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Issue: Tales to Astonish #43
Publication Date: May 1963
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Issues: #43 of 101 Issues (177 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/05/1963
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 February 1963. 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 Variants3
Disclose Reprinted In11
Disclose Reprinted From1
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The Mad Master of Time!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
First Line: What's happening to me?
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagEssential Ant-Man #1 published February 2002
as The Mad Master of Time! [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 #43 [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 Is This the End of Ant-Man? "The Mad Master of Time!" [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Mad Master of Time!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Tommy Weems
First Line: Thousands of footsteps tread daily upon the sidewalks of Center City...
Synopsis: A scientist forced to retire makes a device to artificially age others and holds the city hostage. Ant-Man can't stop him, but when he accidentally ages his own grandson he repents and reverses the damage.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagEssential Ant-Man #1 published February 2002
as The Mad Master of Time! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man #1 [Regular Edition] published March 2006
as The Mad Master of Time! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man #1 [unnamed variant] published January 2013
as The Mad Master of Time! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: X-125
Disclose Notes: The Time Master never appears again, Ant-Man still operates in "Center City".
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Lady Luck

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): Lester Ford; Marie Ford; Lady Luck
First Line: Lester counted up all his cards and gave the number to the scorekeeper.
Synopsis: A businessman doesn’t believe in luck, but several beneficial encounters with an old lady change his mind.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales #136 published July 1955
was Lady Luck [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: [G-377]
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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Frankie's Fast Ball!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Frankie Jones; Mr. Jones; Mrs. Jones
First Line: Frankie Jones could throw the fastest ball in the world!
Synopsis: A boy gains extraordinary physical and mental abilities due to his parents' exposure to radiation. He wants to play baseball, but his fastball punches a hole in a tree and would damage a catcher.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagConan le Barbare #10 published October 1981
as Sa meilleure balle ! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #4 [Regular Edition] published January 2012
as Frankie's Fast Ball! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: This is a retelling of "The Rookie" from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #131 (February 1955). The idea of radiation granting super-powers to unborn children was a major part of early X-Men stories.
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My Fatal Mistake!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Yates; Cosmo
First Line: I am the only human on Earth ever to defeat the mighty Cosmo...
Synopsis: A man is bitter because he has been replaced by a computer and must take a job servicing it. It is ensconced in an air-tight clean room with a door that is opened after fifteen minutes allotted for servicing purposes. When the man enters the room, he gets the idea to sabotage the machine so that it will make mistakes and he can get his old job back, but he damages the circuits that allow the machine to open the door after the fifteen minutes of oxygen are used up.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCapitaine America #13 published September 1972
as Mon erreur fatale [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagL'Incroyable Hulk #42 published January 1975
as Mon erreur fatale [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 My Fatal Mistake! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-818
Disclose Notes: Per Cory Sedlmeier on the Marvel Masterworks Message Board, "TTA #43's 'My Fatal Mistake!' doesn't have a job number listed, but a little research makes me feel comfortable saying that it was probably V-818."

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