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Issue: Tales to Astonish #43

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Publication Date: May 1963

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Issues: #43 of 101 Issues (131 Printings)

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Variant: UK Cover Price

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

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Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications Inc.

On Sale Date: 02/05/1963

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN:

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Price: 9.0 pence GBQ 0-0-9

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
5 (4 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): Stan Lee

Notes: The on-sale date is the publication date reported in U. S. Copyright Office filings.

Distributed to newstands in February 1963. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.

Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

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Format

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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Tales to Astonish #43 [U.S. Cover Price]

Tales to Astonish #43 [No Cover Price or Date]

2 Tales to Astonish #43 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (5 total)

The Mad Master of Time!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Ant-Man [Henry Pym]

First Line: What's happening to me?

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Pages: 1

The Mad Master of Time!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Ant-Man [Henry Pym]; Time-Master [Elias Weems] (introduction, origin); Tommy Weems

First Line: Thousands of footsteps tread daily upon the sidewalks of Center City...

Synopsis: A scientist forced to retire makes a device to artificially age others and holds the city hostage. Ant-Man can't stop him, but when he accidentally ages his own grandson he repents and reverses the damage.

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Pages: 13

Job Number: X-125

Notes: The Time Master never appears again, Ant-Man still operates in "Center City".

Lady Luck

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Lester Ford; Marie Ford; Lady Luck

First Line: Lester counted up all his cards and gave the number to the scorekeeper.

Synopsis: A businessman doesn’t believe in luck, but several beneficial encounters with an old lady change his mind.

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Pages: 2

Job Number: [G-377]

Notes: Text story with illustration.

Frankie's Fast Ball!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Frankie Jones; Mr. Jones; Mrs. Jones

First Line: Frankie Jones could throw the fastest ball in the world!

Synopsis: A boy gains extraordinary physical and mental abilities due to his parents' exposure to radiation. He wants to play baseball, but his fastball punches a hole in a tree and would damage a catcher.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Notes: This is a retelling of "The Rookie" from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #131 (February 1955). The idea of radiation granting super-powers to unborn children was a major part of early X-Men stories.

My Fatal Mistake!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Yates; Cosmo

First Line: I am the only human on Earth ever to defeat the mighty Cosmo...

Synopsis: A man is bitter because he has been replaced by a computer and must take a job servicing it. It is ensconced in an air-tight clean room with a door that is opened after fifteen minutes allotted for servicing purposes. When the man enters the room, he gets the idea to sabotage the machine so that it will make mistakes and he can get his old job back, but he damages the circuits that allow the machine to open the door after the fifteen minutes of oxygen are used up.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-818

Notes: Per Cory Sedlmeier on the Marvel Masterworks Message Board, "TTA #43's 'My Fatal Mistake!' doesn't have a job number listed, but a little research makes me feel comfortable saying that it was probably V-818."