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Issue: Tales to Astonish #36
Publication Date: October 1962
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Issues: #36 of 101 Issues (131 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: MCView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 07/10/1962
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 5 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee
Disclose Notes: Includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. The on-sale date is the publication date reported in U.S. Copyright Office filings.
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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 Variants2
Disclose Reprinted In13
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
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Original Artwork
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Ant-Man [Henry Pym]; Comrade X [Nina Vladimirovna Tsiolkovsky]
First Line: So!! The famous Ant-Man has walked into the trap of Comrade X!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #3 published January 1963
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Ant-Man #1 published February 2002
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]cover
In Content Item: FlagEssential Ant-Man #1 published February 2002
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man #1 [Regular Edition] published March 2006
as Tales to Astonish #36 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man #1 published December 2013
as Featuring: A New Ant-Man Thriller! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMisterios del Gato Negro #164 published ?
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Challenge of Comrade X!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Ant-Man [Henry Pym]; Comrade X [Nina Vladimirovna Tsiolkovsky] (introduction)
First Line: You're in for another gripping adventure with Henry Pym, the brilliant scientist who can...
Synopsis: Ant-Man is hunted by a Soviet agent sent to capture him, but a beautiful stranger warns him of the spy's whereabouts. Ant-Man realizes that the woman is really the spy and defeats her.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Collectors' Item Classics #1 published December 1965
as The Challenge of Comrade X! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Marvel Saga the Official History of the Marvel Universe #5 [Direct Edition] published April 1986
as Book V: Terror in the Skies! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Ant-Man #1 published February 2002
as The Challenge of Comrade X! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man #1 [Regular Edition] published March 2006
as The Challenge of Comrade X! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man #1 published December 2013
as The Challenge of Comrade X! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: V-858
Disclose Notes: This story is divided into two untitled parts (7 pp, 6 pp). Page 5 includes a schematic of Ant-Man's miniature entrance and exit from his house. Comrade X next appears in West Coast Avengers (Marvel, 1985 series) #33 (June 1988) as "Madame X".
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From Outer Space

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): Jonathan Ditmar
First Line: It had been expected for a long time, so it wasn't too much of a shock when the first visitors from...
Synopsis: When hostile aliens come to Earth of the future they are persuaded not to enslave humanity because of Earth's music.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMystery Tales #26 published February 1955
was From Outer Space [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: 9498
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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The Hands of Time!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Harry Weems
First Line: Our story starts with a flight from the law...
Synopsis: A fugitive steals a clock that turns back time. He becomes young again, and tries to commit the perfect crime, by escaping back in time before it happened, but when the clock breaks, he dies.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #4 [Regular Edition] published January 2012
as The Hands of Time! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-859
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The Search for Pan!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Pan
First Line: Many men had searched for Pan--in vain!
Synopsis: A man arrives in a small village looking for Pan, whom all the villagers affirm does exist. He hopes to cash in somehow, but becomes frustrated when no one will tell him where to find Pan, and he begins to think they are just scamming the tourists. He threatens to rough up a bartender and the bartender directs him to a nearby grove under the full moon. The man goes, and does encounter Pan, but is so unsettled by the encounter he immediately leaves town. It turns out the bartender has cloven hooves.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #4 [Regular Edition] published January 2012
as The Search for Pan! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-860
Disclose Notes: The last page includes an advertisement for Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #1 (1962).

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