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Tales to Astonish #21

Marvel · Series began 1959 · July 1961

Dates

Cover date
July 1961
Pages
36

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #21 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

Creators

script: Stan Leepencils: Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Don Heckinks: Dick Ayers, Steve Ditko, Don Heckcolors: Stan Goldbergletters: Artie Simek

Stories

  • Trull! The Inhuman! · 7 pages

    The mental essence of an alien bent on global conquest takes over a steam shovel and is defeated by an elephant.

  • [Trull! The Inhuman!], Part 2 · 6 pages
  • Time Machine · 2 pages

    A man's fascination with history leads him to build a time machine and travel to the past, but when he sees the dangers of time travel he destroys the machine and blueprints.

  • It Happened On "The Silent Screen" · 5 pages

    An infinite loop story about a monster who repeatedly steps out of a movie screen.

  • Open Wider, Please · 5 pages

    A dentist in 2030 discovers that his patient is a robot from Mars and calls the police. The Martian robot is stopped, and the dentist is relieved, since he wants nothing to stop the infiltration of Venusian robots like him.

Reprinted in

Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Sinister Tales (1964), Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (2006), Creatures on the Loose (1971), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Where Monsters Dwell (1970), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)

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