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Issue: Tales to Astonish #24

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Publication Date: October 1961

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Issues: #24 of 101 Issues (177 Printings)

Title:

Variant: British

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

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Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN:

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Price: 9.0 pence GBQ 0-0-9

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
6 (5 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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Format

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

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2 Tales to Astonish #24 [unnamed variant]

Tales to Astonish #24 [British]

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Content Items (6 total)

The Abominable Snowman

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, science fiction

Character(s): Abominable Snowman [Victor Cartwright]; Fred Cooper

First Line: It's the Abominable Snowman!!

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: The cover art is also the splash page of the lead story.

I Found the Abominable Snowman! [Part 1]

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, science fiction

Character(s): Victor Cartwright; Fred Cooper; Don Jordan

First Line: Is there really an Abominable Snowman?

Synopsis: A TV producer fakes a film of the Abominable Snowman in the arctic, but runs afoul of an ancient underground civilization of lizard-men and a giant octopus.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Job Number: V-329

Notes: Narrated in the first person.

[I Found the Abominable Snowman!], Part 2: The Snowman's Secret!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Victor Cartwright; Fred Cooper; Don Jordan

First Line: Once again I return from the surface world without having found our brother!

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Job Number: V-329

The Recipe

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

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Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy, occult

Character(s): Josie

First Line: Josie was a tomboy.

Synopsis: A tomboyish girl tries out cooking to appease her mother, but accidentally cooks a witch's brew, totally inappropriate for a fairy like her.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Job Number: K-338

Notes: Text story with illustration.

Something Missing!!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Sally; Tom

First Line: We brought every imaginable gift to the strange, deadly world...

Synopsis: The first mission to Mercury has a stow-away, the lover of one of the pilots. The captain is angry, but when they arrive on Mercury they find that the natives are hostile, and only the girl's display of love towards the pilot convinces them that the humans have something of value to offer.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: V-330

He Waits in the Dark!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, occult

First Line: Somewhere in Europe stands a shabby tenement, in a shabby neighborhood in a shabby city!

Synopsis: A mysterious janitor comes to work for a slumlord, but he has strange powers and ends the man's evil ways.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: V-328