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Issue: Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #2
Publication Date: March 2008
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Issues: #2 of 4 Issues (8 Printings)
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Variant: Regular Edition
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: MarvelView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Publishing, Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 2
Pages: 280
ISBN: 9780785129134
UPC/EAN: 978078512913455999
Price: $95.99 CAD
$59.99 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 68 (51 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Cory Sedlmeier (collection editor); Stan Lee (original editor)
Disclose Notes: Reprints Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 Series) #11-20.
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Publication Type: Hardcover
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: Glossy
Binding: Hardcover; Dustjacket; Sewn bindings
Publishing Format: Collected Editions
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reprinted 62 times from Content Items in other Issues.
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Steve Ditko
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Thorr
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #16 published February 1961
was This Is Thorr! [Illustration on Cover, Front]cover
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko
Inker(s): Steve Ditko
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Foreground of page 1 from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 Series) #16 story "A Monster Waits Outside!!".
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Credits/Contents

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): Typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Introduction

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Michael Allred
Letterer(s): Typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Tales to Astonish #11

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Monstrom
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #11 published September 1960
was I Found Monstrom, the Dweller in the Black Swamp! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1
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I Found Monstrom! The Dweller in the Black Swamp!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby (signed)
Inker(s): Dick Ayers (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Monstrom; John; Billy; Sara
Synopsis: A vacationing family finds a monster in a swamp. The locals drive it back into the swamp with torches, but it was only a shipwrecked alien trying to get help.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #11 published September 1960
was I Found Monstrom! The Dweller in the Black Swamp! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: T-755
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The Balloon

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): Leroy; Zoop
Synopsis: A young boy meets a tiny space traveler from Skyville, a suburb of Mars, trapped in a balloon.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #11 published September 1960
was The Balloon [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-267
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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I Was Face-to-Face with the Forbidden Robot!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Don Heck
Inker(s): Don Heck
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Ralph; Anne
Synopsis: A man reactivates an illegal robot in order to gain recognition for stopping it. He destroys the robot, but realizes that robots are harmless, and instead of cashing in he confesses his plan, and advocates the legalization of robots.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #11 published September 1960
was I Was Face-to-Face with the Forbidden Robot! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: T-759
Disclose Notes: This story is set in 1967.
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I Dared to Look Into the Beyond!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Steve Ditko
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Carl; Derek
Synopsis: A scientist builds a time machine to travel into the future. He believes that he has travelled to the past, demonstrating that the future does not yet exist, but in fact he saw a future in which Earth was abandoned.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #11 published September 1960
was I Dared to Look into the Beyond! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-773
Disclose Notes: This is a retelling of "Journey into Nowhere!" drawn by Joe Sinnott, from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #69 (June 1959).
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I Wore...The Mask of Drothor!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Inker(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Markas; Drothor (flashback)
Synopsis: An artist creates a mask based on the face of an ancient sorceror. He robs a mansion wearing this mask, but his face has transformed to matach it.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #11 published September 1960
was I Wore...The Mask of Drothor! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-745
Disclose Notes: This is a retelling of "Who Hides Beneath My Mask?" drawn by Dick Ayers in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #6 (November 1959).
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Tales to Astonish #12

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Gorgilla
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #12 published October 1960
was Gorgilla! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1
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I Discovered Gorgilla! The Monster of Midnight Mountain!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Steve Ditko
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Gorgilla (introduction); Scotty; Anne; Frank
Synopsis: An expedition finds the missing link between apes and humans in Borneo. It is initially hostile, but defends its fellow primates from a dinosaur.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #12 published October 1960
was I Discovered Gorgilla! The Monster of Midnight Mountain! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: T-873
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The Sorcerer

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Joe Maneely
Inker(s): Joe Maneely
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Tom Morton; Jack Morton; Ellen Morton; Johnny Morton
Synopsis: A man who has travelled the world and seen wonders performed by hermits in India returns home to find that his young nephew creates magic with only belief.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #12 published October 1960
was The Sorcerer [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: H-203
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My Nightmare Has No End!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee ?
Penciller(s): Don Heck
Inker(s): Don Heck
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Synopsis: A man meets an extradimensional being in his nightmares. The being tells him that the world he comes from is a paradise, but boring, and offers to switch places. The man agrees, but the traveller wakes up to find that he entered the dreams of a prisoner.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #12 published October 1960
was My Nightmare Has No End! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
Job Number: [T-874]
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Save Me! Save Me!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Paul Reinman (signed)
Inker(s): Paul Reinman (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Albert Poole
Synopsis: A scientist makes himself able to walk on water in order to steal secret military plans from a ship. But when he returns to the shore he finds that he now sinks on land.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #12 published October 1960
was Save Me! Save Me! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
Job Number: T-875
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A Monster Waits Outside!!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Inker(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Maj. Ford
Synopsis: An astronaut is sent into orbit in a tiny sphere without communication. He sees a monster trying to claw its way in and panics, signalling ground control to bring him back. They think that it was a hallucination, but they find a broken claw on the spacecraft.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #12 published October 1960
was A Monster Waits Outside!! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
Job Number: T-876
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the second person.
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Tales to Astonish #13

