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Issue: Tales to Astonish #55

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Publication Date: May 1964

Issue #55
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- #48
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- #50
- #51
- #52
- #53
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Detail

Issues: #55 of 101 Issues (177 Printings)

Title:

Variant: British

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

ISBN:

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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 (3 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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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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2 Tales to Astonish #55 [unnamed variant]

Tales to Astonish #55 [British]

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Content Items (5 total)

On the Trail of the Human Top!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Letters credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index.

On the Trail of the Human Top!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

First Line: At their New York lab, Giant-Man and the Wasp show their local fan club a...

Synopsis: The Human Top breaks out of prison. Giant-Man and the Wasp have to get him back. The Top uses Giant-Man's capsules to become giant and captures the Wasp, but Giant-Man distracts him while the Wasp frees herself and termites make the Top fall through a roof, allowing his recapture.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 18

Notes: The Human Top last appears in issue #51 (January 1964) and next appears in issue #55 (May 1964).

The Treasure!

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy, occult

Character(s): Tommy Miller; Mr. Miller; Mrs. Miller; Wish

Synopsis: A sick boy takes comfort from a stray dog that grants wishes.

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Pages: 1

Job Number: [G-980]

Notes: Text story with illustration. Continues from last issue. Printed between the pages of the Giant-Man story.

Two More Triumphs for Marvel..!

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Pages: 1

Notes: Advertises Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel, 1962 series) #12 (May 1964) and Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #26 (May 1964). Printed between the Giant-Man and Wasp Tells a Tale stories.

The Gypsy's Secret!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Gorko; Baron Radzic

First Line: We open with a typically peaceful, harmonious scene in Giant-Man's laboratory...

Synopsis: A cruel baron tries to force a gypsy to give him the secret of turning lead into gold, but the gypsy is really an alien looking for a human specimen for a zoo on his homeworld.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: X601