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Issue: Tales to Astonish #49
Publication Date: November 1963
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Issues: #49 of 101 Issues (131 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/01/1963
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.

This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.
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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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Disclose Reprinted In12
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
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Giant Man

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Giant-Man [Henry Pym]; Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]; Living Eraser
First Line: Giant-Man is actually being--erased!!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTerrific! #23 published September 1967
as The Origin of Giant-Man [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Ant-Man #1 published February 2002
as The Living Eraser! [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 #49 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man #1 published December 2013
as Beginning in This Special Super-Issue: Ant-Man Becomes "Giant Man" [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: New corner symbol of Giant-Man and the Wasp by Don Heck.
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The Birth of Giant-Man!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Giant-Man [Henry Pym] (first appearance as Giant-Man); Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]; Living Eraser (introduction)
First Line: An ear-splitting explosion rocks a quiet house on the...
Synopsis: While Henry Pym develops capsules that permit him to become giant-size as well as ant-size, the Eraser captures him and brings him to Dimension Z along with other scientists to build atomic weapons. Giant-Man defeats their captors and rescues the scientists.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagAvengers: The Many Faces of Henry Pym #[nn] published January 2012
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales Annual #1 published September 1964
as The Birth of Giant-Man [Story on Interior Page(s)]pages 1—3 of original, reformatted into two pages
In Content Item: FlagTerrific! #1 published April 1967
as Giant Man [Story on Interior Page(s)]excerpt only
In Content Item: FlagEssential Ant-Man #1 published February 2002
as The Birth of Giant-Man! [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 Birth of Giant-Man! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man #1 published December 2013
as The Birth of Giant-Man! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 18
Disclose Notes: This story places Hank Pym's lab and base in the New Jersey Palisades. Living Eraser next appears in Marvel Two-in-One (Marvel, 1974 series) #15.
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Odd Skills

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Jim Branner; Bill Toney
First Line: When a man who has been very competent suddenly becomes slipshod, there's usually a reason.
Synopsis: The manager of an auto parts shop develops a sudden tolerance for "human variation" in parts, possibly linked to otherworldly strangers in the shop at night.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #34 published May 1956
was Odd Skills [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: [J-216]
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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The End of a World!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Zarku
First Line: In a far-distant galaxy, whose very existence is unknown to us, there sits...
Synopsis: A ruler orders the destruction of an uninhabited galaxy as a tribute to his power. The explosion in the microscopic universe is witnessed through a microscope by a boy as an unimportant anomaly.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagI Fantastici Quattro #68 published November 1973
as La fine di un mondo! [Story on Interior Page(s)]as "La fine di un mondo!", Italian translation
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #4 [Regular Edition] published January 2012
as The End of a World! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5

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