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Issue: Tales to Astonish #21
Publication Date: July 1961
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Issues: #21 of 101 Issues (177 Printings)
Title:
Is Variant Variant: British
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN:
Price: 9.0 pence GBQ 0-0-9
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
6 (5 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 cover month removed.
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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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It's Trull...the Inhuman!!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
Character(s): Trull; Phil; Bart Hanson; Gloria
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Trull! The Inhuman!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
Character(s): Trull; Phil; Bart Hanson; Gloria
First Line: The universe: An endless stage containing countless dramas!
Synopsis: The mental essence of an alien bent on global conquest takes over a steam shovel and is defeated by an elephant.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: V-192
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. The story differs from others like it because the hero does not try to win the affection of the previously shrewish female, but instead gives her the cold shoulder at the end.
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[Trull! The Inhuman!], Part 2

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Trull; Phil; Bart Hanson; Gloria
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-192
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Time Machine

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: I think the first time I really began to think seriously about...
Synopsis: A man's fascination with history leads him to build a time machine and travel to the past, but when he sees the dangers of time travel he destroys the machine and blueprints.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: G-85
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Narrated in the first person.
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The Silent Screen

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Hulk
First Line: The house lights dim!
Synopsis: An infinite loop story about a monster who repeatedly steps out of a movie screen.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: V-193
Disclose Notes: Story credited to Stan Lee in issue #26 (December 1961). Stan must have wondered about the appeal of this type of story because he specifically asks for reader comment at the end of it.
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Open Wider, Please

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: His face is without expression, without vitality!
Synopsis: A dentist in 2030 discovers that his patient is a robot from Mars and calls the police. The Martian robot is stopped, and the dentist is relieved, since he wants nothing to stop the infiltration of Venusian robots like him.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: V-194
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person.

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