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Issue: Tales to Astonish #39

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Publication Date: January 1963

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Issues: #39 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: 10/02/1962

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 October 1962. 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 #39 [U.S. Cover Price]

Tales to Astonish #39 [UK Cover Price]

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Cover, Front

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Content Items (5 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

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

First Line: At last you've met your match, Ant-Man!!

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Pages: 1

The Vengeance of the Scarlet Beetle!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Ant-Man [Henry Pym]; Scarlet Beetle (introduction, origin)

First Line: Your days of meddling are ended, Ant-Man!

Synopsis: Ant-Man fights a beetle made super-intelligent by radiation. It uses Ant-Man's growth gas to become giant, but he is able to defeat it.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 10

Job Number: V-958

Notes: The Scarlet Beetle next appears in Iron Man (Marvel, 1968 series) #44 (January 1972).

The Remedy Oil

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Mrs. Gerrity; Tom Gerrity; Officer O'Malley; Logarithm

First Line: All of the fancy clothing stores on Main Street were doing a...

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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Pages: 2

Job Number: J-984

Notes: Text story with illustrations.

Ozamm the Terrible!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Ozamm; Joe Baxter

First Line: Surrender, Earthlings!

Synopsis: A factory worker laid off to be replaced by a machine foils a seemingly invincible alien by cutting off his power source.

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Pages: 8

The Toy Soldiers

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Billy Barton; Zogg

First Line: How can anyone possibly dream up a fantasy story as simple as a few toy soldiers?

Synopsis: A boy who enjoys toy soldiers buys a new civil war figure to place in his prisoner of war stockade. That evening, he and his father are attacked by an invader from the sixth dimension. Suddenly, the lights go out, and when they turn the lights back on, the invader has disappeared. They chalk it up to some sort of unusual shared dream, and go back to sleep. The following morning when the boy wakes up and peers into his model stockade, he sees the invader languishing in the cell guarded over by the toy soldier.

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Pages: 5

Notes: Letters credit from George Oshevsky's Marvel Comics Index.