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Issue: Tales to Astonish #96
Publication Date: October 1967
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Issues: #96 of 101 Issues (177 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 07/11/1967
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 5 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1967 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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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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Disclose Reprinted In9
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Somewhere Stands... Skull Island!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Plunderer [Edgar Plunder]
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagEssential Hulk #2 published January 2001
as Somewhere Stands... Skull Island! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]black and white
In Content Item: FlagThe Incredible Hulk Omnibus #1 [Jack Kirby Cover] published January 2008
as Tales to Astonish #96 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Somewhere Stands... Skull Island!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Lady Dorma; Grand Vizier Vashti; Princess Fen (flashback, Namor's mother); Plunderer [Edgar Plunder] (villain)
First Line: Let the leaders of Atlantis gather to my throne!
Synopsis: Before conducting war against the surface-dwellers, Namor visits the Savage Land beneath the continent of Antarctica. Dorma, against orders, follows behind him. Meanwhile the Plunderer, unknown to the Atlanteans, has constructed a base on Skull Island and as Namor and Dorma approach, fires on them. Namor is captured while Dorma flees back to Atlantis.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagI Fantastici Quattro #55 published May 1973
as L'isola del Teschio [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Super-Heroes #51 published July 1975
as Somewhere Stands... Skull Island! [Story on Interior Page(s)]minus 3 pages
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
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A Sagacious Smattering of Scuttlebutt, Scoops, and Space-Wasting Small-Talk!

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]
First Line: This one's gonna flip you outta your crow's nest!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Items, Stan's Soapbox, The Mighty Marvel Checklist, Let's Meet 26 More M.M.M.S. Members!
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What Have I Created?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; High Evolutionary; New Men (villains)
First Line: Picture yourself upon the distant planet Wundagore II, ruled by the...
Synopsis: With Banner trapped and about to be evolved by the High Evolutionary, the New Men attack and stop the experiment. Banner becomes the Hulk and fights the New Men. The Evolutionary decides that the only way to stop his former creations is to do to himself what he planned on doing to Banner--evolving himself a thousand years into humanity's future. He does so and becomes a transcendent being who devolves his New Men back into animals before melting into cosmic consciousness. The Hulk is left alone on Wundagore II, the only sentient being on a lonely planet.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Super-Heroes #51 published July 1975
as What Have I Created? [Story on Interior Page(s)]minus 1 page
In Content Item: FlagThe Incredible Hulk #2 (82559-3) published January 1979
as What Have I Created? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Hulk #2 published January 2001
as What Have I Created? [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white
In Content Item: FlagThe Incredible Hulk Omnibus #1 [Jack Kirby Cover] published January 2008
as What Have I Created? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]
First Line: Dear Stan, I just bought the latest batch of Marvels, and, as usual, I couldn't...
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Incredible Hulk Omnibus #1 [Jack Kirby Cover] published January 2008
as [untitled] [Letters Page on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from Charles Meyerson, Scott Campbell, and Alan Siegel. Includes an image from an earlier issue in advertisement for The Merry Marvel Marching Society membership kit.

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