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Issue: Tales to Astonish #34
Publication Date: August 1962
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Issues: #34 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: 05/08/1962
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 May 1962. 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 In13
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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Monster at My Window!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Paul Marshall
First Line: Heaven help me--it's true!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMisterios del Gato Negro #162 published August 1963
as Hay un Monstruo en mi Ventana [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #29 published August 1974
as Monster at My Window! [Illustration on Cover, Front]altered
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #4 [Regular Edition] published January 2012
as Monster at My Window! [Illustration on Dustjacket]cover
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #4 [Regular Edition] published January 2012
as Monster at My Window! [Tales to Astonish #34 cover] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: This cover art is taken from the splash page of the lead story, with minor alterations.
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A Monster at My Window!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Paul Marshall
First Line: Paul Marshall is a famous writer of science-fiction tales!
Synopsis: An alien from another dimension threatens a science fiction writer, but the writer is a hostile alien from a different dimension.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #29 published August 1974
as A Monster at My Window! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #4 [Regular Edition] published January 2012
as A Monster at My Window! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: V-777
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Masquerade

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): Tommy; Kitty Blake; Old King Cole
First Line: Tommy used to be the fellow from Missouri...
Synopsis: A man with no imagination is invited to a costume party by his girlfriend, but stumbles across real fairy-tale folk instead.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #4 [Regular Edition] published January 2012
as Masquerade [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Unknown Worlds #38 published October 1955
was Masquerade [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: [G-750]
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The Strange Fate of the Statue Maker!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Luther Benedict
First Line: Take a lonely hill... put a mysterious laboratory atop it... and you've...
Synopsis: An inventor accidentally invents a petrification device and decides to use it to turn attractive people into detailed statues. His first victim is so beautiful that he decides to release her, but accidentally petrifies himself.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #30 published October 1974
as The Strange Fate of the Statue Maker! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #4 [Regular Edition] published January 2012
as The Strange Fate of the Statue Maker! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-778
Disclose Notes: Job number revealed on original art. Info per Nick Caputo: https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/complete-story/jack-kirby-and-paul-reinman-tales-to-astonish-34-complete-6-page-story-the-strange-fate-of-the-statue-maker-original-art/a/818-4251.s
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The Invaders

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: Never in all of recorded history did an invasion end up the way this one did!
Synopsis: Aliens from a dry desert world park their invasion fleet on a large expanse of the ocean thinking it to be a solid surface whereupon the ships sink like stones.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Wonder Tales #5 [unnamed variant] published August 1974
as The Invaders [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #4 [Regular Edition] published January 2012
as The Invaders [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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Dance, You Fool

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Carlos Carter
First Line: I am a rooming house... old, shabby and weatherworn!
Synopsis: An unsuccessful dancer overhears the old man in the room next to him saying that his old pair of dancing shoes can make anyone a great dancer. He steals the shoes from the old man, but finds that he can never stop dancing.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCrypt of Shadows #12 published September 1974
as Dance, You Fool [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #4 [Regular Edition] published January 2012
as Dance, You Fool [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Narrated by the rooming house where the protagonist lives.

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