Tales to Astonish #39

Dates

Cover date

January 1963

On sale

October 2, 1962

Pages

36

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #39 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

• Original edition12¢ cover

  Source ↗
• UK pence edition9d [0-0-9 GBP] cover

  British

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

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Creators

Stories

• The Vengeance of the Scarlet Beetle! · 10 pages

  Ant-Man fights a beetle made super-intelligent by radiation. It uses Ant-Man's growth gas to become giant, but he is able to defeat it.

• 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.

• Ozamm the Terrible! · 8 pages

  A factory worker laid off to be replaced by a machine foils a seemingly invincible alien by cutting off his power source.

• The Toy Soldiers · 5 pages

  A boy who enjoys toy soldiers buys a new civil war figure to place in his prisoner of war stockade. That evening, he and his father are attacked by an invader from the sixth dimension. Suddenly, the lights go out, and when they turn the lights back on, the invader has disappeared. They chalk it up to some sort of unusual shared dream, and go back to sleep. The following morning when the boy wakes up and peers into his model stockade, he sees the invader languishing in the cell guarded over by the toy soldier.

Characters

Reprinted in

Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Hulk Comic (1979), Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (2006), Creepy Worlds (1962), Out of This World (1963), Marvel Tales (1966), Where Monsters Dwell (1970), Uncanny Tales (1973), Marvel Tales (1977), Essential Ant-Man (2002), Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man (2006), Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man (2013), Ant-Man / Giant-Man Epic Collection (2015), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)