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Issue: Tales to Astonish #14
Publication Date: December 1960
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Issues: #14 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: 07/1960
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newsstands in July 1960. 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 unless otherwise specified.

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.
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Original Artwork
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Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Adult Image
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Krang!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Krang
First Line: I can't escape!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #2 [Regular Edition] published March 2008
as Tales to Astonish #14 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Suspicions that Ditko added the three figures crawling on Krang.
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I Created Krang! The Most Fantastic Monster The World Has Ever Known!, Chapter One

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Krang; Professor Carter; Ludwig
Synopsis: A scientist's formula makes an ant giant and super-intelligent. The ant wants to conquer the world, but is killed by a giant ant-eater.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFear #4 published July 1971
as I Created Krang! The Most Fantastic Monster the World Has Ever Known! [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 2
In Content Item: FlagWeird Wonder Tales #18 published October 1976
as Krang! [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 1
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #2 [Regular Edition] published March 2008
as I Created Krang!, Chapter One [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: T-901
Disclose Notes: This story is divided into two chapters: an untitled chapter one (7 pp) and chapter two—"Krang!" (6 pp). This is one of the first two 'feature-length' monster stories published by Marvel (the other was "I Was the Slave of the Living Hulk!" published simultaneously in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #62). Three months later, these stories would be added to all four Marvel SF anthologies, and the next year a fifth series including them would be launched.
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Krang!: Chapter Two

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Krang; Professor Carter; Ludwig
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFear #4 published July 1971
as I Created Krang! The Most Fantastic Monster the World Has Ever Known! [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 2
In Content Item: FlagWeird Wonder Tales #18 published October 1976
as Krang! [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 2
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #2 [Regular Edition] published March 2008
as [I Created Krang!], Chapter Two: Krang! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: T-901
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 12-14, 16-18 of comic (pages of story numbered 8 to 13).
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The Remedy Oil

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Mrs. Gerrity; Tom Gerrity; Officer O'Malley; Logarithm
Synopsis: An old-fashioned shopkeeper unwittingly saves the life of a boy from Mechanica when her remedy oil lubricates the gears in his brain.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #2 [Regular Edition] published March 2008
as The Remedy Oil [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #54 published April 1957
was The Remedy Oil [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: J-984
Disclose Notes: Text story with two illustrations. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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Behold! I Am the Master of Time!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Synopsis: In a black magic book, a thief finds instructions for creating a time machine which runs on electricity, but after robbing people in the 18th century and attempting to return to the 20th, he realizes he is stuck in the past because there is no electricity in the 18th century.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTower of Shadows #8 published November 1970
as Behold! I Am the Master of Time! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #2 [Regular Edition] published March 2008
as Behold! I Am the Master of Time! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-889
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The Thing in Human Form!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Ogor; 'John Cummings' [Zeno]
Synopsis: A Martian is sent to Earth to kidnap a human scientist who has invented a weapon that Mars wants to use against Jupiter. The Martian is beaten by the scientist, who turns out to be a Jovian agent setting a trap to capture a live Martian.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagChamber of Darkness #8 [unnamed variant] published December 1970
as The Beast That Walks Like a Man! [Story on Interior Page(s)]as "The Beast That Walks Like a Man!"
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #2 [Regular Edition] published March 2008
as The Thing in Human Form! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: [T-???]

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