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Tales to Astonish#20
Cover: Jack Kirby
Tales to Astonish #20
“What Was "X" the Thing That Lived! [, Part 1]”
writer Stan Lee · artist, inker Steve Ditko · colorist Stan Goldberg · letterer Artie Simek · cover Jack Kirby
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Full credits
writer Stan Lee
artist, inker Steve Ditko
colorist Stan Goldberg
letterer Artie Simek
cover pencils, inks Jack Kirby
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A heartless tycoon spends great resources and eliminates jobs in order to build a machine that will transport him from the current moment to one forty years hence because his scientists have predicted an end to disease, war, and poverty in the year 2001, but he neglects to consider his body will age forty years in what seems to his mind merely an instant and, since the machine has only enough power to move forward the one time, he's lost most of the years of his life.
Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).