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Issue: Tales to Astonish #16

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Publication Date: February 1961

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Issues: #16 of 101 Issues (177 Printings)

Title:

Variant: No Price

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

Brand:

Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN:

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
6 (5 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s):

Notes: Printed without cover price, perhaps accidentally, distribution could be regional or in the United Kingdom and therefore on-sale date would be indeterminant. Price is from indicia.

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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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Variants3

2 Tales to Astonish #16 [unnamed variant]

Tales to Astonish #16 [British]

Tales to Astonish #16 [No Price]

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Cover, Front

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Content Items (6 total)

This Is Thorr!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, science fiction

Character(s): Thorr

First Line: I warned you!

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Here Comes... Thorr the Unbelievable

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, science fiction

Character(s): Thorr [renamed "Thorg" in later reprints]; Linus; Helen

First Line: The first thing I remember is the plane ride over the Pacific!

Synopsis: When Professor Linus mistakenly wakes up Thorr the Unbelievable he has to stop him from waking up his fellow warriors and taking over the world.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Job Number: V-15

The Bridge

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: espionage, fantasy, occult

Character(s): Dr. Title; Douglas Jenks

First Line: A babble of strange voices welled around Dr. Title's ears as he wandered along the...

Synopsis: A government agent retrieves a classified microfilm stolen to be given to enemy agents, and is helped by a magic bridge.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Job Number: J-707

Notes: Text story with illustration; pages were printed in reverse order.

My Touch Means... Doom!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Bill Howard; Martha Howard; Dr. Johnson

First Line: Hurry--run from me if you value your life!

Synopsis: A teller plans to rob his bank to pay for his wife's surgery. The guard on duty doesn't carry a gun, but the thief experiences a terrifying vision where he is irradiated and made deadly to the touch while trying to escape. It turns out that the new guard is a "psychiatrist hypnotist" who gave him the vision.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Job Number: V-27

Notes: Narrated in the third person.

Save Me from the Mole Men!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Crusher; Xoorr

First Line: They're coming!

Synopsis: A fighter who is cruel and likes to hurt his opponents finds out that there are some creatures stronger than him, and they like to hurt their opponents also.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: V-28

I Am the Victim of the Sorcerer!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, occult

Character(s): Joe

First Line: You can never escape me!

Synopsis: A bedraggled man wanders through a misty night, unsure of his identity. He is finally forced to return to his prison in a painting, where he has been trapped since betraying a sorcerer.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: V-31