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|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | $276.36 | PANEL_PROFITS · grade_4_0_valueguide | 1952-02-01 |
| 6.0 | $699.95 | PANEL_PROFITS · grade_6_0_valueguide | 1952-02-01 |
| RAW | $197.50 | PANEL_PROFITS · ungraded_valueguide | 1952-02-01 |
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CGC records 38 graded copies for Astonishing #9 (1952). Population is the number recorded by this grading source, not the total print run or all surviving copies.
The Little Black Box!
A postal employee working in the dead letter office gets a duplicator that has been lost in time from the year 2000. He makes a duplicate of himself to leave with his nagging wife, but the owner of the object shows up to take it back to the future with him. He trains the device upon our luckless protagonist and he vanishes, to be reborn in the year 2000.
| StoryTitle2 = Who Dares to Enter??? | Writer2_1 = Stan Lee | Penciler2_1 = Joe Maneely | Inker2_1 = Joe Maneely | Colorist2_1 = N/A | Letterer2_1 = Joe Letterese | Editor2_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing2 = **Featured Characters:** * Unnamed young reporter **Supporting Characters:** * Daily Globe) ** Pop ** Lefty * Jeb Kenny)
**Races and Species:** * Humans) * Ghosts **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Earth ** North America *** United States of America **** New York) ***** New York City ****** Manhattan **** Griswald Mansion
| Synopsis2 = A similar story is written in Tales to Astonish Vol 1 25.
| StoryTitle3 = Where is Death? | Writer3_1 = Don Rico | Penciler3_1 = Don Rico | Inker3_1 = Don Rico | Colorist3_1 = N/A | Letterer3_1 = Joe Letterese | Editor3_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing3 = **Featured Characters:** * Kim Larsen) **Supporting Characters:** * Captain Slade **Antagonists:** * The Devil_(Earth-616)) **Other Characters:** * Gink Farley) **Races and Species:** * Humans) * Rats * Demons **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Earth ** Central America *** Sargasso Sea ** Asia
**Vehicles:** * Bengal Queen * Eastern Moon
| Synopsis3 = The Devil_(Earth-616)) warns one of his sailor minions to get off a ship sailing the Sargasso Sea because he has rewarded his minion with immunity from death at sea in exchange for his service. The sailor laughs at the Devil's warning that there are worse things than death and tells him he's not afraid, but the ship breaks up and his body drifts forever in the Sargasso without dying.
| StoryTitle4 = Vengeance of the Time Stream | Writer4_1 = N/A | Penciler4_1 = N/A | Inker4_1 = N/A | Colorist4_1 = N/A | Letterer4_1 = Typeset | Editor4_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing4 = **Featured Characters:** * Professor Paul Gifford) **Supporting Characters:** * Professor Thomas "Tom" Hanlan)
**Other Characters:** * Nona Stevens) * Numerous unnamed reporters * Two unnamed bailiffs * Unnamed Judge **Races and Species:** * Humans) **Realities:** * Earth-616 * Earth-Unknown **Locations:** * Earth-616 ** Earth *** North America **** United States of America ***** Oliver University * Earth-Unknown **Items:** * Time Machine
| Synopsis4 = Paul Gifford) was a scientist who was once a close friend of Tom Hanlan), another scientist, who over time began to hate him greatly as he had managed to surpass him in everything that Paul wanted to achieve, as head of the physics faculty where they both taught and the love of Nona Stevens) who they had both met who eventually married Tom. Together they had built a time machine, although the bulk of the recognition would go to Tom, and on the day of testing the machine there was a great reception, but inside the laboratory where the machine was, Paul pulled a gun on Tom, killing him and then fled in 300 years in the future. Upon arriving in the future however, Paul found himself inside a courthouse specially built for him upon his arrival, as they knew exactly when and where he would arrive, and was put on trial for the murder of Thomas Hanlan.
| StoryTitle5 = The Luck of Louie Nugent | Writer5_1 = N/A | Penciler5_1 = Marty Elkin | Inker5_1 = Mike Esposito | Colorist5_1 = N/A | Letterer5_1 = N/A | Editor5_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing5 = **Featured Characters:** * Louie Nugent) **Supporting Characters:** * Unnamed General * General John Nugent) **Antagonists:** * Nazis) **Other Characters:** * Louie's mother) * Jimmy * United States Army) (flashback) ** Cahill_(Earth-616)) **Races and Species:** * Humans) (flashback) **Realities:** * Earth-616 (flashback) **Locations:** * Earth (flashback) ** North America (flashback) *** United States of America (flashback) **** Hawaii) ***** Pearl Harbor ** Europe *** France **** Normandy
**Events:** * Christmas * World War II
| Synopsis5 = A child is born as a jinx and is there at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attack. He tells his commanding officer in the army that he feels all his life his bad luck has been building towards a terrible climax so he is defecting to the Germans in order to curse them. As the war draws to a close, the officer writes a letter to the boy's father explaining his defection and his belief that the strange curse may have aided in bringing about an allied victory.
| StoryTitle6 = The Scientists! | Writer6_1 = N/A | Penciler6_1 = Harry Lazarus | Inker6_1 = George Klein | Colorist6_1 = N/A | Letterer6_1 = Joe Letterese | Editor6_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing6 = **Featured Characters:** * Smith) **Supporting Characters:** * Miller) * Green)
**Other Characters:** * J.W. Winters) * Alexander the Great) **Races and Species:** * Humans) * Dinosaurs **Locations:** * Earth-Unknown ** Earthspace *** Earth **** North America ***** United States of America **** Europe ***** Ancient Greece ** Heaven) **Items:** * Time Machine
| Synopsis6 = A similar story is written in Amazing Adult Fantasy Vol 1 10.
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| Notes = ===Publication Notes== * "Vengeance of the Time Stream" is reprinted as "The Sentence!" in Uncanny Tales Vol 1 11.
| Trivia = | Recommended = | Links =
Creative credits
Writers: Hank Chapman, Stan Lee, Don Rico, N/A, N/A, N/A
Interior art: Bob Fujitani, Joe Maneely, Don Rico, N/A, Marty Elkin, Harry Lazarus
Color: N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A
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