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Issue: Tales to Astonish #44
Publication Date: June 1963
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Issues: #44 of 101 Issues (131 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/05/1963
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 4 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is the publication date reported in U. S. Copyright Office filings.

Distributed to newstands in March 1963. 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:  
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images2
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Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Adult Image
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The Creature From Kosmos!!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Ant-Man [Henry Pym]; Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]; Creature from Kosmos [Pilai]
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Saga ™ The Official History of the Marvel Universe #9 [Direct Edition] published August 1986
as Marvel Saga Classic Cover Gallery [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Ant-Man #1 published February 2002
as The Creature from Kosmos!! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]black and white
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man #1 [Regular Edition] published March 2006
as Tales to Astonish #44 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSecret Invasion: Requiem #1 published January 2009
as Tales to Astonish #44 cover [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]recolored
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man #1 published December 2013
as The Creature From Kosmos!! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Creature from Kosmos!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Ant-Man [Henry Pym] (origin detail); Wasp [Janet Van Dyne] (introduction, origin); Creature from Kosmos [Pilai] (introduction, named in a later comic); Maria Trovaya-Pym (flashback, introduction); Vernon Van Dyne (introduction); Lee Kearns (voice only)
First Line: Throughout history there have been men who have become legends, men who have...
Synopsis: When a fellow scientist is killed by an alien being, Ant-Man enlists the help of the dead man's daughter. He gives her the ability to shrink and tiny wasp wings, and she joins him as his partner the Wasp. The duo use the alien's acidic nature to destroy it, saving the city.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Feature #8 published March 1973
as Prelude To Disaster! [Story on Interior Page(s)]Panels 6-8 of page 2, pages 3-18
In Content Item: FlagThe Superhero Women #[nn] published January 1977
as The Creature from Kosmos! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Saga ™ The Official History of the Marvel Universe #1 [Direct Edition] published December 1985
as Book I: The Saga Begins...! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Saga ™ The Official History of the Marvel Universe #9 [Direct Edition] published August 1986
as Book IX: Look to the Skies...! [Story on Interior Page(s)]excerpts
In Content Item: FlagEssential Ant-Man #1 published February 2002
as The Creature from Kosmos! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man #1 [Regular Edition] published March 2006
as The Creature From Kosmos! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSecret Invasion: Requiem #1 published January 2009
as The Creature from Kosmos! [Story on Interior Page(s)]recolored
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man #1 published December 2013
as The Creature from Kosmos! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 18
Job Number: X-192
Disclose Notes: In addition to introducing the Wasp, this story fleshes out Henry Pym's background and introduces the death of his wife as a motivating factor.
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Blueprint for Victory

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): LtC. Cam Westover; Maj. Franks; Cpt. Bill Trayne; Gen. von Kretz
First Line: The Rhine and its ruined bridges lay thirty miles behind and the roads were...
Synopsis: A cunning spy infiltrates German HQ with a phoney blueprint as bait and paralyzes communications before a major US assault.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMarines in Battle #6 published June 1955
was Blueprint For Victory [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: G-60
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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Hunted

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: The odds were impossible?
Synopsis: In the year 2000 all of New York City is searching for a 'plague carrier' who is attempting to escape notice and flee the city. He is apprehended at a transportation center and the police remove the 'plague' from him which turns out to be a handgun he had stolen from a museum which officials had worried could back bring the plague of war.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagPow! and Wham! #68 published May 1968
as Hunted [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #4 [Regular Edition] published January 2012
as Hunted [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #4 [Regular Edition] published January 2012
as Hunted [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #88 published ?
as Hunted [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5

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