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Publisher: Marvel, 1957

About Astonishing #63

Last issue of the title. Bill Everett cover.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: Piece of Rope!

Pencils: Bill Everett (signed)

Inks: Bill Everett (signed)

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Letters: typeset

Notes: Coloring credit confirmed by Goldberg.

STORY DETAILS

(7 Stories)

Title: A Tender Tale of Love

Synopsis: A man looking to marry money rents a room in a house where all the occupants are ghosts. When he falls for one of the tenants and she tells him he has a rival, he tries to murder the rival, but fails because he's already dead.

Pages: 4.000

Script: Carl Wessler

Pencils: Richard Doxsee (signed)

Inks: Richard Doxsee (signed)

Notes: Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas-Timely discussion group. Wessler script per Nick Caputo from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.

Title: The Secret Beyond Belief!

Synopsis: A scientist invents a rejuvenation process and a fellow scientist wants him to share it with the world, but the man refuses because the creative people who have gone through the process are no longer productive as they have all the time in the world to perfect their craft but never finish anything.

Pages: 4.000

Pencils: George Woodbridge (signed)

Inks: George Woodbridge (signed)

Reprints: Tomb of Darkness (Marvel, 1974 series) #17 (November 1975)

Notes: Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas-Timely discussion group.

Title: The Terrible Toy!

Synopsis: People fear aliens who have appeared in the skies, but when a father seeks a lost toy for a beloved son, the humans realize that their shared bonds of compassion unite them and the aliens.

Pages: 4.000

Pencils: Bob Forgione (signed)

Inks: Bob Forgione (signed)

Notes: Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas-Timely discussion group.

Title: The Room That Wasn't There

Synopsis: A man sees a reflection of himself in a mirror thirty years hence occupying a dingy room and resolves to change his destiny through acquiring money by crime. He is arrested and sentenced to life in jail where he realizes the mirror had displayed to him his jail cell.

Pages: 3.000

Pencils: Don Perlin (signed)

Inks: Don Perlin (signed)

Notes: Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas-Timely discussion group.

Title: A Piece of Rope!

Synopsis: A mountain climber is bothered by guilt when he cuts a rope securing him to his partner who fell, so he goes back to retrieve the body, only to find that his partner survived the fall. At this time, the rope that he been unable to remove from himself, drops off.

Pages: 4.000

Pencils: Bob Forgione

Inks: Jack Abel

Notes: Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas-Timely discussion group.

Title: The Girl with the Evil Eyes!

Synopsis: A man finds a voodoo amulet that is said to allow one to see into the future. He has a dream that his brother will introduce him to a woman he plans to marry, but the girl is evil and tries to seduce the other brother into killing his brother so that she can marry him and inherit the money. After he wakes up, the dream events play out in real life up to the point the man introduces the girl to his brother, but the story ends asking the reader what the brother should do.

Pages: 4.000

Pencils: Fred Kida

Inks: Fred Kida

Reprints: Chamber of Chills (Marvel, 1972 series) #21 (March 1976)

Notes: Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas-Timely discussion group.

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	NG	PG	CVR	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	1	1	2	0	3	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
CGCxJSA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	1	1	2	0	3	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11

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