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Issue: Tales to Astonish #33

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Publication Date: July 1962

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Issues: #33 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 #33 [unnamed variant]

Tales to Astonish #33 [British]

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Cover, Front

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Content Items (6 total)

Dead Storage!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Victor Marshall

First Line: No--no!!!

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Dead Storage

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Victor Marshall; Koru

First Line: Look carefully at this man...

Synopsis: A burnt-out actor stumbles upon an alien invasion, and gives the best performance of his life to save Earth.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Job Number: V-705

Notes: The third and sixth pages include advertisements at the top and bottom tiers for the Incredible Hulk ("Have You Seen the Hulk?"; "The Hulk is Coming!"). The last page includes an advertisement for the Fantastic Four, ("You've never read a comic like The Fantastic Four! Get your spine-chilling copy today!)

The Comic

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

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Inker(s): ? (illustration)

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy, occult

Character(s): Stan Wepp

First Line: Stan Wepp stood before the lights, watched the teleprompter, the studio...

Synopsis: A bored television comedian is mysteriously transported back to the small mining town and small theatres that he loves.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Job Number: [J-214]

The Frightened Man!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): John Bentley

First Line: How would you like to escape from the worries and fears of this atomic age?

Synopsis: A scientist tries to use a time machine to escape the dangers of the modern world, but he finds that every era has its dangers.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Job Number: V-706

Notes: This story seems to be a retelling of "Time Machine", a text story first published in Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #57 (March 1957) and reprinted many times subsequently; it shares the same structure and moral, though the motive for building a time machine is different. The second and fourth pages include advertisements for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series).

The Voice of Fate!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, occult

Character(s): Walter Krugg

First Line: Can a man control his own destiny?

Synopsis: The Fates make a wager over whether humans will ever understand that they cannot escape them. One of them tells a jewel thief that he will be punished, but he defies fate and flees the country, thinking that since the US is in World War II he will never be found and punished in Hiroshima.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Notes: This story is a retelling of "Mister Black", drawn by Gene Colan in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #93 (February 1962) with an American protaganist instead of a Japanese one. The second and fourth pages include advertisements for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series).

The Absent-Minded Professor!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Professor Blank

Synopsis: A college professor is certain that life exists upon other worlds, but can't quite remember why he is so assured of this fact. One evening he is abducted by aliens and he receives his answer. The aliens tell him the reason for his abduction is that years ago the aliens sent a spy to Earth, but failed to hear back from him, and the captain of the spaceship realizes that he should not have sent an absent-minded spy. The professor realizes that he is the alien spy.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Notes: First page caption: "It's time once again to match wits with Lee and Ditko!!" The third page includes an advertisement for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series), the last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko.