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Issue: Tales to Astonish #27
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Is Variant Variant: UK Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
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Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/28/1961
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
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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)
6 (5 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
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Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is the publication date reported in U. S. Copyright Office filings. Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics history website reports that this was the newsstand distribution date.

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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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The Man in the Ant Hill!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Subject Matter
science fiction
Henry Pym (later known as Ant-Man)
Save me, somebody, save me!!
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The Man in the Ant Hill!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
science fiction
Henry Pym [Ant-Man (later)] (introduction, origin)
Living nightmares can begin in many ways!
Henry Pym invents a shrinking serum, but is trapped in an ant hill when he tests it. He is attacked by several ants, but one of them helps him escape and restore his ordinary size. He destroys the serum because it is too dangerous.
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Trouble Bubble

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
science fiction
Jonathan Jr.; Nora; Jonathan Sr.; Mr. Bigger
If there was some way to keep Jonathan, Jr. busy on a rainy day, his mother fervently...
A boy discovers a formula to blow unbreakable bubbles and accidentally entraps his father's boss.
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Text story with illustration.
Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall...

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
occult
Bill Carter; Anne Carter
Bill Carter is an ordinary guy with ordinary problems...
Bill Carter purchases a mirror for his wife's birthday. It turns out to be cursed and she falls under the control of an undead sorceror until the mirror is broken.
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The Talking Horse

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
occult, sports
Barney Sloan; Mike Jordan; Silverstreak
Go! Go! Go!
The horse Silverstreak convinces the abusive jockey Barney to bet on them winning the next race. When they lose, Barney is caught trying to beat the horse and kicked out of racing, before being beaten up by his bookie.
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Dead Planet!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
science fiction
Grokor; Mopox
Somewhere in the vast, endless universe...
A warrior race conquers world after world, but on one of them there seems to be life but their warrior can find none and dies of loneliness. The world was actually inhabited by sentient rocks.
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Last page includes an advertisment for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko.

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