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Issue: Tales to Astonish #40

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Publication Date: February 1963

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Detail

Issues: #40 of 101 Issues (131 Printings)

Title:

Variant: UK Cover Price

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

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Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications, Inc.

On Sale Date: 11/08/1962

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN:

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Price: 9.0 pence GBQ 0-0-9

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
5 (4 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): Stan Lee

Notes: The on-sale date is the publication date reported in U. S. Copyright Office filings.

Distributed to newstands in November 1962. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.

Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

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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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2 Tales to Astonish #40 [U.S. Cover Price]

Tales to Astonish #40 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (5 total)

The Day the Ant-Man Failed!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Ant-Man [Henry Pym]

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Pages: 1

The Day That Ant-Man Failed!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Ant-Man [Henry Pym]; Hijacker [Howard Mitchell]

First Line: Our startling Ant-Man tale begins with Henry Pym!

Synopsis: Ant-Man investigates a series of hijackings. He pretends to be sick to lure the hijacker into the open, and finds out that it's the owner of the armored car company.

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Pages: 11

Job Number: X-23

I Was Trapped in the Mad Universe!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Tommy Jordan; Phil Jordan; Ginger

First Line: I'm telling the truth!

Synopsis: A boy finds a device from the future that transports him to an alternate dimension with nearly identical versions of him and his family.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Job Number: X-24

Bird Talk

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Writer(s): ?

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Inker(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Tony Tipple; Skeets Mulligan; Toodles Murphy; bird census taker

First Line: All the kids on the block were getting parakeets.

Synopsis: A meeting with a strange man gives a boy an unusual way of getting a pet bird, talking to birds.

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Pages: 2

Job Number: [K-424]

Notes: Text story with illustration.

The Worst Man on Earth!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Hogarr

First Line: This is Hogarr, arch-criminal of the year 2000!

Synopsis: A criminal in the year 2000 is sentenced to be exiled from humanity for his various crimes as the death penalty has been abolished. He mocks his accusers since he has prepared a micro-drill built into his finger that will get the door of his cell open eventually. When he does succeed in getting it open, he wishes he hadn't, as it turns out his cell had been placed in orbit around the planet.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: X-25