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Issue: Astounding Stories #44
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Issues: #44 of 195 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagAlan Class
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Indicia Publisher: Alan Class & Co. Ltd
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 68
ISBN:
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Price: 12.0 pence GBQ 0-1-0
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Content Items: 14 (13 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Alan Class (reprint editor)
Disclose Notes: Issue indexed from GCD Error Report 12308 by Ger Apeldoorn.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color cover; Black and White interior
Dimensions: 7.25" x 9.25"
Paper Stock: Glossy cover newsprint interior
Binding: Perfect Bound
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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The Unknown Protector!!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Editor(s): Stan Lee (original editor)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Ant-Man
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Stan Goldberg ?
Inker(s): Stan Goldberg ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): K. P. McGoof
Character(s): K. P. McGoof
First Line: I need one more K. P. Sarg!
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Pages: 1
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Trapped by the Protecter! [Part 1]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Astonishing Ant-Man
Character(s): Ant-Man [Henry Pym]; Protector [Gerald Marsh]
First Line: Each day a thousand tales are etched in the city!
Synopsis: Ant-Man deals with a dangerous extortionist, who turns out to be disguised as one of the victimized jewellers.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: "Protector" spelled wrong in title.
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[Trapped by the Protecter!] Part 2 Face-to-Face With the Protector!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Letterer(s): Jon D'Agostino
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Ant-Man
Character(s): Ant-Man [Henry Pym]; Protector [Gerald Marsh]
First Line: The Protector is at 600 Harley Avenue, extorting money from a jeweler!
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Pages: 8
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Afraid to Dream!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Penciller(s): Don Heck (signed)
Inker(s): Don Heck (signed)
Letterer(s): Jon D'Agostino
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Harry Fiske
First Line: In another half-hour it will be midnight!
Synopsis: A man whose dreams come true is terrified when he dreams his own death. He isolates himself all day, but is killed by an avalanche.
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Pages: 5
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The Star Raiders

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (signed)
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko [as S. Ditko] (signed)
Inker(s): Steve Ditko [as S. Ditko] (signed)
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Brock; Zenogg
First Line: Here comes the guard!
Synopsis: A group of escaped convicts turned pirates are tricked into attacking a planet they believe defenceless by a man who claims the inhabitants are ‘midgets’ neglecting to mention that they are only midgets compared to him.
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Pages: 5
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The Impossible Tunnel!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Letterer(s): Ray Holloway ?; Artie Simek (splash)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Robert Saunders; Omor
Synopsis: Robert Saunders wants to build a sub-oceanic tunnel from North America to Europe. He discovers a gentle underground civilization and he destroys the tunnel to protect them from the upper world.
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Pages: 6
Job Number: V-629
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The Monster Escapes!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Letterer(s): Ray Holloway ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: An alien planning to invade Earth crash lands and tries to find a rocket to escape. Instead, he accidentally conceals himself in an airtight time capsule and suffocates.
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Pages: 6
Job Number: V-555
Disclose Notes: The alien conveniently wrote his log in English "to study our language."
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Nothing Can Save Us!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Letterer(s): Ray Holloway ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Capt. Rick Marshall
Synopsis: Trapped on a small planet a group of space pilots almost kill a space dragon out of fear until they realize that it protects the planet from runaway asteroids.
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Pages: 6
Job Number: V-615
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Dance, You Fool

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Penciller(s): Don Heck (signed)
Inker(s): Don Heck (signed)
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Carlos Carter
First Line: I am a rooming house... old, shabby and weatherworn!
Synopsis: An unsuccessful dancer overhears the old man in the room next to him saying that his old pair of dancing shoes can make anyone a great dancer. He steals the shoes from the old man, but finds that he can never stop dancing.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Narrated by the rooming house where the protagonist lives.
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I Know the Secret of the Sea-Monster!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
Penciller(s): Paul Reinman
Inker(s): Paul Reinman
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Rogers
First Line: The first one to make the nightmarish discovery was a fisherman...
Synopsis: A sea serpent is sighted and causes panic, drawing a military response culminating in a nuclear strike. The serpent retreats beneath the surface, but a reporter that communicated with it explains that it was a harmless lost alien child. And if that's the child, how big will the parents be?
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Pages: 8
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The Man on the Endless Stairway!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (signed)
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Inker(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Carl Cragg
First Line: The stairway had to end somewhere!
Synopsis: A fugitive runs up a staircase to hide from police, but when he runs back down the staircase descends into hell.
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Pages: 5
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The Big Wheel of Bleeker Street

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio ?
Inker(s): Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio ?
Letterer(s): Jon D'Agostino
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
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Pages: 3
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Better Times Ahead!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Tom Hickey
Inker(s): Tom Hickey
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Robert Perry; Charlie Boone
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Pages: 1

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