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Issue: Tales to Astonish #21
Publication Date: July 1961
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Issues: #21 of 101 Issues (177 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: MCView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
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 April 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 In16
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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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It's Trull...the Inhuman!!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
Character(s): Trull; Phil; Bart Hanson; Gloria
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #12 published January 1964
as It's Trull...the Inhuman!! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #131 published January 1974
as It's Trull...the Inhuman!! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #166 published January 1978
as It's Trull...the Inhuman!! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #3 [Regular Edition] published March 2010
as Tales to Astonish #21 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMisterios del Gato Negro #152 published ?
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Trull! The Inhuman!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
Character(s): Trull; Phil; Bart Hanson; Gloria
First Line: The universe: An endless stage containing countless dramas!
Synopsis: The mental essence of an alien bent on global conquest takes over a steam shovel and is defeated by an elephant.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreatures on the Loose #10 published March 1971
as Trull! The Unhuman! [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 1
In Content Item: FlagL'Incroyable Hulk #17 published December 1972
as Thrull ! L'Inhumain ! [Story on Interior Page(s)]N&B [B&W]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #3 [Regular Edition] published March 2010
as Trull! The Inhuman! [, Part 1] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: V-192
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. The story differs from others like it because the hero does not try to win the affection of the previously shrewish female, but instead gives her the cold shoulder at the end.
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[Trull! The Inhuman!], Part 2

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Trull; Phil; Bart Hanson; Gloria
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreatures on the Loose #10 published March 1971
as Trull! The Unhuman! [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 2
In Content Item: FlagL'Incroyable Hulk #18 published January 1973
as Thrull ! L'Inhumain ! [Story on Interior Page(s)]N&B [B&W]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #3 [Regular Edition] published March 2010
as [Trull! The Inhuman!], Part 2 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-192
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Time Machine

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: I think the first time I really began to think seriously about...
Synopsis: A man's fascination with history leads him to build a time machine and travel to the past, but when he sees the dangers of time travel he destroys the machine and blueprints.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #3 [Regular Edition] published March 2010
as Time Machine [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagMystic #57 published March 1957
was Time Machine [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: G-85
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Narrated in the first person.
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The Silent Screen

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Hulk
First Line: The house lights dim!
Synopsis: An infinite loop story about a monster who repeatedly steps out of a movie screen.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #8 [unnamed variant] published March 1971
as It Happened On "The Silent Screen" [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #3 [Regular Edition] published March 2010
as The Silent Screen [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-193
Disclose Notes: Story credited to Stan Lee in issue #26 (December 1961). Stan must have wondered about the appeal of this type of story because he specifically asks for reader comment at the end of it.
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Open Wider, Please

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: His face is without expression, without vitality!
Synopsis: A dentist in 2030 discovers that his patient is a robot from Mars and calls the police. The Martian robot is stopped, and the dentist is relieved, since he wants nothing to stop the infiltration of Venusian robots like him.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #183 published January 1980
as Open Wider, Please [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #3 [Regular Edition] published March 2010
as Open Wider, Please [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-194
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person.

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