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Issue: Astonishing #63
Publication Date: August 1957
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Issues: #63 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: 04/18/1957
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, January-June 1957, page 16, registration number B656210.

Indicia: ASTONISHING is published monthly by 20th Century Comic Corp. OFFICE OF PUBLICATION: 655 MADISON AVE., NEW YORK, N.Y. SECOND-CLASS MAIL PRIVILEGES AUTHORIZED AT NEW YORK, N.Y. Additional entry at Canton, Ohio. Copyright 1957 by 20th Century Comic Corp., 655 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. Vo1. 1, No. 63, August 1957 issue. Arthur Marchand, Circulation Director. Price 10ยข per copy. Subscription rate $1.45 for 12 issues including postage. No similarity between any of the names, characters, person, and/or institutions appearing in this magazine with those of any living or dead person or institution is intended, and any such similarity which may exist is purely coincidental. Monroe Froelich, Jr., Business Manager. Printed in the U.S.A.
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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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Piece of Rope!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #10 published January 1962
as Piece of Rope! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #142 published January 1973
as Piece of Rope! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Coloring credit confirmed by Goldberg.
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A Tender Tale of Love

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A man looking to marry money rents a room in a house where all the occupants are ghosts. When he falls for one of the tenants and she tells him he has a rival, he tries to murder the rival, but fails because he's already dead.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-89
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The Secret Beyond Belief!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A scientist invents a rejuvenation process and a fellow scientist wants him to share it with the world, but the man refuses because the creative people who have gone through the process are no longer productive as they have all the time in the world to perfect their craft but never finish anything.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTomb of Darkness #17 [unnamed variant] published November 1975
as The Secret beyond Belief! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-135
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The Terrible Toy!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: People fear aliens who have appeared in the skies, but when a father seeks a lost toy for a beloved son, the humans realize that their shared bonds of compassion unite them and the aliens.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-124
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The Room That Wasn't There

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A man sees a reflection of himself in a mirror thirty years hence occupying a dingy room and resolves to change his destiny through acquiring money by crime. He is arrested and sentenced to life in jail where he realizes the mirror had displayed to him his jail cell.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: M-91
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Zeke, the Wonder

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagSpellbound #29 published August 1956
was The Performer [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "Zeke, the Wonder"
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: J-929
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A Piece of Rope!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A mountain climber is bothered by guilt when he cuts a rope securing him to his partner who fell, so he goes back to retrieve the body, only to find that his partner survived the fall. At this time, the rope that he been unable to remove from himself, drops off.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-26
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The Girl with the Evil Eyes!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A man finds a voodoo amulet that is said to allow one to see into the future. He has a dream that his brother will introduce him to a woman he plans to marry, but the girl is evil and tries to seduce the other brother into killing his brother so that she can marry him and inherit the money. After he wakes up, the dream events play out in real life up to the point the man introduces the girl to his brother, but the story ends asking the reader what the brother should do.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagChamber of Chills #21 published March 1976
as The Girl with the Evil Eyes! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-165

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