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Cover: Bill Everett

Astonishing #54

Oct 1956 · Marvel · 0.10 USD
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“The Old Man's Secret!”

In "The Old Man's Secret!" from Astonishing #54 (1956), a man facing the loss of his island home has a startling vision of a woman in peril at sea—only to wake with a mysterious ring and a cryptic promise. When a real estate broker arrives to show the property, she bears an uncanny resemblance to the woman from his dream. Penciled and inked by Angelo Torres, with lettering by Joe Rosen, this eerie tale unfolds in a 10-cent comic from 1956, its cover by Bill Everett capturing the moment’s haunting mystery.

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artist, inker Angelo Torres · letterer Joe Rosen · cover Bill Everett

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artist, inker Angelo Torres
letterer Joe Rosen
cover pencils, inks Bill Everett

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When a woman threatens to leave a man unless he sells his island for cash, he has a vision of a woman being threatened by pirates. He defeats the pirates, and as a reward she gives him a ring and a promise to return someday as the vision fades. When he comes to he finds he still has the ring and the client the real estate broker brings in to show the island is the spitting image of the woman from his vision.

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