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Issue: Tales to Astonish #61

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Publication Date: November 1964

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Issues: #61 of 101 Issues (131 Printings)

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Variant: UK Cover Price

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

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Volume: 1

Pages: 36

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Price: none entered

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
4 (2 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): Stan Lee

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Silver Age U.S.

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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Tales to Astonish #61 [U.S. Cover Price]

Tales to Astonish #61 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (4 total)

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Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Giant-Man [Henry Pym]; Wasp [Janet van Dyne]; The Android

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Pages: 1

Now Walks the Android

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Giant-Man [Henry Pym]; Wasp [Janet van Dyne]; Egghead [Elihas Starr]; Egghead's Android

First Line: Atta girl, little partner!

Synopsis: Egghead uses a simple clothing store dummy to create a giant and powerful android which he plans on controlling mentally as it battles and defeats Giant-Man. He entices his arch-foe into his trap with the promise of a television series based on his heroic exploits (actually, it is Jan who is pretty keen on getting Hank into show biz).

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Pages: 14

Notes: Joe Orlando originally drew this story but refused to make changes demanded by Stan Lee so Steve Ditko came in and did extensive changes to the original art. Info from Mark Evanier via Fred Hembeck.

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Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

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First Line: Dear Stan and Dick, On about March 6th my ship pulled into Oak Harbor, Whitbey Island, Washington.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Letters from Blair Ireland, Gary Smith, Sandii Woods, John Harwood, Doug Kopp, Barney Gorin, Clark Mello and a special announcements section.

Captured at Last!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Thunderbolt Ross; Betty Ross; Major Glenn Talbot (first appearance); Banner Bot

First Line: You've finally met your master, Hulk!

Synopsis: The Hulk takes on the indestructible Banner created robot and, in one of the more dubious plot devices in comics, succeeds in kicking him down a bottomless hole when he realizes that he cannot beat the machine. Glenn Talbot arrives on gamma base sent by the Pentagon to keep an eye on the suspicious activity of Bruce Banner. Glenn decides that keeping an eye on Betty seems like a good idea as well. The Hulk is felled while saving Gamma Base from a missile and Ross captures him in a special restraint built by Bruce Banner based on a design by Tony Stark.

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Pages: 10

Job Number: X-794

Notes: In the "What's My Name" department, Glen, or was that Glenn Talbot makes his debut in this issue and his name is spelled both ways within back to back story panels; It takes a good ten issues before the name settles down to only using one "N" as his name is spelled both ways interchangeably until then; Over time, the second "N" was added again and has become the standard spelling. Major Talbot refers to Betty Ross as "Miss Brant" in one panel.