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Issue: Tales to Astonish #39
Publication Date: January 1963
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Issues: #39 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: 10/02/1962
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 In16
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images1
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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]; Scarlet Beetle
First Line: At last you've met your match, Ant-Man!!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales #4 published September 1966
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Ant-Man #1 published February 2002
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]black and white
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man #1 [Regular Edition] published March 2006
as Tales to Astonish #39 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man #1 published December 2013
as Starring The Astonishing Ant-Man! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Vengeance of the Scarlet Beetle!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales #4 published September 1966
as The Vengeance of the Scarlet Beetle! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Ant-Man #1 published February 2002
as The Vengeance of the Scarlet Beetle! [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 Vengeance of the Scarlet Beetle! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man #1 published December 2013
as "The Vengeance of the Scarlet Beetle!" [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Job Number: V-958
Disclose Notes: The Scarlet Beetle next appears in Iron Man (Marvel, 1968 series) #44 (January 1972).
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The Remedy Oil

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #54 published April 1957
was The Remedy Oil [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: J-984
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustrations.
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Ozamm the Terrible!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #29 published July 1974
as Ozamm the Terrible! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #205 published January 1982
as Ozamm the Terrible! [Story on Interior Page(s)]original title: Ozamm the Terrible!
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #4 [Regular Edition] published January 2012
as Ozamm the Terrible! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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The Toy Soldiers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagI Fantastici Quattro #2 published April 1971
as I soldatini [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #8 published February 1975
as The Toy Soldiers [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLos Vengadores #14 published June 1981
as Soldados de Juguete [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #4 [Regular Edition] published January 2012
as The Toy Soldiers [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #100 published ?
as The Toy Soldiers [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Letters credit from George Oshevsky's Marvel Comics Index.

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