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Issue: Tales to Astonish #47
Publication Date: September 1963
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Issues: #47 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: 06/04/1963
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 June 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:  
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Disclose Reprinted In10
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Music to Scream By!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
First Line: Where can the Wasp be?
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagEssential Ant-Man #1 published February 2002
as Music to Scream By! [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 #47 [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 Super-Fantasy in the Marvel Manner!! "Music to Scream By!" [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Music to Scream By

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Mr. Cosgrove; Foss (ant); Ghazandi; Korr (ant, death); Mr. Nehradu; Ramond Theis; Harry
First Line: That macabre music, it--it's piercing my brain, stealing my senses away!
Synopsis: Ant-Man and the Wasp are caught by the music of Trago, the trumpet player, who has learned some mystic use of his trumpet in India. They defeat him at the cost of a brave ant's life.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagEssential Ant-Man #1 published February 2002
as Music to Scream By [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man #1 [Regular Edition] published March 2006
as Music to Scream By [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man #1 [unnamed variant] published January 2013
as Music to Scream By [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: X-353
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The Disappearance

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Character(s): Jasper Milty (Tom's grandfather); Tom Milty; Mrs. Milty (Tom's mother); Mr. Milty (Tom's father)
First Line: The atomic age and the stories of people from other planets were too...
Synopsis: An old man disgruntled with society becomes rich by discovering uranium.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #41 published March 1956
was The Disappearance [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: [H-320]
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The Smiling Gods!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): General Chao-Tung
First Line: Nothing could erase their smiles!
Synopsis: Asian farmers pray to their gods for a good crop to appease their cruel overlord, and their grain grows so rapidly that it entangles and crushes him.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #4 [Regular Edition] published January 2012
as The Smiling Gods! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #101 published ?
as The Smiling Gods! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: X-354
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Target...Earth!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Ba-Korr; Sagar
First Line: He was the mightiest warrior in the universe!
Synopsis: An alien lands on Earth with the intent of sizing up possible resistance to an invasion force. If the scout does not return within 48 hours, plans for the invasion will be called off. The scout finds the humans puny as potential warriors and is able to lift locomotives off the ground. He laughs as he thinks this will be the easiest conquest ever and heads back to his ship where he finds that it has sunk out of sight in the bog.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #4 [Regular Edition] published January 2012
as Target... Earth! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #101 published ?
as Target... Earth! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: X-355

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