Tales to Astonish #20
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeMarvel's early-'60s anthology of sci-fi shocks delivers a genuinely unsettling cover here: a massive, snarling orange creature known as "X — The Thing That Lived" looms over a terrified man in a green suit, enormous clawed hands reaching forward as two more figures flee in the background amid a shattered urban landscape. Jack Kirby's cover art captures that perfect balance of dread and wonder that made Tales to Astonish such a compelling newsstand presence in 1961. With Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, and Stan Goldberg bringing the interior to life, this ten-cent package packs a remarkable amount of talent into one unforgettable issue.
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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.
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