Tales to Astonish #19
In *Tales to Astonish* #19, a mobster’s superstitious fear takes a bizarre turn when he buys a pincushion doll meant to represent his rival—only to become convinced the doll truly suffers his pain. When he hurls it from a skyscraper, the twist of fate reveals a chilling deception: the doll was never meant to be a target, but a trap. Written by Stan Lee and Larry Lieber, with art by Don Heck and coloring by Stan Goldberg, this eerie 1961 tale blends crime and the uncanny, all wrapped in Jack Kirby’s dynamic cover art and Dick Ayers’ sharp inks.
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A gangster buys a pincushion doll that looks like his rival, and his reactions to pins stuck in it convince him that it works. He throws the doll out the window of a tall building, but his rival has altered the doll to look like him instead.
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