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Steve Ditko
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Groot
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #13 published November 1960
was I Challenged... Groot! The Monster from Planet X! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1
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I Challenged... Groot! The Monster from Planet X!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Larry Lieber ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby (signed)
Inker(s): Dick Ayers (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Groot (introduction, origin); Leslie Evans; Alice Evans
Synopsis: The monarch of planet X arrives on Earth in order to capture a town for experimental purposes back on his homeworld. The hero of our story defeats Groot with termites.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #13 published November 1960
was I Challenged... Groot! The Monster from Planet X! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
Job Number: T-839
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Special Sale

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Joe Maneely
Inker(s): Joe Maneely
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Marvin Kale; Paula Kale
Synopsis: When a husband goes shopping he finds a new cleaning fluid that makes anything better than new, even him.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #13 published November 1960
was Special Sale [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 2
Job Number: J-932
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I Found the Abominable Snowman!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Steve Ditko
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Carl Hanson
Synopsis: A thug ventures to the Himalayas with the intention of capturing the Abominable Snowman for profit but is frustrated in his attempts of getting the locals to refer him to the creature he has in a photograph. They all tell him to discard the photograph as it is cursed. He plods through the mountains for weeks unable to locate any trace, until his mind is addled, and he drops the photograph which is now a reasonable resemblance of what he has become.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #13 published November 1960
was I Found the Abominable Snowman! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
Job Number: T-838
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My Friend is...Not Quite Human!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Inker(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Gustav; Napoleon Bonaparte
Synopsis: A misogynist wood-carver falls in love with his sculpture and has himself transformed into wood, but his refusal to pay a gypsy mystic leads to her making the wooden figure human out of spite.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #13 published November 1960
was My Friend is...Not Quite Human! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: [T-836]
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I Found the Hidden World!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Don Heck
Inker(s): Don Heck
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Joey; Frankie
Synopsis: An ex-con investigates a professor's theories about a world inside television sets. He proves the theory when a gate opens accidentally, allowing the inhabitants to pull through an old enemy of his trying to get revenge.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #13 published November 1960
was I Found the Hidden World! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-837
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Tales to Astonish #14

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Steve Ditko
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Krang
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #14 published December 1960
was Krang! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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I Created Krang!, Chapter One

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby (signed)
Inker(s): Dick Ayers (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Krang; Prof. Carter; Ludwig
Synopsis: A scientist's formula makes an ant giant and super-intelligent. The ant wants to conquer the world, but is killed by a giant ant-eater.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #14 published December 1960
was I Created Krang! The Most Fantastic Monster The World Has Ever Known!, Chapter One [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
Job Number: T-901
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[I Created Krang!], Chapter Two: Krang!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby (signed)
Inker(s): Dick Ayers (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Krang; Professor Carter; Ludwig
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #14 published December 1960
was Krang!: Chapter Two [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: T-901
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The Remedy Oil

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Marie Severin
Inker(s): Marie Severin
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Mrs. Gerrity; Tom Gerrity; Officer O'Malley; Logarithm
Synopsis: An old-fashioned shopkeeper unwittingly saves the life of a boy from Mechanica when her remedy oil lubricates the gears in his brain.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #14 published December 1960
was The Remedy Oil [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: J-984
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustrations.
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Behold! I Am the Master of Time!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Inker(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Synopsis: In a black magic book, a thief finds instructions for creating a time machine which runs on electricity, but after robbing people in the 18th century and attempting to return to the 20th, he realizes he is stuck in the past because there is no electricity in the 18th century.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #14 published December 1960
was Behold! I Am the Master of Time! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
Job Number: T-889
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The Thing in Human Form!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Don Heck
Inker(s): Don Heck
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Ogor; 'John Cummings' [Zeno]
Synopsis: A Martian is sent to Earth to kidnap a human scientist who has invented a weapon that Mars wants to use against Jupiter. The Martian is beaten by the scientist, who turns out to be a Jovian agent setting a trap to capture a live Martian.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #14 published December 1960
was The Thing in Human Form! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the third person.
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Tales to Astonish #15

