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Issue: Tales to Astonish #26

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Publication Date: December 1961

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Issues: #26 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 #26 [unnamed variant]

Tales to Astonish #26 [British]

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Content Items (6 total)

The Four-Armed Things!; He Walked Thru Walls!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, occult, science fiction

Character(s): William Cartwright

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Look Out!! Here Come the...Four-Armed Men!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): "Anne Morgan"; William Cartwright; Bruno

First Line: It was on a bleak rainy night that nurse Anne Morgan arrived at...

Synopsis: An explorer learns of an invasion of four-armed aliens. His nurse tells him his bodyguard is one of the aliens, but he realizes that she is the real alien.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Job Number: V-402

The Weatherman

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy, occult, science fiction

Character(s): Willie Wimms; Hugh Wimms

First Line: "Don't know what the world is coming to," said Willie Wimms as he put down the morning newspaper.

Synopsis: In the future, young boy's afternoon is nearly ruined by a scheduled rainstorm, but when he runs into the rainmaker's magical assistant, he gets a delay.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Job Number: K-71

Notes: Text story with illustration.

He Walked Through Walls!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, occult

Character(s): Silas Birch; Charles J. Cragmore

First Line: In every century there have been greedy, discontented men like Silas Birch...

Synopsis: A stranger performs feats of magic, and offers anything that people might want if they sign a contract. He helps a disgruntled clerk steal money and get away, but the clerk is stranded on an island forever.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Job Number: V-403

Notes: Dick Ayers Inks credit from Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 Series) #3.

Run, Rocky, Run!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Rocky Jordan

First Line: Midnight!! The city's darkness holds a thousand stories...

Synopsis: A criminal on the run plans to stow-away on the experimental rocket he reads about, but finds out too late that is an advanced miniature rocket that cannot carry a pilot.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: V-405

Notes: The last page includes an advertisement for the Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series). Retold as a Tales of the Watcher story as "Run, Roco, Run" by Stan Lee and Howard Purcell in Silver Surfer (Marvel, 1968 series) #5 (April 1969). Stan Lee given a tentative writer's credit based on his authorship of the retelling.

Dream World

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

First Line: When a man is tired...

Synopsis: A man repeatedly dreams that his bed is levitating, and can’t tell if he’s dreaming or not.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-380

Notes: Narrated in the second person. This story is presented, according to a caption, because of positive response to "The Silent Screen" in issue #21 (July 1961), a similarly structured story. The last page carries an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko. Stan Lee adopts Cartesian philosophical skepticism regarding dreams.