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Issue: Tales to Astonish #12
Publication Date: October 1960
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Issues: #12 of 101 Issues (177 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Zenith Publishing Corp.
On Sale Date: 05/31/1960
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):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in May 1960. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. All new stories in this issue are narrated in the first person unless otherwise specified.
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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 In17
Disclose Reprinted From1
reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images1
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Original Artwork
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Gorgilla!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Gorgilla
First Line: Look!! It isn't just a hole in the dirt!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #9 [unnamed variant] published February 1971
as Gorgilla! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #2 [Regular Edition] published March 2008
as Tales to Astonish #12 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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I Discovered Gorgilla! The Monster of Midnight Mountain!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Gorgilla (introduction); Scotty; Anne; Frank
Synopsis: An expedition finds the missing link between apes and humans in Borneo. It is initially hostile, but defends its fellow primates from a dinosaur.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #9 [unnamed variant] published February 1971
as I Discovered Gorgilla! The Monster of Midnight Mountain! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Wonder Tales #21 published March 1977
as I Discovered Gorgilla! [Story on Interior Page(s)]with alterations; as a Doctor Druid story
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #2 [Regular Edition] published March 2008
as I Discovered Gorgilla! The Monster of Midnight Mountain! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: T-873
Disclose Notes: Gorgilla next appears in issue #18 (April 1961).
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The Sorcerer

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Character(s): Tom Morton; Jack Morton; Ellen Morton; Johnny Morton
Synopsis: A man who has travelled the world and seen wonders performed by hermits in India returns home to find that his young nephew creates magic with only belief.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #2 [Regular Edition] published March 2008
as The Sorcerer [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales of the Unusual #1 published December 1955
was The Sorcerer [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: H-203
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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My Nightmare Has No End!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Synopsis: A man meets an extradimensional being in his nightmares. The being tells him that the world he comes from is a paradise, but boring, and offers to switch places. The man agrees, but the traveller wakes up to find that he entered the dreams of a prisoner.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFantasy Masterpieces #4 published August 1966
as I Am the Beast Man! [Story on Interior Page(s)]retitled
In Content Item: FlagFear #4 published July 1971
as My Nightmare Has No End! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTomb of Darkness #19 [unnamed variant] published March 1976
as My Nightmare Has No End! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #2 [Regular Edition] published March 2008
as My Nightmare Has No End! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: [T-874]
Disclose Notes: This story was reprinted as "I Am the Beast Man!" in Fantasy Masterpieces #4. This story was also retold in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #94 (March 1962) as "He Came from Nowhere!" by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber and George Tuska, but with the alien having the last laugh.
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Save Me! Save Me!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Albert Poole
Synopsis: A scientist makes himself able to walk on water in order to steal secret military plans from a ship. But when he returns to the shore he finds that he now sinks on land.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFear #3 published March 1971
as Save Me! Save Me! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #2 [Regular Edition] published March 2008
as Save Me! Save Me! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-875
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A Monster Waits Outside!!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Maj. Ford
Synopsis: An astronaut is sent into orbit in a tiny sphere without communication. He sees a monster trying to claw its way in and panics, signalling ground control to bring him back. They think that it was a hallucination, but they find a broken claw on the spacecraft.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFear #3 published March 1971
as A Monster Waits Outside!! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagL'Incroyable Hulk #61 published January 1976
as Un monstre attend dehors ! [Story on Interior Page(s)]N&B [B&W]
In Content Item: FlagChamber of Chills #24 published September 1976
as A Monster Waits Outside!! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFantomet #25/1985 published January 1985
as Et monster venter utenfor! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #2 [Regular Edition] published March 2008
as A Monster Waits Outside!! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-876
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the second person. This story was retold with some differences in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #24 (December 1961) as "The Insect Man" drawn by Jack Kirby.

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