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Blip
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #15 published January 1961
was The Blip! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1
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I Learned the Dread Secret of the Blip!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby (signed)
Inker(s): Dick Ayers (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Blip
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.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #15 published January 1961
was I Learned the Dread Secret of the Blip! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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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; Captain Zingle
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
From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #15 published January 1961
was The Free Ride [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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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)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Don Heck
Inker(s): Don Heck
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Derek; John; Monga; Uxmal; Antogg
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.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #15 published January 1961
was I Dared Enter the Forbidden World! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: T-952
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I Am the Invisible!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Inker(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Professor Karlos Konak; Zuka
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.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #15 published January 1961
was I Am the Invisible! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
Job Number: T-951
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I Defied the Curse of Tut-Ah-Anka!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Paul Reinman (signed)
Inker(s): Paul Reinman (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #15 published January 1961
was I Defied the Curse of Tut-Ah-Anka! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-933
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Tales to Astonish #16

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Steve Ditko
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Thorr
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #16 published February 1961
was This Is Thorr! [Illustration on Cover, Front]interior
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Pages: 1
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Here Comes...Thorr the Unbelievable

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby (signed)
Inker(s): Dick Ayers (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Thorr [renamed "Thorg" in later reprints]; Linus; Helen
Synopsis: When Professor Linus mistakenly wakes up Thorr the Unbelievable he has to stop him from waking up his fellow warriors and taking over the world.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #16 published February 1961
was Here Comes...Thorr the Unbelievable [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
Job Number: V-15
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The Bridge

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage, occult
Character(s): Doctor Title; Douglas Jenks
Synopsis: A government agent retrieves a classified microfilm stolen to be given to enemy agents, and is helped by a magic bridge.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #16 published February 1961
was The Bridge [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: J-707
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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My Touch Means... Doom!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Don Heck
Inker(s): Don Heck
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Bill Howard; Martha Howard; Doctor Johnson
Synopsis: A teller plans to rob his bank to pay for his wife's surgery. The guard on duty doesn't carry a gun, but the thief experiences a terrifying vision where he is irradiated and made deadly to the touch while trying to escape. It turns out that the new guard is a "psychiatrist hypnotist" who gave him the vision.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #16 published February 1961
was My Touch Means... Doom! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-27
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the third person.
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Save Me from the Mole Men!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Paul Reinman (signed)
Inker(s): Paul Reinman (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Crusher; Xoorr
Synopsis: A fighter who is cruel and likes to hurt his opponents finds out that there are some creatures stronger than him, and they like to hurt their opponents also.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #16 published February 1961
was Save Me from the Mole Men! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-28
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I Am the Victim of the Sorcerer!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Inker(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Joe
Synopsis: A bedraggled man wanders through a misty night, unsure of his identity. He is finally forced to return to his prison in a painting, where he has been trapped since betraying a sorceror.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #16 published February 1961
was I Am the Victim of the Sorcerer! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-31
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Tales to Astonish #17

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Steve Ditko; Dick Ayers (alterations)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
Character(s): Vandoom's Creature
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #17 published March 1961
was Vandoom! He Who Made a Creature! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: A stat of the unaltered cover appeared as the cover to Where Creatures Roam # 4, with additional art by Marie Severin.
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Vandoom, the Man Who Made a Creature!, Chapter 1

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby (signed)
Inker(s): Dick Ayers (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
Character(s): Ludwig Vandoom; Vandoom's Creature
Synopsis: Vandoom, the owner of a Transylvanian wax museum, sets out to build a new monster in order to bring customers back to the museum. A lightning bolt brings the creature to life, but despite the fearful attacks of the villagers, it is not hostile and does not strike back. An invasion force of Martians lands and Vandoom convinces his creation to attack them. The wax figure defeats them, but the effort drains the life force out of it.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #17 published March 1961
was Vandoom, the Man Who Made a Creature!, Chapter 1 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: V-55
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[Vandoom, the Man Who Made a Creature!], Chapter 2: The Mark of Vandoom

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby (signed)
Inker(s): Dick Ayers (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
Character(s): Ludwig Vandoom; Vandoom's Creature
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #17 published March 1961
was Chapter 2: The Mark of Vandoom [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: V-55
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The Spirit

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Bobby Davis; Tom Davis; Alice Davis;
Synopsis: A young boy cleans out the attic of the old house his family moved into and meets a ghost from the Revolutionary War era.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #17 published March 1961
was The Spirit [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: J-169
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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Beware! Of the Ghastly Glass!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Inker(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Bruno
Synopsis: A man kills to gain possession of a magic crystal that grants him four wishes, but even his carefully worded wishes backfire, stranding him on the Moon.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #17 published March 1961
was Beware! Of the Ghastly Glass! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-54
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the third person.
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I Dared to Enter the Haunted Room!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Don Heck
Inker(s): Don Heck
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Mr. Smith
Synopsis: A scientist builds an ultimate bomb and plans to use it to hold the world hostage. He hides it in a room believed haunted, but when he goes to give his ultimatum to the UN he realizes that he is now a ghost.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #17 published March 1961
was I Dared to Enter the Haunted Room! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-37
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Tales to Astonish #18

