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Issue: Tales to Astonish #51
Publication Date: January 1964
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Issues: #51 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: 10/01/1963
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 October 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 In16
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Giant-Man's Showdown with the Human Top!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
First Line: Can't catch him--he's too fast for me!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagEssential Ant-Man #1 published February 2002
as Giant-Man's Showdown with the Human Top! [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 #51 [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 Don't Miss "Giant-Man's Showdown with the Human Top!" [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Showdown with the Human Top!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
First Line: This is it, Jan!
Synopsis: Human Top steals civil defense plans and wants to sell them to the Communists. Giant-Man lures him into a trap and captures him.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagEssential Ant-Man #1 published February 2002
as Showdown with the Human Top! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man #1 [Regular Edition] published March 2006
as Showdown With the Human Top! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man #1 [unnamed variant] published January 2013
as Showdown with the Human Top! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: X-501
Disclose Notes: Job number revealed on original art. Info per Nick Caputo: https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1100143

Continues from last issue. The Wasp wears a new helmet, the first of many costume changes.
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The Sorcerer

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Character(s): Tom Morton; Jack Morton; Ellen Morton; Johnny Morton
First Line: From the time he was a little boy, Tom Morton had the "wanderer's itch."
Synopsis: A man who has travelled the world and seen wonders performed by hermits in India returns home to find that his young nephew creates magic with only belief.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales of the Unusual #1 published December 1955
was The Sorcerer [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: [H-203]
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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No Place to Turn!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Centaurians; Mongoids
First Line: Behold the awesome Mongoids, intergalactic warriors, as they plan their next conquest...
Synopsis: Aliens transform a spy into a human, but because they can only receive black-and-white images from Earth they leave him green and he is discovered.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCapitaine America #41 published January 1975
as Pris au piège! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #4 [Regular Edition] published January 2012
as No Place to Turn! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: X-462
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Somewhere Waits a Wobbow!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Rack Morgan; Sam; Joe
First Line: When she's not on a case with Giant-Man, Janet Van Dyne devotes a great deal of time visiting...
Synopsis: The Wasp tells the tale of future mercenary pilot Rack Morgan who disobeys the rules once too many.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagWomen of Marvel: Celebrating Seven Decades Omnibus #[nn] [Olivier Coipel Cover] published November 2010
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales #5 published November 1966
as Somewhere Waits a Wobbow! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #90 published January 1972
as Somewhere Waits a Wobbow! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCapitaine America #18 published February 1973
as Quelque part attend un "Wobbow" [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEdderkoppen #1/1981 published January 1981
as Der ute venter en wobbow! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Ant-Man #1 published February 2002
as Somewhere Waits a Wobbow! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man #1 [Regular Edition] published March 2006
as Somewhere Waits a Wobbow! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man #1 [unnamed variant] published January 2013
as Somewhere Waits a Wobbow! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: X-502
Disclose Notes: This is the first "Wasp Tells a Tale" feature.

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