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Issue: Tales to Astonish #17

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Publication Date: March 1961

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Issues: #17 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 #17 [unnamed variant]

Tales to Astonish #17 [British]

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Content Items (6 total)

Vandoom! He Who Made a Creature!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, science fiction

Character(s): Vandoom's Creature

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Pages: 1

Vandoom, the Man Who Made a Creature!, Chapter 1

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, science fiction

Character(s): Ludwig Vandoom; Vandoom's Creature

First Line: You, Frankenstein, were the most famous monster to walk the earth...

Synopsis: Vandoom, the owner of a Transylvanian wax museum, sets out to build a new monster in order to bring customers back to the museum. A lightning bolt brings the creature to life, but despite the fearful attacks of the villagers, it is not hostile and does not strike back. An invasion force of Martians lands and Vandoom convinces his creation to attack them. The wax figure defeats them, but the effort drains the life force out of it.

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Pages: 6

Job Number: V-55

Notes: Although vampires were not allowed in Comics Code approved books a wax figure of Dracula (along with other traditional monsters recognizable from the Universal horror films, including the Frankenstein Monster, Wolfman and the Mummy) slips through in this this story.

Chapter 2: The Mark of Vandoom

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, science fiction

Character(s): Ludwig Vandoom; Vandoom's Creature

First Line: Through a one-in-a-billion accident when the mysterious lightning hit my...

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Pages: 7

Job Number: V-55

The Spirit

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy, occult

Character(s): Bobby Davis; Tom Davis; Alice Davis;

First Line: Bobby Davis was despondent.

Synopsis: A young boy cleans out the attic of the old house his family moved into and meets a ghost from the Revolutionary War era.

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Pages: 2

Job Number: J-169

Notes: Text story with illustration.

Beware! Of the Ghastly Glass!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, occult

Character(s): Bruno

First Line: Twilight! Two shadowy figures prowl the streets, searching, seeking...

Synopsis: A man kills to gain possession of a magic crystal that grants him four wishes, but even his carefully worded wishes backfire, stranding him on the Moon.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-54

Notes: Narrated in the third person.

I Dared to Enter the Haunted Room!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Mr. Smith

First Line: It's just nonsense...

Synopsis: A scientist builds an ultimate bomb and plans to use it to hold the world hostage. He hides it in a room believed haunted, but when he goes to give his ultimatum to the UN he realizes that he is now a ghost.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-37