Tales to Astonish Vol 1 21

Alternate Covers:
	Vintage
	Published
	July, 1961
"Trull! The Inhuman!"
	Writer Stan Lee; Larry Lieber; Penciler Jack Kirby; Inker Dick Ayers; Colourist Stan Goldberg; Letterer Artie Simek;
"Time Machine"
	Letterer typeset;
"It Happened on "The Silent Screen""
	Writer Stan Lee; Penciler Steve Ditko; Inker Steve Ditko; Colourist Stan Goldberg; Letterer Artie Simek;
"Open Wider, Please!"
	Writer Stan Lee; Larry Lieber; Penciler Don Heck; Inker Don Heck; Colourist Stan Goldberg; Letterer Artie Simek;

Appearing in "Trull! The Inhuman!"

Featured Characters:

Phil

Supporting Characters:

Gloria
Bart Hanson

Antagonists:

Trull the Inhuman (First appearance)

Other Characters

Rajah (First appearance)

Locations:

Africa

Vehicles:

Spaceship

Synopsis for "Trull! The Inhuman!"

The mental essence of an alien bent on global conquest takes over a steam shovel and is defeated by an elephant. The story differs from others like it because the hero does not gladly win the affection of the previously shrew-acting female, but instead gives her the cold shoulder. Someone must have told Stan "It's about time."

Appearing in "Time Machine"

Appearances not yet listed

Synopsis for "Time Machine"

Synopsis not yet written.

Appearing in "It Happened on "The Silent Screen""

Antagonists:

Glop (The Hulk) (First appearance)

Locations:

Movie Theatre

Synopsis for "It Happened on "The Silent Screen""

An infinite loop story about a monster who repeatedly steps out of a movie screen. Stan must have wondered about the appeal of this type of story because he specifically asks for reader comment at the end of it.

Appearing in "Open Wider, Please!"

Featured Characters:

Dentist/ Robots of Venus

Supporting Characters:

Mr Smith/ Robot of Mars
Nurse

Synopsis for "Open Wider, Please!"

A dentist suspicious of a patient discovers the man is actually a martian robot invader, the man is barelly able to defeat him but them reveals himself as another conquering robot but from Venus

Notes

"Trull the Inhuman" reprinted in Creatures on the Loose #10

"The Silent Screen" reprinted in Where Monsters Dwell #8

Trivia

First issue of this series to feature the MC logo on the cover.

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