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Issue: Tales to Astonish #48

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Publication Date: October 1963

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Issues: #48 of 101 Issues (131 Printings)

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Variant: UK Cover Price

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Publisher: Flag

Marvel

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Volume: 1

Pages: 36

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Price: none entered

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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 #48 [U.S. Cover Price]

Tales to Astonish #48 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (5 total)

Ant-Man and The Wasp Battle: The Porcupine

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Ant-Man [Henry Pym]; Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]; Porcupine [Alexander Gentry]

First Line: Ant-Man is drowning, and I'm powerless to save him!

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Pages: 1

Ant-Man and the Wasp Defy the Porcupine!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Ant-Man [Henry Pym]; Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]; The Porcupine [Alex Gentry] (introduction, origin)

First Line: That's an army ordnance plane below us, Jan!

Synopsis: 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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Pages: 13

Job Number: X-387

The Inventor

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Ned Carter; Mr. Jonas

First Line: Ned Carter was a janitor, but he didn't like it very much.

Synopsis: 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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Pages: 2

Job Number: [F-889]

Notes: Text story with illustration.

Grayson's Gorilla!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Harvey Grayson

First Line: Ever wish you had the strength of a gorilla?

Synopsis: 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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Pages: 5

Job Number: X-388

Notes: This is a retelling of "I Am The Gorilla-Man" drawn by Jack Kirby in issue #28 (February 1962).

The Little Green Man!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Jasper Jenks

First Line: Jasper Jenks made a deal with the little green man!

Synopsis: 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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Pages: 5

Job Number: [X-389 ?]