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Issue: Tales to Astonish #30

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Publication Date: April 1962

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Issues: #30 of 101 Issues (131 Printings)

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Variant: UK Cover Price

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

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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

Editor(s): Stan Lee

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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 #30 [U.S. Cover Price]

Tales to Astonish #30 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (6 total)

The Thing from the Hidden Swamp!; Return of the Gorilla-Man!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): "Thing from the Hidden Swamp" (only referred to as such in title); Mary Brown; Gorilla-Man [Franz Radzic]

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Pages: 1

The Return of the Gorilla-Man

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Gorilla-Man [Franz Radzik]; Professor Stuyvesant

First Line: He's back!!

Synopsis: The Gorilla-Man escapes and tries to get himself transformed back into a human, but instead he is blasted into space in an experimental space capsule.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Job Number: [V-586] ?

Notes: Despite the end of the story in Tales to Astonish #28 seemingly indicating Gorilla-Man's mind regressing to that of a beast, in this issue Gorilla-Man's mental facility seems to be completely unimpaired.

The Remedy Oil

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Mrs. Gerrity; Tom Gerrity; Officer O'Malley; Logarithm

First Line: All of the fancy clothing stores on Main Street were doing a booming business at...

Synopsis: An old-fashioned shopkeeper unwittingly saves the life of a boy from Mechanica when her remedy oil lubricates the gears in his brain.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Job Number: J-984

Notes: Text story with illustrations.

The Thing from the Hidden Swamp

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Mary Brown; "The Thing from the Hidden Swamp" (only referred to as such in title)

First Line: There's no place quite as eerie as a dark, secluded swamp...

Synopsis: A plain girl helps a stranded alien, and is made beautiful as a reward.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Job Number: V-587

Notes: The last page includes an advertisement for Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series), also drawn by Jack Kirby.

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

What Was the Staggering Secret of the 13th Floor

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Willy Sloane; Mr. Jordan

First Line: Willy Sloane operated the oldest elevator in the oldest hotel in town!

Synopsis: An oddly cheerful elevator operator is held at gunpoint with a passer-by by a spy planning to blow up the hotel. The elevator lets the spy off at the 13th floor, and while the passer-by is terrified, the elevator operator simply fades away, explaining that the bomb will never go off, since there is no 13th floor.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-588

Quogg!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Quogg

First Line: Our scene is an outpost in Africa!

Synopsis: A fugitive hides in an enclosure said to contain a horrible monster, and realizes too late that the monster appeared to be an ordinary hut.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: V-589

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