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Issue: Tales to Astonish #28
Publication Date: February 1962
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Issues: #28 of 101 Issues (131 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: MCView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/09/1962
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 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 November 1961 (November 9 according to Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website, November 14 according to Bob Bailey). There is a known copy of this issue with the stamped arrival date of 9 November.

On sale date from the publication date reported to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Volume 15, Part 2, Number 2, Periodicals, July-December 1961. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number B934595.

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 In15
Disclose Reprinted From1
reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images2
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
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I Am the Gorilla-Man!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Gorilla-Man [Franz Radzik]
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFear #5 published November 1971
as I Am the Gorilla Man! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #157 published January 1975
as I Am the Gorilla-Man! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #3 [Regular Edition] published March 2010
as Tales to Astonish #28 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGorilla Man #2 published October 2010
as Tales to Astonish #28 cover [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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I Am the... Gorilla-Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Gorilla-Man [Franz Radzik]
First Line: You... come closer...
Synopsis: An inventor transfers his mind into a gorilla to commit crimes, but the gorilla controlling his body turns against him.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFear #5 published November 1971
as I Am the... Gorilla-Man [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #3 [Regular Edition] published March 2010
as I Am the... Gorilla-Man [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGorilla Man #2 published October 2010
as I Am the... Gorilla-Man [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: V-488
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The Green Hat

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Axtel; George; Chuck
First Line: George is a guy who knows more about flying saucers and Mars men than all...
Synopsis: A recent graduate meets a strange man and finds that they share a gift to commune with the Green Goddess.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #3 [Regular Edition] published March 2010
as The Green Hat [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagMystery Tales #32 published August 1955
was The Green Hat [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: G-537
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Midnight on Haunted Hill

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Billy Jones/Brown (last name inconsistent)
First Line: All boys like to read astonishing fiction!
Synopsis: A boy sees an alien landing, but no one believes him until the spaceship comes back. They didn't realize that a tree on a hill was really an alien being.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreatures on the Loose #13 published September 1971
as Midnight on Haunted Hill [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #183 published January 1980
as Midnight on Haunted Hill [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #3 [Regular Edition] published March 2010
as Midnight on Haunted Hill [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-489
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The Scheme!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, horror
Character(s): John Bentley; Anne Wentworth
First Line: This may look like a love story!
Synopsis: An insolvent cad marries a rich widow dying of a terminal sickness for her money, but finds when she dies that the disease is contagious and he has only months to live.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #3 [Regular Edition] published March 2010
as The Scheme! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-480
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The Frightening Fog

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: It is morning!
Synopsis: A mysterious fog envelops the entire world for days, terrifying everyone. It was actually created by benevolent alien peacekeepers to hide Earth from an invasion.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #13 published January 1972
as The Frightening Fog [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #3 [Regular Edition] published March 2010
as The Frightening Fog [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #23 published ?
as The Frightening Fog [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: ?

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