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Issue: Tales to Astonish #20
Publication Date: June 1961
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Issues: #20 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: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in March 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.
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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:  
Disclose Reprinted In20
Disclose Reprinted From1
reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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I Was Hunted By "X" the Thing That Lived!!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): X
First Line: Evacuate the city!!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFear #2 published January 1971
as X the Thing that Lived!! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #2 [Regular Edition] published March 2008
as Tales to Astonish #20 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMisterios del Gato Negro #151 published ?
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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What Was "X" the Thing That Lived! [, Part 1]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Charles Bentley; X (introduction, origin)
First Line: Charles Bentley was a writer!
Synopsis: A comic writer's monsters keep coming to life, until he creates one that can't be defeated. The monster is unstoppable physically, but he wills it out of existence.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagZombie #9 published January 1961
as What Was "X", the Thing That Lived! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFear #2 published January 1971
as What Was "X" the Thing That Lived! [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 1
In Content Item: FlagMonster Masterworks #[nn] published January 1989
as What Was "X" The Thing That Lived! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #2 [Regular Edition] published March 2008
as What Was "X" the Thing That Lived! [, Part 1] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-185
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. X next appears in Alpha Flight (Marvel, 1997 series) #17 (December 1998). The unnamed editor of Tales to Astonish appears in the story.
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[What Was "X" the Thing That Lived!], Part 2

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Charles Bentley; X
First Line: Bentley hurried into the projection room, sat down, and then...
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFear #2 published January 1971
as What Was "X" the Thing That Lived! [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 2
In Content Item: FlagMonster Masterworks #[nn] published January 1989
as What Was "X" The Thing That Lived! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #2 [Regular Edition] published March 2008
as [What Was "X" the Thing That Lived!], Part 2 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-185
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[What Was "X" the Thing That Lived!], Part 3

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Charles Bentley; X
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFear #2 published January 1971
as What Was "X" the Thing That Lived! [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 3
In Content Item: FlagMonster Masterworks #[nn] published January 1989
as What Was "X" The Thing That Lived! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #2 [Regular Edition] published March 2008
as [What Was "X" the Thing That Lived!], Part 3 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: V-185
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[What Was "X" the Thing That Lived!], Part 4

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Charles Bentley; X
First Line: Charles Bentley, aware that only he could stop the menacing X, drove swiftly back to the city!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFear #2 published January 1971
as What Was "X" the Thing That Lived! [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 4
In Content Item: FlagMonster Masterworks #[nn] published January 1989
as What Was "X" The Thing That Lived! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #2 [Regular Edition] published March 2008
as [What Was "X" the Thing That Lived!], Part 4 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-185
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Odd Skills

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Jim Branner; Bill Toney
First Line: When a man who has been very competent suddenly becomes slipshod, there's usually a reason.
Synopsis: The manager of an auto parts shop develops a sudden tolerance for "human variation" in parts, possibly linked to otherworldly strangers in the shop at night.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #2 [Regular Edition] published March 2008
as Odd Skills [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #34 published May 1956
was Odd Skills [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: J-216
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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One-Way Journey!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Adam Gree
First Line: Adam Gree's success would have satisfied anyone else!
Synopsis: A heartless tycoon spends great resources and eliminates jobs in order to build a machine that will transport him from the current moment to one forty years hence because his scientists have predicted an end to disease, war, and poverty in the year 2001, but he neglects to consider his body will age forty years in what seems to his mind merely an instant and, since the machine has only enough power to move forward the one time, he's lost most of the years of his life.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFear #2 published January 1971
as One-Way Journey! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDoomsday #12 published November 1973
as One-Way Journey! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #2 [Regular Edition] published March 2008
as One-Way Journey! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-184

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