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Issue: Astonishing #54
Publication Date: October 1956
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Issues: #54 of 61 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Atlas [black & white]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: 20th Century Comic Corp.
On Sale Date: 06/19/1956
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On sale date as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, July-December 1956, page 192, registration number B603462.

Contains 10 pages of adverts.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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When the Walls Close In!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMisterios del Gato Negro #87 published April 1959
as Cuando los muros se acercan [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Old Man's Secret!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: A man crosses the mountains of Tibet in order to gain the secret of immortality. He meets a young man and an old man and convinces the young man to let him take the old man back to civilization with him in order to analyze his body chemistry. When he gets back, his friend, whom has met the couple before, tells him that he brought back the wrong man. He brought back the immortal man's son.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #16 [unnamed variant] published April 1975
as The Old Man's Secret! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K263
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Nightmare at Noon!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: When a woman threatens to leave a man unless he sells his island for cash, he has a vision of a woman being threatened by pirates. He defeats the pirates, and as a reward she gives him a ring and a promise to return someday as the vision fades. When he comes to he finds he still has the ring and the client the real estate broker brings in to show the island is the spitting image of the woman from his vision.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWorlds Unknown #1 published May 1973
as Nightmare at Noon [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K223
Disclose Notes: Previously indexer changed credit to Frazetta based on art style. However Torres, who was an admirer of Frazetta, stated to David Spurlock "No, Frank never helped me with any of my Atlas stories or any other stories. I never worked with Frank on anything of his or he on anything of mine."
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Man with Wings!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: Leonardo Da Vinci has nightmares about being able to fly.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K-208
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No Trespassing!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: When a rich man finds a beam of light shining on his property with healing properties, he fences it off and charges five thousand dollars for access. The beam turns out to be an alien weapon test and, when increased to full power, wipes out the man's estate reducing him to poverty.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K211
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Discovery

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Character(s): Chauncey; Zeke; Muscles Magee
Synopsis: A scrawny man is given a magic candy bar that confers great strength, but he discovers that he already posesses more strength than he suspects.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #67 published February 1959
as Discovery [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #86 [U.S. Cover Price] published July 1961
as Discovery [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #83 [U.S. Cover Price] published August 1962
as Discovery [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #105 [U.S. Cover Price] published February 1963
as Discovery [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales of Suspense #42 [U.S. Cover Price] published June 1963
as Discovery [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #236 published January 1986
as Discovery [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #23 published ?
as Discovery [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-479
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The World of Flame!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A giant wave tosses a ship up to the sun.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagL'Uomo Ragno [Collana Super-Eroi] #187 published June 1977
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Adventures #26 [U.S. Cover Price] published September 1974
as The World of Flame! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: K231
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When the Walls Close In!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: An escaped war criminal feels claustrophobia until his guilt makes him confess.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #9 published April 1975
as When the Walls Close In! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K222

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