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Issue: Tales to Astonish #24
Publication Date: October 1961
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Issues: #24 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: 07/11/1961
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 July 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 In10
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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
Indicia on this Page
 
 
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The Abominable Snowman

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
Character(s): Abominable Snowman [Victor Cartwright]; Fred Cooper
First Line: It's the Abominable Snowman!!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Creatures Roam #5 published March 1971
as Gorgilla! [Illustration on Cover, Front]as a cover to the story "Gorgilla Strikes Again!" from issue #18 (April 1961); original title: The Abominable Snowman!
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #3 [Regular Edition] published March 2010
as Tales to Astonish #24 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The cover art is also the splash page of the lead story.
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I Found the Abominable Snowman! [Part 1]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
Character(s): Victor Cartwright; Fred Cooper; Don Jordan
First Line: Is there really an Abominable Snowman?
Synopsis: A TV producer fakes a film of the Abominable Snowman in the arctic, but runs afoul of an ancient underground civilization of lizard-men and a giant octopus.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #3 [Regular Edition] published March 2010
as I Found the Abominable Snowman! [, Part 1] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-329
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person.
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[I Found the Abominable Snowman!], Part 2: The Snowman's Secret!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Victor Cartwright; Fred Cooper; Don Jordan
First Line: Once again I return from the surface world without having found our brother!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #3 [Regular Edition] published March 2010
as [I Found the Abominable Snowman!], Part 2: The Snowman's Secret! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: V-329
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The Recipe

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Character(s): Josie
First Line: Josie was a tomboy.
Synopsis: A tomboyish girl tries out cooking to appease her mother, but accidentally cooks a witch's brew, totally inappropriate for a fairy like her.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #3 [Regular Edition] published March 2010
as The Recipe [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales #150 published September 1956
was The Recipe [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-338
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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Something Missing!!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Sally; Tom
First Line: We brought every imaginable gift to the strange, deadly world...
Synopsis: The first mission to Mercury has a stow-away, the lover of one of the pilots. The captain is angry, but when they arrive on Mercury they find that the natives are hostile, and only the girl's display of love towards the pilot convinces them that the humans have something of value to offer.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Creatures Roam #5 published March 1971
as Something Missing!! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCapitaine America #20 published April 1973
as Il manquait toujours quelque chose [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #3 [Regular Edition] published March 2010
as Something Missing!! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-330
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He Waits in the Dark!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
First Line: Somewhere in Europe stands a shabby tenement, in a shabby neighborhood in a shabby city!
Synopsis: A mysterious janitor comes to work for a slumlord, but he has strange powers and ends the man's evil ways.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Creatures Roam #5 published March 1971
as He Waits in the Dark! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #3 [Regular Edition] published March 2010
as He Waits In The Dark! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-328

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