CATALOG RECORD

Tales to Astonish #33

Marvel · Series began 1959 · July 1962

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Dates

Cover date: July 1962
On sale: April 3, 1962
Pages: 36

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #33 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

Original edition12¢ cover
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UK pence edition9d [0-0-9 GBP] cover

British

Printed cover price 9d [0-0-9 GBP].
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Creators

script: Stan Leepencils: Jack Kirby, Don Heck, Steve Ditkoinks: Paul Reinman, Dick Ayers, Don Heck, Steve Ditkocolors: Stan Goldbergletters: Artie Simek, Joe Letterese

Stories

Dead Storage · 7 pages
A burnt-out actor stumbles upon an alien invasion, and gives the best performance of his life to save Earth.
The Comic · 2 pages
A bored television comedian is mysteriously transported back to the small mining town and small theatres that he loves.
The Frightened Man! · 6 pages
A scientist tries to use a time machine to escape the dangers of the modern world, but he finds that every era has its dangers.
The Voice of Fate! · 5 pages
The Fates make a wager over whether humans will ever understand that they cannot escape them. One of them tells a jewel thief that he will be punished, but he defies fate and flees the country, thinking that since the US is in World War II he will never be found and punished in Hiroshima.
The Absent-Minded Professor! · 5 pages
A college professor is certain that life exists upon other worlds, but can't quite remember why he is so assured of this fact. One evening he is abducted by aliens and he receives his answer. The aliens tell him the reason for his abduction is that years ago the aliens sent a spy to Earth, but failed to hear back from him, and the captain of the spaceship realizes that he should not have sent an absent-minded spy. The professor realizes that he is the alien spy.

Reprinted in

Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (2006), Weird Planets (1962), Creepy Worlds (1962), Creatures on the Loose (1971), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Mystic (1960), Out of This World (1963), Sinister Tales (1964), Fear (1970), Crypt of Shadows (1973), Creatures on the Loose (1975), Doctor Who Weekly (1979), Out of This World (1981), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)