Tales to Astonish #43

Dates

Cover date

May 1963

On sale

February 5, 1963

Pages

36

Editions and covers (3)

Copies of #43 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

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

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Creators

Stories

• The Mad Master of Time! · 13 pages

  A scientist forced to retire makes a device to artificially age others and holds the city hostage. Ant-Man can't stop him, but when he accidentally ages his own grandson he repents and reverses the damage.

• Lady Luck · 2 pages

  A businessman doesn’t believe in luck, but several beneficial encounters with an old lady change his mind.

• Frankie's Fast Ball! · 5 pages

  A boy gains extraordinary physical and mental abilities due to his parents' exposure to radiation. He wants to play baseball, but his fastball punches a hole in a tree and would damage a catcher.

• My Fatal Mistake! · 5 pages

  A man is bitter because he has been replaced by a computer and must take a job servicing it. It is ensconced in an air-tight clean room with a door that is opened after fifteen minutes allotted for servicing purposes. When the man enters the room, he gets the idea to sabotage the machine so that it will make mistakes and he can get his old job back, but he damages the circuits that allow the machine to open the door after the fifteen minutes of oxygen are used up.

Characters

Reprinted in

Hulk Comic (1979), Creepy Worlds (1962), Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (2006), 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), Ant-Man: Ant-iversary (2023)