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Issue: Tales to Astonish #2
Publication Date: March 1959
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Issues: #2 of 101 Issues (131 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Zenith Publishing Corp.
On Sale Date: 11/1958
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements (pages 2, 9, 15, 19, 25, 27, 33-36 of comic including inside front cover, inside back cover and back cover) ; pages of comic not numbered. All new stories in this issue are narrated in the first person.

Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
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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
Format Notes:  
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images2
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
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My Job: Capture a Martian!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Mr. Garner
First Line: I knew it!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
as Tales to Astonish #2 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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When Aliens Meet!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Dunstan Craig
First Line: How could I convince an alien race that I was more than an unthinking beast, when I...
Synopsis: A ruthless outer space game hunter captures specimens for zoos, but when he is forced to crash land on an alien world the inhabitants see him as an animal and put him in a zoo. He escapes, but resolves never to cage another animal.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
as When Aliens Meet! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAdventures into the Unknown #13 published ?
as When Aliens Meet! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-138
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Trouble Bubble

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Jonathan Jr.; Nora; Jonathan Sr.; Mr. Bigger
First Line: If there was some way to keep Jonathan, Jr. busy on a rainy day, his mother fervently...
Synopsis: A boy discovers a formula to blow unbreakable bubbles and accidentally entraps his father's boss.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
as Trouble Bubble [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAdventures into the Unknown #13 published ?
as Trouble Bubble [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Unknown Worlds #49 published September 1956
was Trouble Bubble [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-160
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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I Fell to the Center of the Earth!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Henry Burke
First Line: My name is Henry Burke!
Synopsis: A scientist drills into the core of the Earth, and somehow travels back in time, where he witnesses a dinosaur attacking neanderthals.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
as I Fell to the Center of the Earth! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAdventures into the Unknown #13 published ?
as I Fell to the Center of the Earth! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-126
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I Was a Man in Hiding!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Harry Grant; Anne Grant
First Line: What a fool I was!
Synopsis: A man in 2087 robs a payroll and flees to a primitive world to avoid detection by his electric wrist band. Once he arrives he realizes that the people there are a fraction of the size of humans, and so he can be easily found.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #199 published January 1984
as I Was a Man in Hiding! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
as I Was a Man in Hiding! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAdventures into the Unknown #13 published ?
as I Was a Man in Hiding! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: T-136
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I Spent Eternity in a Deep Freeze!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Joe Sykes; Martha Sykes
First Line: It was midnight!
Synopsis: A petty criminal volunteers to be sent in deep freeze to the end of the universe and back. When he awakens he finds that he has looped through space and time and it now in an alternate dimension when he can not be seen or heard.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #142 published January 1974
as I Spent Eternity in a Deep Freeze! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
as I Spent Eternity in a Deep Freeze! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAdventures into the Unknown #13 published ?
as I Spent Eternity in a Deep Freeze! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: T-141
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My Job: Capture a Martian

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Mr. Garner; Professor Webb
First Line: Speaking of the impossible, that's exactly what was expected of me!
Synopsis: A private detective humours a man who says he saw a flying saucer with an investigation, but he convinces the man it is pointless. He feels bad for his harsh words, but reports back to Mars that suspicion of their invasion has been averted.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #199 published January 1984
as My Job: Capture a Martian [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
as My Job: Capture a Martian [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAdventures into the Unknown #13 published ?
as My Job: Capture a Martian [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-139

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