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Cover: Jack Kirby & Dick Ayers
Tales to Astonish #39
“The Vengeance of the Scarlet Beetle!”
writer Stan Lee · artist, inker Steve Ditko · colorist Stan Goldberg · letterer Artie Simek · cover Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers
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Cast · 3 characters
Full credits
writer Stan Lee
artist, inker Steve Ditko
colorist Stan Goldberg
letterer Artie Simek
cover pencils Jack Kirby
cover inks Dick Ayers
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A boy who enjoys toy soldiers buys a new civil war figure to place in his prisoner of war stockade. That evening, he and his father are attacked by an invader from the sixth dimension. Suddenly, the lights go out, and when they turn the lights back on, the invader has disappeared. They chalk it up to some sort of unusual shared dream, and go back to sleep. The following morning when the boy wakes up and peers into his model stockade, he sees the invader languishing in the cell guarded over by the toy soldier.
Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).