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Issue: Tales to Astonish #48
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Is Variant Variant: UK Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
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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
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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
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Ant-Man and The Wasp Battle: The Porcupine

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superhero
Ant-Man is drowning, and I'm powerless to save him!
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Ant-Man and the Wasp Defy the Porcupine!

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Torne; Alf
That's an army ordnance plant below us, Jan!
The Porcupine decides to rob a burglar-proof bank designed by Henry Pym. So, on the day of its opening, Henry and Janet are there. They have to stop him as Ant-Man and the Wasp.
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The Inventor

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science fiction
Ned Carter; Mr. Jonas
Ned Carter was a janitor, but he didn't like it very much.
A disgruntled janitor's obsessive effort to create a sweeping robot costs him his job and ends in failure, but only because he sees no use for a perpetual motion machine.
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Grayson's Gorilla!

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Harvey Grayson
Ever wish you had the strength of a gorilla?
A scientist tries to give himself the strength of a gorilla for his own ends. He switches bodies with one instead, and the newly human gorilla sends him to the zoo.
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This is a retelling of "I Am The Gorilla-Man" drawn by Jack Kirby in issue #28 (February 1962).
The Little Green Man!

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Jasper Jenks
Jasper Jenks made a deal with the little green man!
An unscrupulous pilot tricks an alien into refitting his plane, but throws the creature out instead of rewarding it. He only then discovers that the alien had not yet explained how to land with the new engine.
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