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Issue: Astonishing #34
Publication Date: August 1954
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Issues: #34 of 61 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Atlas [black & white]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: 20th Century Comic Corp.
On Sale Date: 04/19/1954
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 8, Part 2, No. 1, Periodicals, January-June, 1954, page 15, registration number B475269.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Transformation!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.
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Knockout

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Synopsis: A crooked boxing promoter meets his end when the ghost of a fighter he set up ties him up in rope and stuffs him into the gym's punching bag.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: E-365
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The House That Hate Built

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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From Content Item: FlagJourney into Unknown Worlds #8 published December 1951
was Hate Is a Lonely Hunter [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 2
Job Number: 9280
Disclose Notes: original title: "Hate Is a Lonely Hunter." Job number supplied by www.atlastales.com.
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The Tomb!

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Synopsis: A woman excavating a tomb attempts to eliminate her rival by using dynamite but the explosion blinds her. When she feels around and thinks the body she touches is the man she wanted and accidentally killed, she uses another stick to kill herself as well. The man is actually still alive and comments that it is odd she embraces a mummy in her death throes.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: E-290
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The Slave-Driver

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Synopsis: A sea captain that is set adrift after his crew mutinies comes ashore on an island where a plantation owner makes a slave out of him.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: E-283
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Transformation!

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Synopsis: A gangster doesn't get the results he wants when he threatens a plastic surgeon to repair his acid-scarred face and the doctor remakes his face to resemble a woman's.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: E-330
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Bill Molno pencil/ink credit removed based on information from atlastales.com.

Story is signed, not in splash, but in lower left panel of the first page.
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Heads Will Roll

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Synopsis: An executioner who wishes for more business takes up the practice of murdering people himself because he knows the courts will convict someone of the killing.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: E-351
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Bob Powell? pencil/ink credit removed based on information from atlastales.com.

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