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Issue: Astonishing Tales #20
Publication Date: October 1973
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Issues: #20 of 36 Issues (70 Printings)
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Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.20 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 7 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Roy Thomas
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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
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): John Romita
Inker(s): John Romita
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Morrie Kuramoto
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Ka-Zar
Character(s): Ka-Zar; Zabu; Victorius; Bobbi Morse
First Line: Victorius! You have felled Zabu!
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In Issue: FlagConan e Kazar #7 published ?cover
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index #7B.
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The Final Battle!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Mike Friedrich
Penciller(s): Marie Severin; Werner Roth (see notes)
Inker(s): Frank Giacoia
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): June Braverman
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Ka-Zar
Character(s): Ka-Zar; Zabu; (Barbara) Bobbi Morse; Victorius [Professor Victor Conrad] (origin, villain); Gemini [Damian Link with Joshua Link's mind controlling] (villain); Lord Parnival Plunder [Plunderer] (villain); A.I.M.; Nick Fury; Professor Victor Conrad (flashback); Dr. Wilma Calvin; Damian Link; Joshua "Whitey" Link
Synopsis: The fight between Ka-Zar and Victorius continues with Victorius momentarily stopping Ka-Zar. Zabu distracts Victorius until Ka-Zar recovers. Ka-Zar again refuses to take the super-soldier serum, this time destroying it. He then defeats Victorius. Professor Wilma Conrad refuses to make another batch of the super-soldier serum. Ka-Zar leaves Barbara Morse to return to the Savage Land.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 19
Job Number: 1619-Z
Disclose Notes: Marie Severin greatly revised the art throughout this story. Story continues in KA-ZAR (Marvel, 1974 series) #1 (January 1974).
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World Driving You Crazy?

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (promo copy)
Penciller(s): Marv Wolfman
Inker(s): Marv Wolfman
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Crazy
Character(s): Nebbish
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Promo for the first issue of Crazy Magazine featuring Nebbish blowing up Crazy Magazine #1, appears between pages 13 and 14 of the story sequence.
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Marvel Bullpen Bulletins [Dietetic Doodlings and Dizzy Dispatches Designed To Delight! [October 1973]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (promo copy)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Marvel Bullpen Bulletins
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Items about the new magazine Crazy which goes on sale July 10 and has an ad specially designed by Marv Wolfman in this issue, the Son of Satan premieres this month picking up where Ghost Rider left off in the pages of Marvel Spotlight and guest starring the Ghost Rider (written by Gary Friedrich and drawn by Herb Trimpe), the Recorder crosses over from Thor and into Warlock, Kraven crosses over into Daredevil, Dr. Spectrum crosses over from the Avengers into Iron Man, Spider-Man and Sub-Mariner clash in Marvel Team-Up, an apology for misreporting the cost of The Haunt of Horror as 60 cents instead of 75 cents, the increase of Monster Madness to 75 cents but a bigger bargain with more pages and Tony Isabella working on it and Savage Tales #2 is now on sale with work by Roy Thomas, Barry Smith, John Buscema, Gil Kane, Frank Brunner and Al Williamson.
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FOOM!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (promo copy)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): FOOM
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Advertisement for a subscription to FOOM describing what is included (a 22" x 28" poster, a membership card, a fistful of stick-ons, full year's subscription to FOOM magazine and a special surprise envelope that everything comes in).
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Steve Gerber ?
Letterer(s): typeset; Sam Rosen
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Astonishing Mails
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Includes letters from (and answers to) Mark Zepezaner, Harvey Phillips and unsigned.
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Like Father, Like Son?

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (promo copy)
Penciller(s): Herb Trimpe (illustration)
Inker(s): Herb Trimpe (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Morrie Kuramoto
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Feature(s): Son of Satan
Character(s): Son of Satan [Daimon Hellstrom]
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Promo for the first issue of the Son of Satan in Marvel Spotlight #12.

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