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Issue: Tales to Astonish #44

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Publication Date: June 1963

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Issues: #44 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)
4 (3 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 #44 [unnamed variant]

Tales to Astonish #44 [British]

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Content Items (4 total)

The Creature From Kosmos!!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

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Pages: 1

The Creature from Kosmos!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Joe

First Line: Throughout history there have been men who have become legends, men who have...

Synopsis: When a fellow scientist is killed by an alien being, Ant-Man enlists the help of the dead man's daughter. He gives her the ability to shrink and tiny wasp wings, and she joins him as his partner the Wasp. The duo use the alien's acidic nature to destroy it, saving the city.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 18

Job Number: X-192

Notes: In addition to introducing the Wasp, this story fleshes out Henry Pym's background and introduces the death of his wife as a motivating factor.

Blueprint for Victory

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

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Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: war

Character(s): LtC. Cam Westover; Maj. Franks; Cpt. Bill Trayne; Gen. von Kretz

First Line: The Rhine and its ruined bridges lay thirty miles behind and the roads were...

Synopsis: A cunning spy infiltrates German HQ with a phoney blueprint as bait and paralyzes communications before a major US assault.

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Pages: 2

Job Number: G-60

Notes: Text story with illustration.

Hunted

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

First Line: The odds were impossible?

Synopsis: In the year 2000 all of New York City is searching for a 'plague carrier' who is attempting to escape notice and flee the city. He is apprehended at a transportation center and the police remove the 'plague' from him which turns out to be a handgun he had stolen from a museum which officials had worried could back bring the plague of war.

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Pages: 5