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Issue: Tales to Astonish #6
Publication Date: November 1959
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Issues: #6 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 July 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:  
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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
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I Saw the Invasion of the Stone Men!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Inker(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
First Line: They're coming from the depths of the earth!!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
as Tales to Astonish #6 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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I Saw the Invasion of the Stone Men

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Prof. George Ailen
First Line: For years I tried to warn the world of the dread underground menace, but they...
Synopsis: Stone men rise out of the ground and set off a panic. A geologist realizes that the creatures are just explorers and will return underground on their own.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagStrange Tales Annual #1 published January 1962
as I Saw the Invasion of the Stone Men [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
as I Saw the Invasion of the Stone Men [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-383
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Patent Pending

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): inventor; Joe; Timothy Braun
First Line: A flower pot crashed outside my workshop window and when I...
Synopsis: A teenager is inventing a mechanical potato peeler, but a supernatural figure stops him to preserve the culture of hand-peeling potatoes in kitchens.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
as Patent Pending [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagMystic #47 published May 1956
was Patent Pending [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: J-215
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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I Was the Man Under Glass!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Darius Cartwright; John Cartwright
First Line: The year 3,000 marked the beginning of the greatest age in...
Synopsis: An arrogant businessman becomes governor of an alien planet and lives in an oxygen-filled dome, forbidding the natives from entering. When his oxygen pump breaks he has so thoroughly frightened them that none will come to his aid, and he slowly runs out of air.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
as I Was the Man Under Glass! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-377
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 10-14 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
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I Laughed at the Great God, Pan!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Norman; Diane; Pan
First Line: It happened the time I took Diane to the art museum!
Synopsis: A man with his date at the museum laughs at the painting of Pan. The museum guard chastises him for it, and he leaves. Later, his date sees him on the street and asks him why his hair has fallen out. He doesn't tell her that, as they were leaving the museum, he looked back at the guard walking down the hall and saw that the man had cloven hooves.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #17 published January 1963
as I Laughed at the Great God, Pan! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #156 published January 1975
as I Laughed at the Great God, Pan! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
as I Laughed at the Great God, Pan! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: T-385
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I Became a...Human Bomb!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: What have I done?!!
Synopsis: A criminal sneaks aboard an experimental nuclear missile planning to hijack it and sell it to the Soviets, but after the rocket launches he discovers that it lacks internal control.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagStrange Tales Annual #1 published January 1962
as I Became a...Human Bomb! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
as I Became a... Human Bomb! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: T-386
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I Was a Prisoner of the Living Statues!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Kisumu; Ngami
First Line: From some world across the heavens, they came...
Synopsis: Alien invaders disguise themselves as wooden statues from an African village to infiltrate the homes of the wealthy and powerful, but their plans fail because the coats of varnish added by the exporters immobilize them.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #17 published January 1963
as I Was a Prisoner of the Living Statues! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #156 published January 1975
as I Was a Prisoner of the Living Statues! [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 Prisoner of the Living Statues! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-384
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

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