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Issue: Tales to Astonish #20

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Publication Date: June 1961

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Issues: #20 of 101 Issues (177 Printings)

Title:

Variant: British

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

Brand:

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)
7 (6 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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Variants2

Tales to Astonish #20 [unnamed variant]

Tales to Astonish #20 [British]

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Cover, Front

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Content Items (7 total)

I Was Hunted By "X" the Thing That Lived!!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): X

First Line: Evacuate the city!!

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

What Was "X" the Thing That Lived! [, Part 1]

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Charles Bentley; X (introduction, origin)

First Line: Charles Bentley was a writer!

Synopsis: A comic writer's monsters keep coming to life, until he creates one that can't be defeated. The monster is unstoppable physically, but he wills it out of existence.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: V-185

Notes: Narrated in the first person. X next appears in Alpha Flight (Marvel, 1997 series) #17 (December 1998). The unnamed editor of Tales to Astonish appears in the story.

[What Was "X" the Thing That Lived!], Part 2

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Charles Bentley; X

First Line: Bentley hurried into the projection room, sat down, and then...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: V-185

[What Was "X" the Thing That Lived!], Part 3

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Charles Bentley; X

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 3

Job Number: V-185

[What Was "X" the Thing That Lived!], Part 4

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Charles Bentley; X

First Line: Charles Bentley, aware that only he could stop the menacing X, drove swiftly back to the city!

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-185

Odd Skills

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Jim Branner; Bill Toney

First Line: When a man who has been very competent suddenly becomes slipshod, there's usually a reason.

Synopsis: The manager of an auto parts shop develops a sudden tolerance for "human variation" in parts, possibly linked to otherworldly strangers in the shop at night.

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Pages: 2

Job Number: J-216

Notes: Text story with illustration.

One-Way Journey!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Adam Gree

First Line: Adam Gree's success would have satisfied anyone else!

Synopsis: A heartless tycoon spends great resources and eliminates jobs in order to build a machine that will transport him from the current moment to one forty years hence because his scientists have predicted an end to disease, war, and poverty in the year 2001, but he neglects to consider his body will age forty years in what seems to his mind merely an instant and, since the machine has only enough power to move forward the one time, he's lost most of the years of his life.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-184