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Issue: Tales to Astonish #15
Publication Date: January 1961
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Issues: #15 of 101 Issues (131 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/1960
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newsstands in August 1960. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. All new stories in this issue are narrated in the first person.

Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
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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
Format Notes:  
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
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The Blip!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Blip
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #2 [Regular Edition] published March 2008
as Tales to Astonish #15 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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I Learned the Dread Secret of the Blip!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Blip
First Line: The electricity--it's coming from the cave!
Synopsis: A power drain and radar anomaly is traced to a creature made of electricity hiding in a cave. It claims to be a friendly visitor, but humans attack it and it flees into space.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFear #2 published January 1971
as I Learned the Dread Secret of the Blip! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGiant-Size Man-Thing #2 published November 1974
as I Learned the Dread Secret of the Blip! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMonster Masterworks #[nn] published January 1989
as I Learned the Dread Secret of the Blip! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #2 [Regular Edition] published March 2008
as I Learned the Dread Secret of the Blip! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: T-943
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The Free Ride

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Chuck; Gus Farrell; Capt. Zingle
First Line: The first week that Chuck worked for the Palace Amusement Park was pretty wonderful.
Synopsis: A teenager working at an amusement park to help support his family is kind to a mysterious boy, and finds himself rewarded with a real trip to outer space.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #2 [Regular Edition] published March 2008
as The Free Ride [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #63 published June 1958
was The Free Ride [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-91
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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I Dared Enter the Forbidden World!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Derek; John; Monga; Uxmal; Antogg
First Line: Africa! Land of mystery--of undreamed-of secrets!
Synopsis: A white game hunter finds the legendary elephant's graveyard, hoping to make a fortune in ivory. He discovers that elephants were introduced to Earth by Martians, who use the graveyard as a gathering point for the ivory, and won't let him leave.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFear #2 published January 1971
as I Dared Enter the Forbidden World! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuper Giant #[nn] published January 1973
as I Dared Enter the Forbidden World [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGiant-Size Man-Thing #2 published November 1974
as I Dared Enter the Forbidden World! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #2 [Regular Edition] published March 2008
as I Dared Enter the Forbidden World! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: T-952
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I Am the Invisible!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Prof. Karlos Konak; Zuka
First Line: Yes I, and I alone, am... the invisible!!
Synopsis: A man threatens a witch unless she hands over two lenses which will make him invisible. She implores him not to try it, but relinquishes the lens. They can be reversed to make the invisible visible once again, but what the man did not expect is that when he becomes invisible to the outside world, the outside world in turn becomes invisible to him.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagChamber of Darkness #8 [unnamed variant] published December 1970
as I Am The Invisible! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #199 published January 1984
as I Am the Invisible! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #2 [Regular Edition] published March 2008
as I Am the Invisible! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-951
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I Defied the Curse of Tut-Ah-Anka!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
First Line: I've been in and out of trouble all my life!
Synopsis: A criminal hides from the police in an old Egyptian tomb, ignoring the warning of a curse. He not only escapes the police, but has a run of luck that makes him rich and happy. Or so he thinks, as the gas in the tomb drove him mad and he is delusional in an Egyptian hospital.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFear #2 published January 1971
as I Defied the Curse of Tut-Ah-Anka! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #199 published January 1984
as I Defied the Curse of Tut-Ah-Anka! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #2 [Regular Edition] published March 2008
as I Defied the Curse of Tut-Ah-Anka! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-933

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