danny; Uncle George |
Synopsis | A young boy imagines that he has a rich uncle who suddenly appears, but when he begins to doubt, the uncle fades away. |
Genre | occult |
Pencils | Don Perlin |
Inks | Don Perlin |