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Issue: Tales to Astonish #5
Publication Date: September 1959
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Issues: #5 of 101 Issues (131 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Zenith Publishing Corp.
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 May 1959. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements (pages 2, 9, 15, 19, 25, 27, 33-36 of comic including inside front cover, inside back cover and back cover) ; pages of comic not numbered. All new stories in this issue are narrated in the first person.

Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. Indicia date is October 1959.
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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 In12
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
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The Things on Easter Island!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #24 published October 1973
as I Was Trapped By the Things on Easter Island! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
as Tales to Astonish #5 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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I Was Trapped by the Things on Easter Island!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: In mute amazement I watched as they stirred!
Synopsis: A pilot crash lands on Easter Island where he observes the statues rise out of the ground and discuss invasion plans of their home planet and the enslavement of Earthmen. He flees the pursuit of the statues and attempts to warn the proper authorities, but no one believes him. Eventually he begins to doubt his story as well, and unobserved, the statues who had been following him return to Easter island safe in the knowledge that no one would believe such an outlandish tale.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagZombie #8 published January 1961
as I Was Trapped by the Things on Easter Island! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #24 published October 1973
as I Was Trapped By the Things on Easter Island! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
as I Was Trapped by the Things on Easter Island! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-327
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The Inventor

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): Ned Carter; Mr. Jonas
First Line: Ned Carter was a janitor, but he didn't like it very much.
Synopsis: A disgruntled janitor's obsessive effort to create a sweeping robot costs him his job and ends in failure, but only because he sees no use for a perpetual motion machine.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
as The Inventor [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #32 published June 1955
was The Inventor [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: F-889
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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I Am the Menace from Outer Space!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Krag
First Line: I am from a planet that spins in a galaxy so far from yours, you don't even know it exists!
Synopsis: An alien race sends a scout to Earth prior to their invasion, but when he investigates a mysterious space ship he is trapped and crushed, as the ship is actually a living being. The aliens believe he has been captured and call off the invasion.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
as I Am the Menace from Outer Space! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-324
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I Can See Tomorrow!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Willy Adams
First Line: I never shoulda done it!
Synopsis: A burglar steals a golden camera that takes pictures of tomorrow. He uses it to get information on the stock market and horse races, but when he photographs himself he realizes that he has no tomorrow.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
as I Can See Tomorrow! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: T-330
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I Landed on the Forbidden Planet!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Tim Korey
First Line: In the early 21st century, for some unknown reason, a planet just outside our...
Synopsis: A space pilot visits a nearby planet, but finds that it is inhabited by giants, and so is too dangerous. He gets away, happy that his own universe is too tiny for the inhabitants of Earth to see it.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #142 published January 1974
as I Landed on the Forbidden Planet! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
as I Landed on the Forbidden Planet! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-339
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I Found the Nightmare Note

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Joe Baxter; Spencer Worthington
First Line: My name is Joe Baxter... and I was the assistant to the owner of a...
Synopsis: An assistant at a record store devises a sound that will make a person unconscious, planning to use it to rob a wealthy customer. When the man doesn't pass out the crook thinks he failed, not knowing that the customer was deaf, and only bought records for his wife.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #142 published January 1974
as I Found the Nightmare Note [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
as I Found the Nightmare Note [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: T-334

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