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Issue: Tales to Astonish #38

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Publication Date: December 1962

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Issues: #38 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: (not set)

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 #38 [U.S. Cover Price]

Tales to Astonish #38 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (5 total)

Betrayed by the Ants!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Ant-Man [Henry Pym]; Egghead [Elihas Starr]

First Line: You're hopelessly stuck to that flypaper, Ant-Man!

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Pages: 1

Betrayed by the Ants!!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Ant-Man [Henry Pym]; Egghead [Elihas Starr] (introduction, origin)

First Line: Since the appearance of the amazing Ant-Man, the bustling metropolis has...

Synopsis: An scientist is hired by crooks to defeat Ant-Man. He tries to turn the ants against the hero and trap him, but the ants are loyal to Ant-Man and he foils Egghead's scheme.

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Pages: 10

Notes: Egghead is the first villain to reappear and become a member of Ant-Man's rogues gallery (such as it was), becoming his arch-enemy; he next appears in issue #45 (July 1963).

Strange Mission

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Writer(s): ?

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Alfred Pook; Harold; Dr. Smith

First Line: It was obvious that something was wrong.

Synopsis: A man becomes confused over directions to the dentist and as a result accidentally pilots an expedition to claim a new planet.

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Pages: 2

Job Number: K-440

Notes: Text story with illustration.

I Found the Impossible World!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): John Fleming; Bartho; Ricca

First Line: You are about to witness one of the boldest scientific...

Synopsis: An experimental time machine seems to fail, aging its inventor 10 years. In fact he travelled into a fantastic future, but had his memory erased as punishment for trying to sow discord.

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Pages: 8

Secret of the Statues!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Gizzard

First Line: Where does art leave off and real life begin??

Synopsis: An art critic visits a sculptor to give him his opinion of his work. He tells the crestfallen man that his statues appear lifeless. He faints when one of the statues calls him a fool. It turns out the 'statues' were aliens attempting to pose as Earthlings in order to infiltrate. They deposit the critic outside and depart Earth.

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Pages: 5