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Issue: Tales to Astonish #19
Publication Date: May 1961
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Issues: #19 of 101 Issues (177 Printings)
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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)
6 (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 and cover month removed.
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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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Rommbu!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
Character(s): Rommbu
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Pages: 1
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Rommbu!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
Character(s): Rommbu; Pete Hunter; John Hunter
First Line: It's Rommbu!
Synopsis: An escaped geologist convicted of armed robbery leads an alien invader to an active volcano in order to sacrifice himself to destroy the alien and protect the planet.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-138
Disclose Notes: This story is divided into two untitled parts (6 pp, 7 pp). Rommbu next appears in Marvel Monsters: Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (December 2005).
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Rommbu! Part Two

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Rommbu; Pete Hunter; John Hunter
First Line: Not knowing that a human was hidden in his ship, the menacing Rommbu climbed...
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Pages: 7
Job Number: V-138
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The Tree

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Character(s): Wally Hadley
First Line: Living far out in the country was going to be a lot of fun, young Wally decided.
Synopsis: When a family moves to a house in the country their son finds a gnarled little tree on their land that grants wishes.
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Pages: 2
Job Number: K-435
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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The Thing with the Red Eyes

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Vince Kane; Al Rocco
First Line: It is just a funny-looking little doll with big, red eyes!
Synopsis: A gangster buys a pincushion doll that looks like his rival, and his reactions to pins stuck in it convince him that it works. He throws the doll out the window of a tall building, but his rival has altered the doll to look like him instead.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: V-139
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the second person.
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The Terrible Trap!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Bart Magor; Zomok
First Line: Run! Run, you brainless creature!
Synopsis: A hunter with contempt for the animals he captures is captured by giant aliens and placed in a maze from which he can see a rocketship he could use to pilot his way home if only he could figure out how to escape the maze.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: V-137

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