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Issue: Astonishing #57
Publication Date: January 1957
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Issues: #57 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: 09/19/1956
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 B620499.
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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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They Lurk in the Cave!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #144 published January 1974
as They Lurk in the Cave! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #178 published January 1978
as They Lurk in the Cave! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Burgos alterations per Nick Caputo. Unaltered cover was published in Secrets of the Unknown.


Coloring credit confirmed by Goldberg.
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Inside the Furnace!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: A man goes back in time and robs himself.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #144 published January 1974
as Inside the Furnace! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrypt of Shadows #17 published May 1975
as Inside the Furnace! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K678
Disclose Notes: Wessler script from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
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The Black Boxes!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: In the year 1958, when ICBMs become a reality, mysterious black boxes appear in the sky which render them ineffectual.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #144 published January 1974
as The Black Boxes! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K877
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The Unknown Ones!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A lovesick space explorer finds another love in a Martian princess who gives up her claim to the throne to be with him.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #144 published January 1974
as The Unknown Ones! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAl Williamson: Hidden Lands #[nn] published October 2004
as The Unknown Ones [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K-824
Disclose Notes: Wessler script from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
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They Lurk in the Cave!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A man thinks himself a failure until he helps a galactic policeman foil a criminal plot.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #144 published January 1974
as They Lurk in the Cave! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrypt of Shadows #17 published May 1975
as They Lurk in the Cave! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K774
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Loony House

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Doyle Fairless; Sandy Clark
Synopsis: A man is thought mad for designing underground homes, until everyone moves underground and surface-dwellers are thought mad.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMystery Tales #34 published October 1955
was Underground [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "Loony House"
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: G-894
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustrations.
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He Can't Lose!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: In the year 2145 the Communists and western nations compete in Olympic games in order to determine economic spoils as nuclear war would be too devastating. The Communists cheat and use a robot, but are discovered and disqualified.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #144 published January 1974
as He Can't Lose! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: K921
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The Strange Power of Mr. Dunn!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: A man develops a cell growth formula to help out his carnival-owner friend as an attraction.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTomb of Darkness #14 [unnamed variant] published May 1975
as The Strange Power of Mr. Dunn! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #23 published ?
as The Strange Power of Mr. Dunn! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K751

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