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Issue: Tales to Astonish #14
Publication Date: December 1960
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Issues: #14 of 101 Issues (177 Printings)
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Is Variant Variant: British
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Zenith Books 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: 1 (0 stories, 1 cover)
6 (4 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
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Disclose Notes: A price variant intended for distribution in the United Kingdom, with replaced cover price and Thorpe & Porter distribution appended to indicia.
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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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Pages: 1
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I Created Krang! The Most Fantastic Monster The World Has Ever Known!, Chapter One

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
Character(s): Krang; Professor Carter; Ludwig
Synopsis: A scientist's formula makes an ant giant and super-intelligent. The ant wants to conquer the world, but is killed by a giant ant-eater.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: T-901
Disclose Notes: This story is divided into two chapters: an untitled chapter one (7 pp) and chapter two—"Krang!" (6 pp). This is one of the first two 'feature-length' monster stories published by Marvel (the other was "I Was the Slave of the Living Hulk!" published simultaneously in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #62). Three months later, these stories would be added to all four Marvel SF anthologies, and the next year a fifth series including them would be launched.
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Krang!: Chapter Two

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Krang; Professor Carter; Ludwig
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Pages: 6
Job Number: T-901
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 12-14, 16-18 of comic (pages of story numbered 8 to 13).
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The Remedy Oil

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Mrs. Gerrity; Tom Gerrity; Officer O'Malley; Logarithm
Synopsis: An old-fashioned shopkeeper unwittingly saves the life of a boy from Mechanica when her remedy oil lubricates the gears in his brain.
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Pages: 2
Job Number: J-984
Disclose Notes: Text story with two illustrations. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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Behold! I Am the Master of Time!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult, science fiction
Synopsis: In a black magic book, a thief finds instructions for creating a time machine which runs on electricity, but after robbing people in the 18th century and attempting to return to the 20th, he realizes he is stuck in the past because there is no electricity in the 18th century.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: T-889
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The Thing in Human Form!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Ogor; 'John Cummings' [Zeno]
Synopsis: A Martian is sent to Earth to kidnap a human scientist who has invented a weapon that Mars wants to use against Jupiter. The Martian is beaten by the scientist, who turns out to be a Jovian agent setting a trap to capture a live Martian.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: [T-???]

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