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Issue: Tales to Astonish #41
Publication Date: March 1963
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Issues: #41 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: 12/03/1962
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 5 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in December 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 Images1
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Original Artwork
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Prisoner of the Slave World!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
First Line: I've only seconds in which to act and no place to turn!!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #41 published January 1965
as Prisoner of the Slave World! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Ant-Man #1 published February 2002
as Prisoner of the Slave World! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]black and white
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man #1 [Regular Edition] published March 2006
as Tales to Astonish #41 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man #1 [unnamed variant] published January 2013
as Prisoner of the Slave World! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Prisoner of the Slave World!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Ben Carter (scientist); Paul (scientist); Ed Marion ('window washer', named in Marvel Legacy: The 1960s Handbook)
First Line: If you were Henry Pym, you could never predict when you might run into adventure!
Synopsis: Henry Pym is kidnapped along with other scientists in order to build a super-weapon for a tyrant in another dimension. He sneaks away and transforms into Ant-Man in order to defeat the tyrant.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagEssential Ant-Man #1 published February 2002
as Prisoner of the Slave World! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man #1 [Regular Edition] published March 2006
as Prisoner of the Slave World! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man #1 [unnamed variant] published January 2013
as Prisoner of the Slave World! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: In Marvel Legacy: The 1960s Handbook, this dimension is called Dehnock.
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Tricky Travel

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Character(s): Eli Twiddle; Mr. Hardy
First Line: It was unbelievable to hear Eli Twiddle tell his customers at the Travel bureau about the...
Synopsis: A travel agent has the ability to travel in his dreams, but eventually he grows out of it.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Unknown Worlds #48 published August 1956
was Tricky Travel [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: [K-19]
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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When the Beast Walks!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Bruno Storme; Shorty Harris
First Line: They started closing up the zoos in 1965 and now they're all shut down!
Synopsis: An animal-loving reporter saves a four-armed ape from a hunter and discovers that it is really an alien looking for a human worthy of hearing its message. As a gesture of goodwill to other species all zoos on Earth are shut down.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagHIP Classics #19130 published January 1969
as Toen het Monster kwam [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagI Fantastici Quattro #2 published April 1971
as Quando il mostro cammina [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagL'Incroyable Hulk #14 published September 1972
as Quand la bête marche ! [Story on Interior Page(s)]N&B [B&W]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #4 [Regular Edition] published January 2012
as When the Beast Walks! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Job Number: X-42
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person.
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The Curse!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Sebastian; Vulture
First Line: Hah! Look at the ignorant peasants run!
Synopsis: A dictator pretends that a treasure is cursed in order to get it for himself, but it turns out the treasure is cursed and a ghost takes him.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagL'Incroyable Hulk #42 published January 1975
as La malédiction ! [Story on Interior Page(s)]N&B [B&W]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #4 [Regular Edition] published January 2012
as The Curse! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5

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