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Issue: Tales to Astonish #8
Publication Date: March 1960
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Issues: #8 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: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in October 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 In12
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
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
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Mummex King of the Mummies, Lives Again!!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Mummex [Raaka]
First Line: Mummex walks again!!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
as Tales to Astonish #8 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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I Dared Defy the Floating Head!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Bruce; Hank Rogers; Mayor Robert F. Wagner, Jr. (cameo)
Synopsis: A giant floating head appears over New York, claiming that it is the advance scout of an alien invasion, and ordering everyone to evacuate. People panic when the head destroys a warehouse to demonstrate its power, but a young boy reveals that the whole thing is a hoax by criminals hoping to loot the empty city.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Creatures Roam #2 published September 1970
as I Dared Defy the Floating Head! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
as I Dared Defy the Floating Head! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: T-562
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I Live Again!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Evil [only called "The Thing from Bald Mountain" in a caption]
Synopsis: The animated statue rises up from where it fell in the last story and decides to go to America so that it can conquer the world. When it arrives it hides in a building that is actually a rocket that is shot into space.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Creatures Roam #3 published November 1970
as I Live Again! [Story on Interior Page(s)]monster called 'Monster on Bald Mountain' instead; captions altered
In Content Item: FlagMonster Menace #3 published February 1994
as I Live Again! [Story on Interior Page(s)]monster called 'Monster on Bald Mountain' instead; monster originally called "The Thing from Bald Mountain"
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
as I Live Again! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-565
Disclose Notes: Story continued from last issue. Narrated in the third person. The creation of the creature recounted in this difference is different from that in the last (it was made of clay, not stone. This doesn't seem to just be a script problem, since the monster also looks different.
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New Glasses

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Herbert; Mr. Blooper
Synopsis: A man insists on getting a specially made pair of glasses in a hurry, and finds that the optician has a magical corridor that leads back in time.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
as New Glasses [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagSpellbound #30 published October 1956
was New Glasses [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-368
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 16, 24 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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I–Am–The–Genie!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Freddy
Synopsis: A criminal finds a genie and uses it to wreak havoc, but when he goes too far he takes the genie’s place in the bottle.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFear #1 published November 1970
as I – Am – The – Genie! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDoomsday #8 published April 1973
as I-Am-The-Genie! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
as I-Am-The-Genie! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: T-559
Disclose Notes: Story continues in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #9.
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Mummex---King of the Mummies!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Mummex [Raaka]; Paul Fleming; Sara
Synopsis: An archaeologist finds a giant mummy in the Egyptian desert. It rises and searches the tombs and museums of the area, examining several mummies before returning into the desert. The scientist follows it and sees the mummy enter a spaceship and lift-off. It was actually an explorer looking for missing space pilots, who wear mummy-like bandages as protective suits.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFear #1 published November 1970
as Mummex---King of the Mummies! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
as Mummex --- King of the Mummies! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: T-563
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the second person.

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