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Issue: Tales to Astonish #29

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Publication Date: March 1962

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Issues: #29 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

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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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Tales to Astonish #29 [unnamed variant]

Tales to Astonish #29 [British]

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Content Items (6 total)

When the Space Beasts Attack!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

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Pages: 1

When the Space Beasts Attack!!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Jeb

First Line: Laughter can express many different things!

Synopsis: An alien armada lands on Earth with weapons that seem to disintegrate anything. Humanity is helpless before the aliens, until they demand a man vacate his farm in order to make way for a spaceport. The farmer gets so angry he lays the alien out with the butt of his rifle. The aliens disintegrate things like trucks and houses, but they don't fire at people. Once the farmer realizes this and spreads the word, the aliens retreat from the human's firearms.

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Pages: 7

The Clock

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ? (illustration)

Inker(s): ? (illustration)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy, occult

Character(s): Franz Ammergau; Gerda; Dr. Schmitt

First Line: The snow fell quietly in the little Alpine village, and...

Synopsis: An old clockmaker nearly dies from the cold, but is saved by the wooden figures adorning his clocks, which he has given parts of his own soul.

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Pages: 2

Job Number: K-9

Notes: Text story with illustration.

The Man Who Blew Up the Earth!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Elias Cragston

First Line: There it is--spinning in its orbit as it has done for 2 billion years!

Synopsis: A jilted Quasimodo-like scientist devotes all his energy into producing a cobalt bomb which is so powerful that it can shatter the Earth. He wants to destroy all of mankind for jeering at his ugliness. He sneaks on board a rocket that is going into orbit and releases the bomb, but forgot about the lack of gravitational pull, and so the bomb just remains in place until it detonates against the side of the rocket. On Earth, the woman who laughed at him when he proposed marriage, gazes skyward at the explosion and exclaims "Isn't it the most beautiful sight you've ever seen?"

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Pages: 6

Job Number: V-498

Notes: Apparently whoever wrote this story thought that the ending was uplifting. The last page includes an advertisement for Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series), also drawn by Kirby.

Dick Ayers Inks credit from Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 Series) #3.

What Happened to Harry?

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Harry Brown; Albert Poole

First Line: Ever see a timid soul?

Synopsis: A brilliant inventor's boss tries to steal his new time machine in order to take credit for it. He uses the time machine to travel to a different time, but ends up in the prehistoric period, where the electricity to power the time machine cannot be found.

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Pages: 5

Notes: Though many details are changed, this story is a retelling of "Behold! I Am the Master of Time!" drawn by Steve Ditko in issue #14 (December 1960).

Pencil credit from Tony Thomas on 13 August 2004. Original indexer credited Jack Kirby.

The Last Laugh!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, occult

Character(s): Happy Harper

First Line: There are few things more cruel, more vicious, than a heartless practical joke!

Synopsis: A vicious practical joker gets his comeuppance in the afterlife.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-500

Notes: The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series) also by Lee and Ditko.