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Issue: Tales to Astonish #18
Publication Date: April 1961
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Issues: #18 of 101 Issues (177 Printings)
Title:
Is Variant Variant: British
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN:
Price: 9.0 pence GBQ 0-0-9
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
7 (5 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
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Disclose Notes: A price variant intended for distribution in the United Kingdom, with replaced cover price.
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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
Format Notes:  
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Gorgilla Strikes Again!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Gorgilla
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover is taken from splash page of story.
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Gorgilla Strikes Again!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Gorgilla; Scotty; Anne
First Line: In the October issue of Tales to Astonish we gave you the story of Gorgilla!
Synopsis: Gorgilla stows away on a ship to America to contact the human race, but is met with fear and violence in New York. He stumbles across some communist spies and stops an assassination, but is killed by the military out of fear.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-122
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. Gorgilla last appeared in issue #12 (October 1960), and later appears in Marvel Universe (Marvel, 1998 series) and Defenders (Marvel, 2001 series) #1 (March 2001).
Story is presented in two parts.
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Part 2...Gorgilla Strikes Again!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Gorgilla; Scotty; Anne
First Line: Hungry, lonely, utterly confused, the giant Gorgilla desperately made another attempt to...
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: V-122
Disclose Notes: Story is presented in two parts.
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The Stranger

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
First Line: They say there are stranger things happening on this old Earth of ours than one is...
Synopsis: A painting of a Napoleonic victory parade is mysteriously linked to an eccentric inhabitant of modern Paris.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1.75
Job Number: G-76
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. The first page of this story is printed between the pages of the lead story, while the second page is printed between the two back-up stories. The last page is split with the statement of ownership.
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Monsteroso

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Monsteroso
First Line: A strange egg rests on the ground--shunned by both plant and animal life!
Synopsis: A creature hatches from an egg and imagines itself lord of all it surveys, but it is suddenly drowned, as it is only a microbe in a scientist's culture.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-105
Disclose Notes: This story is an altered retelling of "Earth Will Be Destroyed!" drawn by Steve Ditko in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #9 (May 1960). Stan Lee is given a speculative writing credit based on his authorship of another retelling of the same story. Suspicions of Lee's scripting.
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Statement Required by the Act of August 24, 1912, as Amended by the Acts of March 3, 1933, July 2, 1946 and June 11, 1960 (74 Stat. 208)

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.25
Disclose Notes: Average circulation per issue October 1959–September 1960 (issues #8–16): 163,156. This shares the last page of "The Stranger".
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Robot on the Rampage!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: The time... a few years in the future!
Synopsis: A robot stationed at a lighthouse rebels against his human master and the man manages to lock the robot outside where the food supply is stashed, but thanks to the salty sea air, it rusts completely within a mere matter of hours rendering it harmless to carry out its threats.
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-111

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