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Issue: Tales to Astonish #23
Publication Date: September 1961
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Issues: #23 of 101 Issues (131 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: MCView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications, Inc.
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): Stan Lee
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in June 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.

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 In16
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images3
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
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Moomba Is Here!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Moomba
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreatures on the Loose #11 published May 1971
as Moomba is Here! [Illustration on Cover, Front]re-inked
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #3 [Regular Edition] published March 2010
as Tales to Astonish #23 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Unbelievable Menace of Moomba [Part 1]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Moomba; Frank; Katu
First Line: As our story begins... There I was...
Synopsis: An explorer discovers that native African wood carvings are actually an advance fifth column invasion force under the command of Moomba. Moomba gives his command to strike and all the carvings get up and begin to herd and intimidate their human owners as the wood they are crafted of is so dense that neither fire nor any other human weapons can defeat them. Using unknown means, a native African witch doctor defeats Moomba and extracts a promise from him to leave Earth along with all of his warriors.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreatures on the Loose #11 published May 1971
as The Unbelievable Menace of Moomba [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 1
In Content Item: FlagChamber of Chills #25 [unnamed variant] published November 1976
as Moomba [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 1
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #3 [Regular Edition] published March 2010
as The Unbelievable Menace of Moomba [, Part 1] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-285
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. It is an elaboration of the plot of "I Was the Prisoner of the Living Statues!" drawn by John Forte, in Tales to Astonish #6 (November 1959).
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[The Unbelievable Menace of Moomba], Part 2: The Menace That Was...Moomba

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Moomba; Frank; Katu
First Line: Moomba's fantastic energy waves spread over the jungle, stretched across the...
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreatures on the Loose #11 published May 1971
as The Unbelievable Menace of Moomba [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 2
In Content Item: FlagChamber of Chills #25 [unnamed variant] published November 1976
as Moomba [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 2
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #3 [Regular Edition] published March 2010
as [The Unbelievable Menace of Moomba], Part 2: The Menace That Was...Moomba [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: V-285
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The Green Man

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Barney
First Line: It was a hot sticky summer night when I stopped in to Barney's for a cool beer before I went home.
Synopsis: A former pilot can't get anyone to believe his story about the fatal radium poisoning he picked up from an alien, and so keeps spreading it.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #3 [Regular Edition] published March 2010
as The Green Man [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagSpellbound #2 published April 1952
was The Green Man! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: A-189
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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Less Than Human

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): John Harris; Alice Harris; Billy Harris; Roby the Robot
First Line: It seemed that they were everywhere...
Synopsis: A strident anti-robot activist is convinced of the worth of robots when his son is saved by his robotic playmate.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #22 published April 1973
as Less Than Human [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFantomet #15/1988 published January 1988
as Den hjerteløse [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #3 [Regular Edition] published March 2010
as Less Than Human [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-284
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. This story is an altered retelling of "The Robot Hater", drawn by Paul Reinman in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #3 (May 1959). Writing tentatively credited to Stan Lee on the basis of his plot credit in a later retelling of the story.
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The Voice from Nowhere

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: Only you can save me!!
Synopsis: The space pilot landing on an asteroid is perplexed by a voice from nowhere pleading for help, but he realizes that the asteroid itself is the source of the voice.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #14 published December 1971
as The Voice from Nowhere! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFantomet #7/1985 published January 1985
as Stemmen [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #3 [Regular Edition] published March 2010
as The Voice from Nowhere [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #81 published ?
as The Voice from Nowhere! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-283

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