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Issue: Tales to Astonish #51
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Is Variant Variant: British
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
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Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
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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)
5 (4 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
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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
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Giant-Man's Showdown with the Human Top!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Subject Matter
superhero
Can't catch him--he's too fast for me!
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Showdown with the Human Top!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Subject Matter
superhero
This is it, Jan!
Human Top steals civil defense plans and wants to sell them to the Communists. Giant-Man lures him into a trap and captures him.
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Miscellaneous
13
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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.
The Sorcerer

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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typeset
Subject Matter
fantasy, occult
Tom Morton; Jack Morton; Ellen Morton; Johnny Morton
From the time he was a little boy, Tom Morton had the "wanderer's itch."
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.
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Text story with illustration.
No Place to Turn!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Subject Matter
science fiction
Centaurians; Mongoids
Behold the awesome Mongoids, intergalactic warriors, as they plan their next conquest...
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.
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Miscellaneous
5
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Somewhere Waits a Wobbow!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Subject Matter
science fiction
Rack Morgan; Sam; Joe
When she's not on a case with Giant-Man, Janet Van Dyne devotes a great deal of time visiting...
The Wasp tells the tale of future mercenary pilot Rack Morgan who disobeys the rules once too many.
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5
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This is the first "Wasp Tells a Tale" feature.

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