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Issue: Tales to Astonish #42
Publication Date: April 1963
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Issues: #42 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: 01/10/1963
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is the publication date reported in U. S. Copyright Office filings.

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

Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
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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:  
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
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Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Voice of Doom!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Ant-Man [Henry Pym]; Voice [Jason Cragg]
First Line: Ant-Man, you cannot help yourself!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #43 published January 1965
as The Man with the Voice of Doom! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Ant-Man #1 published February 2002
as Voice of Doom! [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 #42 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man #1 published December 2013
as "The Man with the Voice of Doom!" [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Voice of Doom!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Ant-Man [Henry Pym]; Voice [Jason Cragg] (introduction, origin)
First Line: I command you, Ant-Man!
Synopsis: A radio spokesman gains a hypnotic voice from radiation, and decides to test it by turning the people against Ant-Man. He captures Ant-Man and forces him to walk off a pier, but the ants rescue the hero, and he beats the Voice with laryngitis.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagEssential Ant-Man #1 published February 2002
as The Voice of Doom! [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 Voice of Doom! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man #1 published December 2013
as "The Voice of Doom!" [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: X-106
Disclose Notes: The Voice next appears in West Coast Avengers (Marvel, 1985 series) #36 (September 1988). In this story Ant-Man is said to live in "Center City".
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Secret Mission

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Character(s): Ezra Bolton; Prof. Carmichael; Prof. Greever
First Line: "The effect of sound waves upon matter have always been a problem of interest to scientists, Mr. Bolton," Professor Carmichael told...
Synopsis: A bookkeeper dreams that he is a government agent hunting a mad scientist with a destructive sound device.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMystic #43 published January 1956
was Secret Mission [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1.75
Job Number: H-487
Disclose Notes: The first page is printed between the pages of the Ant-Man story, while the second page is printed between "The Eyes of the Mummy!" and "I Am Not Human!". The last page is split with the statement of ownership.
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The Eyes of the Mummy!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Harry Sloan; Mrs. Sloan; Sadie
First Line: Want a real fantastic tale?
Synopsis: A crook steals a jewel from an ancient mummy, but the dead pharaoh's hypnotic powers make him see only death until he returns it.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCapitaine America #13 published September 1972
as Les yeux de la Momie! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #4 [Regular Edition] published January 2012
as The Eyes of the Mummy! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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Statement Required by the Act of August 24, 1912, as Amended by the Acts of March 3, 1933, July 2, 1946 and June 11, 1960 (74 Stat. 208)

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.25
Disclose Notes: Average circulation per issue October 1961–September 1962 (issues #28–38, despite monthly cover dates): 139,167. This shares the last page of "Secret Mission".
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I Am Not Human!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): E-1
First Line: What really is a human being??
Synopsis: A humanoid robot escapes his creator's lab with an artificial face and clothes in order to live among humans as a man. He is so disillusioned with human beings inhumanity to their fellows that he removes the mask and allows his creator to bring him back to the lab. His maker says to him "You must have known you could never have passed for human for long." to which the robot replies to the startled engineer "Has the thought never occurred to you that no robot would want to?"
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #112 published January 1975
as I Am Not Human! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Visionaries: Steve Ditko #[nn] published January 2005
as I Am Not Human! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #4 [Regular Edition] published January 2012
as I Am Not Human! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5

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