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Issue: Tales to Astonish #56

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Publication Date: June 1964

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Detail

Issues: #56 of 101 Issues (131 Printings)

Title:

Variant: UK Cover Price

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

Brand:

Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications, Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN:

Price: 9.0 pence GBQ 0-0-9

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
6 (3 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): Stan Lee

Notes: Distributed to newstands in March 1964. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.

Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

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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 #56 [U.S. Cover Price]

Tales to Astonish #56 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (6 total)

The Coming of the Magician!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Giant-Man [Henry Pym]; Wasp [Janet van Dyne]; Magician [Lee Guardineer]

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Pages: 1

The Coming of the Magician!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Giant-Man [Henry Pym]; Wasp [Janet van Dyne]; Magician [Lee Guardineer] (introduction); Sterling Stuyvesant

First Line: Passers-by in midtown New York are suddenly startled to notice a...

Synopsis: Janet goes to a party in the hope of making Hank jealous. There, she is captured by the Magician. Giant-Man hosts a fake party aboard a yacht to lure the Magician into a trap, allowing him to save Jan and capture the Magician with her help.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 18

Job Number: X-659

Notes: The Magician next appears in issue #58 (August 1964).

The Balloon

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Leroy; Zoop

First Line: As Leroy approached the store with his mother one bright and...

Synopsis: A young boy meets a tiny space traveler from Skyville, a suburb of Mars, trapped in a balloon.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Job Number: [K-267]

Notes: Continues in next issue. Printed between the pages of the Giant-Man story.

Two More Triumphs for Marvel..!

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 0.83

Notes: Advertises The Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #5 (May 1964) and Daredevil (Marvel, 1964 series) #1 (April 1964). Printed between the Giant-Man and Wasp Tells a Tale stories. This shares the page with the statement of ownership.

Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation

Statement of Ownership on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 0.17

Notes: Average monthly paid circulation/print run October 1962–September 1963 (issues #39–51): 189,685/321,646. Paid circulation/print run for issue #51: 187,995/318,339. This shares the page with the promo.

Beware the Bog Beast!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy

Feature(s): The Wasp Tells a Tale

Character(s): Wasp [Janet van Dyne] (narrator); Lorenzo; King Maximus; Giant-Man [Henry Pym] (in framing sequence)

First Line: Are you scrawny?

Synopsis: A suitor thought unworthy by the king wins the hand of the princess through cunning when strength fails.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: X-646

Notes: The ending of the story is not drawn, there is instead a scene of Jan telling Hank how it ended over dinner. This is the last "Wasp Tells a Tale" story.