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Issue: Tales to Astonish #36

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Publication Date: October 1962

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Issues: #36 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.

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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)
5 (4 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): Stan Lee

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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 #36 [U.S. Cover Price]

Tales to Astonish #36 [UK Cover Price]

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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]; Comrade X [Nina Vladimirovna Tsiolkovsky]

First Line: So!! The famous Ant-Man has walked into the trap of Comrade X!

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Pages: 1

The Challenge of Comrade X!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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.

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Pages: 13

Job Number: V-858

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".

From Outer Space

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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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.

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Pages: 2

Job Number: 9498

Notes: Text story with illustration.

The Hands of Time!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-859

The Search for Pan!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-860

Notes: The last page includes an advertisement for Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #1 (1962).