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Issue: Astonishing Tales #18
Publication Date: June 1973
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Issues: #18 of 36 Issues (70 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: 03/20/1973
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.20 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from The Comic Reader #94, February 1973.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US and later standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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Some/all of Issue reprinted as/in 2 other Issues:
FlagMockingbird: Bobbi Morse, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #[nn] published January 2016
FlagMarvel Masterworks: Ka-Zar #2 [unnamed variant] published January 2018
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Adult Image
Title Page
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A Monster Stalks These Streets!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Gog Cometh!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): (Barbara) Bobbi Morse (Agent 19 of S.H.I.E.L.D.); Gemini [Damian Link with Joshua Link's mind controlling] (villain); Victor Conrad [Victorius] (introduction)
Synopsis: Ka-Zar manages to get the super-soldier serum back from Gemini. Gog uses his alien powers to transport himself away while Gemini and Lord Plunder escape. Professor Victor Conrad takes the original super-soldier serum when SHIELD attempts to destroy his lab and the formula and finds himself transformed into Victorius.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 20
Job Number: 1380-Z
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Bite-Size Bits and Beatific Bromides! (Or: Half a Bullpen Page Is Better Than None!)

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (promo copy)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Items about how Stan Lee is so busy that he is going to forego writing his Soapbox for now, Monsters Unleashed is the newest magazine to come out (including a Solomon Kane tale by Robert E. Howard and a werewolf thriller by Robert Bloch), next month we'll talk about Tales of the Zombie and Vampire Tales, a plug for the current Spider-Man super-spectacular and the debut of the new digest-sized magazine called Haunt of Horror edited by Gerry Conway (with help from Roy Thomas and George Alec Effinger) with stories by Fritz Leiber, Harlan Ellison, R.A. Lafferty and others and a cover illustration by Gray Morrow.
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The Ultimate Fan Club!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): FOOM
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Advertisement for a subscription to FOOM describing what is included (a 22" x 28" poster, a membership card, a fistful of stick-ons, full year's subscription to FOOM magazine and a special surprise envelope that everything comes in).
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[untitled]

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Includes letters from (and answers to) Richard Lyczak, J.B. and Howard L. Miller.
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Warning! A Nefarious New, Giant-Size Comic-Mag Has Escaped From the Vaults of Macabre Marvel!

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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Advertisement for Monsters Unleashed #1 using a panel from the first story in the issue and a description of the contents.

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