Best Place to Sell Astonishing #54

Publisher: Marvel, 1956

About Astonishing #54

Bill Everett cover. Bob Brown art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: When the Walls Close In!

Pencils: Bill Everett

Inks: Bill Everett

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Letters: typeset

Notes: Credit information from www.atlastales.com. Color credit per Stan Goldberg.

STORY DETAILS

(7 Stories)

Title: The Old Man's Secret!

Synopsis: A man crosses the mountains of Tibet in order to gain the secret of immortality. He meets a young man and an old man and convinces the young man to let him take the old man back to civilization with him in order to analyze his body chemistry. When he gets back, his friend, whom has met the couple before, tells him that he brought back the wrong man. He brought back the immortal man's son.

Pages: 5.000

Pencils: John Giunta (signed) [as JG]

Inks: John Giunta (signed) [as JG]

Reprints: Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #16 (April 1975)

Notes: John Giunta credit changed based on information from www.atlastales.com. [Mike Nielsen 3/2010]. Sid Greene credit changed back to John Giunta based on signature [JG, not SG] and style [Giunta's not Greene's. [Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. 11/19/2014] Credit information from www.atlastales.com.

Title: Nightmare at Noon!

Synopsis: When a woman threatens to leave a man unless he sells his island for cash, he has a vision of a woman being threatened by pirates. He defeats the pirates, and as a reward she gives him a ring and a promise to return someday as the vision fades. When he comes to he finds he still has the ring and the client the real estate broker brings in to show the island is the spitting image of the woman from his vision.

Pages: 4.000

Pencils: Frank Frazetta [as Angelo Torres] (signed)

Inks: Frank Frazetta [as Angelo Torres] (signed)

Reprints: Worlds Unknown (Marvel, 1973 series) #1 (May 1973)

Notes: Previously credited to Angelo Torres, per signature, but the artwork is pure Frazetta.

Title: Man with Wings!

Synopsis: Leonardo Da Vinci has nightmares about being able to fly.

Pages: 4.000

Script: Carl Wessler

Pencils: Bob Forgione

Inks: Jack Abel

Notes: Credit information from www.atlastales.com. Wessler credit from his record books, per Robin Snyder's the Comics, Vol 25, No. 6, June 2014.

Title: No Trespassing!

Synopsis: When a rich man finds a beam of light shining on his property with healing properties, he fences it off and charges five thousand dollars for access. The beam turns out to be an alien weapon test and, when increased to full power, wipes out the man's estate reducing him to poverty.

Pages: 4.000

Pencils: Hy Fleishman

Inks: Hy Fleishman

Notes: Credit information from www.atlastales.com.

Title: Discovery

Characters: Chauncey; Zeke; Muscles Magee

Synopsis: A scrawny man is given a magic candy bar that confers great strength, but he discovers that he already posesses more strength than he suspects.

Pages: 2.000

Pencils: Marie Severin

Inks: Marie Sevein

Letters: typeset

Reprints: Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #42 (June 1963), | Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #105 (February 1963), | Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #83 (August 1962), | Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #86 (July 1961), | Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #67 (February 1959)

Notes: Text story with illustration. Joe Maneely credit changed based on information from www.atlastales.com. [Mike Nielsen 3/2010]

Title: When the Walls Close In!

Synopsis: An escaped war criminal feels claustrophobia until his guilt makes him confess.

Pages: 4.000

Pencils: Bob Brown

Inks: Bob Brown

Reprints: Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #9 (April 1975)

Notes: Credit information from www.atlastales.com.

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