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Issue: Astonishing #56
Publication Date: December 1956
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Issues: #56 of 61 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Atlas [black & white]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: 20th Century Comic Corp.
On Sale Date: 08/20/1956
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On sale date as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, July-December 1956, page 192, registration number B611743.
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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
Format Notes:  
Disclose Reprinted In9
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images2
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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They Walk thru Walls!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Color credit per Stan Goldberg.
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They Walk through Walls!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A man with plans to overthrow the government is confronted by men who can walk through walls, who explain that they are a secret society committed to battling people like him. He escapes, but inadvertently puts himself back in the power of the men in pursuit.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #145 published January 1974
as They Walk Thru Walls! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagBeware #8 published May 1974
as They Walk Thru Walls! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K-536
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Afraid to Dream!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #145 published January 1974
as Afraid To Dream [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAmerica's Greatest Comics #6 published January 2003
as Afraid to Dream [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K-652
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The Last Hour

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Unknown Worlds #36 published August 1955
was The Appointment [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]title changed
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: G-448
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Something Waits for Me!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #145 published January 1974
as Something Waits For Me [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K-524
Disclose Notes: Credit information from www.atlastales.com.
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No Answer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A man thinks he is a failure because the machine he created to contact other worlds gets no response and his boss fires him. Unknown to him, his signal was detected by a far off planet, and because of him, they redirect their atomic weapons at another target for testing.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagBeware #2 published May 1973
as No Answer [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagL'Incroyable Hulk #40 published November 1974
as Aucune réponse [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: K-662
Disclose Notes: Job Number information from www.atlastales.com.
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The Face In the Glass!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #145 published January 1974
as The Face In The Glass [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K-442
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Voodoo!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #172 published February 1974
as Voodoo [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Credit information from www.atlastales.com. Wessler credit from his record books, per Robin Snyder's the Comics, Vol 25, No. 6, June 2014.

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