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Issue: Tales to Astonish #29
Publication Date: March 1962
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Issues: #29 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: 12/05/1961
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in December 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 In9
Disclose Reprinted From1
reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images1
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Original Artwork
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When the Space Beasts Attack!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #3 [Regular Edition] published March 2010
as Tales to Astonish #29 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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When the Space Beasts Attack!!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Jeb
First Line: Laughter can express many different things!
Synopsis: An alien armada lands on Earth with weapons that seem to disintegrate anything. Humanity is helpless before the aliens, until they demand a man vacate his farm in order to make way for a spaceport. The farmer gets so angry he lays the alien out with the butt of his rifle. The aliens disintegrate things like trucks and houses, but they don't fire at people. Once the farmer realizes this and spreads the word, the aliens retreat from the human's firearms.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #12 [unnamed variant] published August 1971
as When the Space Beasts Attack!! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #3 [Regular Edition] published March 2010
as When the Space Beasts Attack!! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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The Clock

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Character(s): Franz Ammergau; Gerda; Dr. Schmitt
First Line: The snow fell quietly in the little Alpine village, and...
Synopsis: An old clockmaker nearly dies from the cold, but is saved by the wooden figures adorning his clocks, which he has given parts of his own soul.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #3 [Regular Edition] published March 2010
as The Clock [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales #148 published July 1956
was The Clock [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-9
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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The Man Who Blew Up the Earth!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Elias Cragston
First Line: There it is--spinning in its orbit as it has done for 2 billion years!
Synopsis: A jilted Quasimodo-like scientist devotes all his energy into producing a cobalt bomb which is so powerful that it can shatter the Earth. He wants to destroy all of mankind for jeering at his ugliness. He sneaks on board a rocket that is going into orbit and releases the bomb, but forgot about the lack of gravitational pull, and so the bomb just remains in place until it detonates against the side of the rocket. On Earth, the woman who laughed at him when he proposed marriage, gazes skyward at the explosion and exclaims "Isn't it the most beautiful sight you've ever seen?"
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #3 [Regular Edition] published March 2010
as The Man Who Blew Up The Earth! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-498
Disclose Notes: Apparently whoever wrote this story thought that the ending was uplifting. The last page includes an advertisement for Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series), also drawn by Kirby.

Dick Ayers Inks credit from Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 Series) #3.
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What Happened to Harry?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Harry Brown; Albert Poole
First Line: Ever see a timid soul?
Synopsis: A brilliant inventor's boss tries to steal his new time machine in order to take credit for it. He uses the time machine to travel to a different time, but ends up in the prehistoric period, where the electricity to power the time machine cannot be found.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #20 [unnamed variant] published March 1973
as What Happened to Harry? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #3 [Regular Edition] published March 2010
as What Happened to Harry? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Though many details are changed, this story is a retelling of "Behold! I Am the Master of Time!" drawn by Steve Ditko in issue #14 (December 1960).

Pencil credit from Tony Thomas on 13 August 2004. Original indexer credited Jack Kirby.
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The Last Laugh!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Happy Harper
First Line: There are few things more cruel, more vicious, than a heartless practical joke!
Synopsis: A vicious practical joker gets his comeuppance in the afterlife.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFear #6 published February 1972
as The Last Laugh! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #3 [Regular Edition] published March 2010
as The Last Laugh! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-500
Disclose Notes: The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series) also by Lee and Ditko.

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