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby (signed)
Inker(s): Dick Ayers (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Gorgilla
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #18 published April 1961
was Gorgilla Strikes Again! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Gorgilla Strikes Again! [, Part 1]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby (signed)
Inker(s): Dick Ayers (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Gorgilla; Scotty; Anne
Synopsis: Gorgilla stows away on a ship to America to contact the human race, but is met with fear and violence in New York. He stumbles across some communist spies and stops an assassination, but is killed by the military out of fear.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #18 published April 1961
was Gorgilla Strikes Again! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-122
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. Gorgilla last appeared in issue #12 (October 1960), and later appears in Marvel Universe (Marvel, 1998 series) and Defenders (Marvel, 2001 series) #1 (March 2001).
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Gorgilla Strikes Again!, Part 2

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby (signed)
Inker(s): Dick Ayers (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Gorgilla; Scotty; Anne
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #18 published April 1961
was Part 2...Gorgilla Strikes Again! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: V-122
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The Stranger

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Joe Maneely
Inker(s): Joe Maneely
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Synopsis: A painting of a Napoleonic victory parade is mysteriously linked to an eccentric inhabitant of modern Paris.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #18 published April 1961
was The Stranger [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1.75
Job Number: G-76
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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Monsteroso

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee ?
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Inker(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Monsteroso
Synopsis: A creature hatches from an egg and imagines itself lord of all it surveys, but it is suddenly drowned, as it is only a microbe in a scientist's culture.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #18 published April 1961
was Monsteroso [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-105
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Robot on the Rampage!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Inker(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A robot stationed at a lighthouse rebels against his human master and the man manages to lock the robot outside where the food supply is stashed, but thanks to the salty sea air, it rusts completely within a mere matter of hours rendering it harmless to carry out its threats.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #18 published April 1961
was Robot on the Rampage! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-111
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Tales to Astonish #19

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby (signed)
Inker(s): Dick Ayers (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Rommbu
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #19 published May 1961
was Rommbu! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Rommbu! [, Part One]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Rommbu; Pete Hunter; John Hunter
Synopsis: An escaped geologist convicted of armed robbery leads an alien invader to an active volcano in order to sacrifice himself to destroy the alien and protect the planet.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #19 published May 1961
was Rommbu! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-138
Disclose Notes: Rommbu next appears in Marvel Monsters: Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (December 2005).
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Rommbu!, Part Two

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby (signed)
Inker(s): Dick Ayers (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Rommbu; Pete Hunter; John Hunter
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #19 published May 1961
was Rommbu! Part Two [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: V-138
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The Tree

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Wally Hadley
Synopsis: When a family moves to a house in the country their son finds a gnarled little tree on their land that grants wishes.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #19 published May 1961
was The Tree [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-435
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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The Thing With the Red Eyes

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Don Heck
Inker(s): Don Heck
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Vince Kane; Al Rocco
Synopsis: A gangster buys a pincushion doll that looks like his rival, and his reactions to pins stuck in it convince him that it works. He throws the doll out the window of a tall building, but his rival has altered the doll to look like him instead.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #19 published May 1961
was The Thing with the Red Eyes [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-139
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the second person.
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The Terrible Trap!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Inker(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Bart Magor; Zomok
Synopsis: A hunter with contempt for the animals he captures is captured by giant aliens and placed in a maze from which he can see a rocketship he could use to pilot his way home if only he could figure out how to escape the maze.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #19 published May 1961
was The Terrible Trap! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-137
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Tales to Astonish #20

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Jack Kirby ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): X
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #20 published June 1961
was I Was Hunted By "X" the Thing That Lived!! [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)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby (signed)
Inker(s): Dick Ayers (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Charles Bentley; X (introduction, origin)
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.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #20 published June 1961
was 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).
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[What Was "X" the Thing That Lived!], Part 2

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby [as K] (signed)
Inker(s): Dick Ayers [as A] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Charles Bentley; X
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #20 published June 1961
was [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)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby [as K] (signed)
Inker(s): Dick Ayers [as A] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Charles Bentley; X
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #20 published June 1961
was [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)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby [as K] (signed)
Inker(s): Dick Ayers [as A] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Charles Bentley; X
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #20 published June 1961
was [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): ?
Penciller(s): Joe Maneely
Inker(s): Joe Maneely
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Jim Branner; Bill Toney
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.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #20 published June 1961
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)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Inker(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Adam Gree
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.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #20 published June 1961
was One-Way Journey! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-184
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Tales to Astonish #13 Page 1 Original Art

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby (signed)
Inker(s): Dick Ayers (signed)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Tales to Astonish #14 Page 6 Original Art

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Biographies

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): John Rhett Thomas
Letterer(s): Typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Biographies for Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Don Heck, Paul Reinman, Dick Ayers, Stan Lee, and Larry Lieber.

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