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Issue: Tales to Astonish #28

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Publication Date: February 1962

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Issues: #28 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)
6 (5 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 #28 [unnamed variant]

Tales to Astonish #28 [British]

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Content Items (6 total)

I Am the Gorilla-Man!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Gorilla-Man [Franz Radzik]

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Pages: 1

I Am the... Gorilla-Man

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Gorilla-Man [Franz Radzik]

First Line: You... come closer...

Synopsis: An inventor transfers his mind into a gorilla to commit crimes, but the gorilla controlling his body turns against him.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Job Number: V-488

The Green Hat

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ? (illustration)

Inker(s): ? (illustration)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy, occult

Character(s): Axtel; George; Chuck

First Line: George is a guy who knows more about flying saucers and Mars men than all...

Synopsis: A recent graduate meets a strange man and finds that they share a gift to commune with the Green Goddess.

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Pages: 2

Job Number: G-537

Midnight on Haunted Hill

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Billy Jones/Brown (last name inconsistent)

First Line: All boys like to read astonishing fiction!

Synopsis: A boy sees an alien landing, but no one believes him until the spaceship comes back. They didn't realize that a tree on a hill was really an alien being.

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Pages: 6

Job Number: V-489

The Scheme!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: historical, horror

Character(s): John Bentley; Anne Wentworth

First Line: This may look like a love story!

Synopsis: An insolvent cad marries a rich widow dying of a terminal sickness for her money, but finds when she dies that the disease is contagious and he has only months to live.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-480

The Frightening Fog

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

First Line: It is morning!

Synopsis: A mysterious fog envelops the entire world for days, terrifying everyone. It was actually created by benevolent alien peacekeepers to hide Earth from an invasion.

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Pages: 5

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