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Issue: Tales to Astonish #4
Publication Date: July 1959
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Issues: #4 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: (not set)
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): Stan Lee
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in March 1959. 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:  
Disclose Reprinted In17
Disclose Reprinted From1
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
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Adult Image
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The Day the Martians Struck

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Darius Wolfe
First Line: I never knew he was so good!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
as Tales to Astonish #4 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #27 published ?
as The Day the Martians Struck [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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I Was a Prisoner of the Martians!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): Martin Epp ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Darius Wolf; Miss Smyth; Malcolm Avery
First Line: My directing was brilliant... everything was going along on schedule... it was to be...
Synopsis: A bullying director is kidnapped by Martians using the science fiction movie he's filming as a cover. They're forced to land because of a malfunction, and explain that they'll have to let him go...if one of the actors or crew that he abused tries to rescue him.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreatures on the Loose #21 published January 1973
as I Was a Prisoner of the Martians! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCapitaine America #23 published July 1973
as J'ai été prisonnier des Martiens! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagI Fantastici Quattro #115 published September 1975
as Imprigionato dai marziani [Story on Interior Page(s)]as "Imprigionato dai marziani", Italian translation
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
as I Was a Prisoner of the Martians! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: [T-247]
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Masquerade

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Tommy; Kitty Blake; Old King Cole
First Line: Tommy used to be the fellow from Missouri...
Synopsis: A man with no imagination is invited to a costume party by his girlfriend, but stumbles across real fairy-tale folk instead.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
as Masquerade [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Unknown Worlds #38 published October 1955
was Masquerade [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: G-750
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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My Forbidden Paintings!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): Martin Epp ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Ashley Crane
First Line: The old man warned me!
Synopsis: A painter buys a magic brush with the power to make three paintings become real. He makes himself handsome and a famous painter. Finally he makes himself dictator of a European country, but one of his paintings inspires the people to revolt and depose him, leaving him imprisoned.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #142 published January 1974
as My Forbidden Paintings! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
as My Forbidden Paintings! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-249
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I Made Time Stand Still

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Sydney Burr
First Line: My name is Sydney Burr!
Synopsis: An inventor accidentally makes time stand still, leaving himself the only person able to move. He robs everyone before restarting time, but it turns out all the frozen people could see what he did and he is arrested.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #20 published December 1972
as I Made Time Stand Still [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #199 published January 1984
as I Made Time Stand Still [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #217 published January 1984
as I Made Time Stand Still [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFantomet #1/1985 published January 1985
as Tidsmaskinen [Story on Interior Page(s)]as "Tidsmaskinen", Norwegian translation
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
as I Made Time Stand Still [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: T-250?
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I Love a Mermaid!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Alethea
First Line: For years something seemed to draw me to the sea--I spent every moment I could in...
Synopsis: A man always drawn to the sea falls in love with a mermaid. When he dives under the water to pursue her, he realizes that he is also a merman, and his yearning for the sea was a yearning for home.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagGiant-Size Chillers #2 published May 1975
as I Love a Mermaid! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
as I Love a Mermaid! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: T-251
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The Man Who Floats in Space!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Capt. Racer; Bogane
First Line: Look! There he is!
Synopsis: Space pirates get the idea of using an empty space suit floating in space as a decoy to lure in unsuspecting freighters to be ambushed, but an intelligence operative hides in the space suit to signal the space patrol when they get close, and together they apprehend the leader of the space pirates.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
as The Man Who Floats in Space! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-248

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