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Issue Details

Issue #47
Published May 1956
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Pencils John Forte
Inks John Forte
Notes Forte credits by Michael J. Vassallo , 2002-12-03 (Per Sandell ed.)

4 page story "The Man Who Could Do Anything"

Pencils Dick Ayers
Inks Dick Ayers

4 page story "The Magic Mixture"

2 page text story "Patent Pending"

Characters Joe; Timothy Braun
Synopsis A teenager is inventing a mechanical potato peeler, but a supernatural figure stops him to preserve the culture of hand-peeling potatoes in kitchens.
Genre occult
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Astonishing (Marvel, 1951 series) #58 (February 1957) [as "The Inventor"]; in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #6 (November 1959); in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #22 (August 1961); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)

4 page story "It Happened at Night"

Pencils John Forte
Inks John Forte

4 page story "Just One More Chance"

3 page story "The One They Left Behind!"

4 page story "The Eager Stranger"

Pencils Bill Benulis
Inks Bill Benulis