Tales to Astonish#4(1959)

A bullying director is kidnapped by Martians using the science fiction movie he's filming as a cover. They're forced to land because of a malfunction, and explain that they'll have to let him go...if one of the actors or crew that he abused tries to rescue him.

A man with no imagination is invited to a costume party by his girlfriend, but stumbles across real fairy-tale folk instead.

A painter buys a magic brush with the power to make three paintings become real. He makes himself handsome and a famous painter. Finally he makes himself dictator of a European country, but one of his paintings inspires the people to revolt and depose him, leaving him imprisoned.

An inventor accidentally makes time stand still, leaving himself the only person able to move. He robs everyone before restarting time, but it turns out all the frozen people could see what he did and he is arrested.

A man always drawn to the sea falls in love with a mermaid. When he dives under the water to pursue her, he realizes that he is also a merman, and his yearning for the sea was a yearning for home.

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.

Iron Man stops Battleaxe from stealing uranium by offering him Hostess Fruit Pies instead.