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Issue: Tales to Astonish #18
Publication Date: April 1961
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Issues: #18 of 101 Issues (177 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/05/1961
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in January 1961. 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:  
Disclose Variants2
Disclose Reprinted In19
Disclose Reprinted From1
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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Gorgilla Strikes Again!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Gorgilla
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #129 published January 1974
as Gorgilla Strikes Again! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #163 published January 1978
as Gorgilla Strikes Again! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #2 [Regular Edition] published March 2008
as Tales to Astonish #18 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #3 published ?
as Gorgilla Strikes Again! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagMisterios del Gato Negro #149 published ?
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover is taken from splash page of story.
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Gorgilla Strikes Again!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Gorgilla; Scotty; Anne
First Line: In the October issue of Tales to Astonish we gave you the story of Gorgilla!
Synopsis: Gorgilla stows away on a ship to America to contact the human race, but is met with fear and violence in New York. He stumbles across some communist spies and stops an assassination, but is killed by the military out of fear.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Creatures Roam #5 published March 1971
as Gorgilla Strikes Again! [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 1 (page count uncertain)
In Content Item: FlagFantomet #26/1987 published January 1987
as Gorgilla [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 1
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #2 [Regular Edition] published March 2008
as Gorgilla Strikes Again! [, Part 1] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-122
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. Gorgilla last appeared in issue #12 (October 1960), and later appears in Marvel Universe (Marvel, 1998 series) and Defenders (Marvel, 2001 series) #1 (March 2001).
Story is presented in two parts.
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Part 2...Gorgilla Strikes Again!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Gorgilla; Scotty; Anne
First Line: Hungry, lonely, utterly confused, the giant Gorgilla desperately made another attempt to...
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Creatures Roam #5 published March 1971
as Gorgilla Strikes Again! [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 2 (page count uncertain)
In Content Item: FlagFantomet #26/1987 published January 1987
as Gorgilla [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 2
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #2 [Regular Edition] published March 2008
as Gorgilla Strikes Again!, Part 2 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: V-122
Disclose Notes: Story is presented in two parts.
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The Stranger

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
First Line: They say there are stranger things happening on this old Earth of ours than one is...
Synopsis: A painting of a Napoleonic victory parade is mysteriously linked to an eccentric inhabitant of modern Paris.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #2 [Regular Edition] published March 2008
as The Stranger [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagAstonishing #39 published June 1955
was The Stranger [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1.75
Job Number: G-76
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. The first page of this story is printed between the pages of the lead story, while the second page is printed between the two back-up stories. The last page is split with the statement of ownership.
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Monsteroso

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Monsteroso
First Line: A strange egg rests on the ground--shunned by both plant and animal life!
Synopsis: A creature hatches from an egg and imagines itself lord of all it surveys, but it is suddenly drowned, as it is only a microbe in a scientist's culture.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFantasy Masterpieces #9 published June 1967
as Monsteroso! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFantomet #2/1988 published January 1988
as Monsteroso! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #2 [Regular Edition] published March 2008
as Monsteroso [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-105
Disclose Notes: This story is an altered retelling of "Earth Will Be Destroyed!" drawn by Steve Ditko in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #9 (May 1960). Stan Lee is given a speculative writing credit based on his authorship of another retelling of the same story. Suspicions of Lee's scripting.
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Statement Required by the Act of August 24, 1912, as Amended by the Acts of March 3, 1933, July 2, 1946 and June 11, 1960 (74 Stat. 208)

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.25
Disclose Notes: Average circulation per issue October 1959–September 1960 (issues #8–16): 163,156. This shares the last page of "The Stranger".
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Robot on the Rampage!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: The time... a few years in the future!
Synopsis: A robot stationed at a lighthouse rebels against his human master and the man manages to lock the robot outside where the food supply is stashed, but thanks to the salty sea air, it rusts completely within a mere matter of hours rendering it harmless to carry out its threats.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Super-Heroes #31 published November 1971
as Robot On The Rampage! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #196 published January 1983
as Robot on the Rampage! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFantomet #23/1985 published January 1985
as Robot [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #2 [Regular Edition] published March 2008
as Robot on the Rampage! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-111

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