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Tales to Astonish #14

Marvel · Series began 1959 · December 1960

Dates

Cover date
December 1960
On sale
July 27, 1960
Pages
36

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #14 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

Creators

script: Stan Leepencils: Jack Kirby, Marie Severin, Steve Ditko, Don Heckcolors: Stan Goldbergletters: Artie Simekinks: Dick Ayers, Marie Severin, Steve Ditko, Don Heck

Stories

  • I Created Krang! The Most Fantastic Monster The World Has Ever Known!, Chapter One · 7 pages

    A scientist's formula makes an ant giant and super-intelligent. The ant wants to conquer the world, but is killed by a giant ant-eater.

  • Krang!: Chapter Two · 6 pages
  • The Remedy Oil · 2 pages

    An old-fashioned shopkeeper unwittingly saves the life of a boy from Mechanica when her remedy oil lubricates the gears in his brain.

  • Behold! I Am the Master of Time! · 5 pages

    In a black magic book, a thief finds instructions for creating a time machine which runs on electricity, but after robbing people in the 18th century and attempting to return to the 20th, he realizes he is stuck in the past because there is no electricity in the 18th century.

  • The Thing in Human Form! · 5 pages

    A Martian is sent to Earth to kidnap a human scientist who has invented a weapon that Mars wants to use against Jupiter. The Martian is beaten by the scientist, who turns out to be a Jovian agent setting a trap to capture a live Martian.

Reprinted in

Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (2006), Creepy Worlds (1962), Fear (1970), Weird Wonder Tales (1973), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Spellbound Album (1964), Tower of Shadows (1969), Chamber of Darkness (1969), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019), The Stan Lee Story (2026)

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