Cover: Jack Kirby & Christopher Rule

Tales to Astonish #4

Jul 1959 · Marvel · 0.10 USD

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“I Was a Prisoner of the Martians!”

In "I Was a Prisoner of the Martians!", a lone intelligence operative uses a seemingly abandoned space suit as a trap to expose a gang of space pirates preying on passing freighters—only to find himself caught in a high-stakes game of deception and survival. Steve Ditko’s sharp, inventive artwork brings the eerie silence of space to life, while Jack Kirby’s dynamic cover captures the tension of the moment.

artist, inker Steve Ditko · colorist Stan Goldberg · cover Jack Kirby, Christopher Rule

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Full credits

artist, inker Steve Ditko

colorist Stan Goldberg

cover pencils Jack Kirby

cover inks Christopher Rule

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Space pirates get the idea of using an empty space suit floating in space as a decoy to lure in unsuspecting freighters to be ambushed, but an intelligence operative hides in the space suit to signal the space patrol when they get close, and together they apprehend the leader of the space pirates.

Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).