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Issue: Tales to Astonish #45
Publication Date: July 1963
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Issues: #45 of 101 Issues (177 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/02/1963
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 April 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 Variants2
Disclose Reprinted In13
Disclose Reprinted From1
reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images1
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The Return of Egghead!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
First Line: No, no, Ant-Man!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagEssential Ant-Man #1 published February 2002
as The Return of Egghead! [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 #45 [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 The Return of Egghead! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #35 published ?
as The Return of Egghead! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index.
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The Terrible Traps of Egghead!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Ape; Twister
First Line: This time you lose, Ant-Man!
Synopsis: Egghead forms a new gang and sets a trap for the Wasp, hoping to use her against Ant-Man. He captures the Wasp, but Ant-Man frees her and the two recover Egghead's loot, though he escapes capture.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagEssential Ant-Man #1 published February 2002
as The Terrible Traps of Egghead! [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 Terrible Traps of Egghead! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man #1 [unnamed variant] published January 2013
as The Terrible Traps of Egghead! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: X-213
Disclose Notes: Job number revealed on original art.

Egghead last appeared in issue #38 (December 1962), he next appears in issue #57 (July 1964).
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The Future

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Ted Jason; Olaf
First Line: As the quiz master on a national television program, Ted Jason's rating was tops.
Synopsis: A quiz show host finds himself mysteriously transported to the far future for a brief time.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMystical Tales #3 published October 1956
was The Future [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: [K-318]
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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Bronson's Brain!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Bruno Bronson (called Boris in one panel)
First Line: Talk about brains!
Synopsis: Bronson, an incredible genius upset that no one on earth can match his tremendous intellect, builds a space ship and travels to a planet of highly advanced aliens. After the aliens test Bronson, they determine that his intelligence is so low compared to their species, that the earthling must be imprisoned for his own safety.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagReturn of the Jedi Weekly #83 published January 19854 pages as R2-D2's Tales from the Data Banks
In Content Item: FlagL'Incroyable Hulk #13 published January 1972
as Le cerveau de Bronson ! [Story on Interior Page(s)]N&B [B&W]
In Content Item: FlagIl Mitico Thor #70 published December 1973
as Il cervello di Bronson! [Story on Interior Page(s)]as "Il cervello di Bronson!", Italian translation
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #4 [Regular Edition] published January 2012
as Bronson's Brain! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: X-215
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It Walks Like a Man!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Ben Trent; Ronnie Trent; Helen Trent; Carlo
First Line: The time is Christmas, 1973!
Synopsis: A man is disturbed by his daughter's attachment to her new robot playmate, but changes his mind when it saves her life.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagL'Incroyable Hulk #74/75 published October 1977
as Il marche comme un homme ! [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 It Walks Like a Man! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: X-214
Disclose Notes: This story is an altered retelling of "Robot Hater!", drawn by Paul Reinman in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #3 (May 1959).

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