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Issue: Tales to Astonish #23

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Publication Date: September 1961

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Issues: #23 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)
6 (5 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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3 Tales to Astonish #23 [unnamed variant]

Tales to Astonish #23 [British]

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Content Items (6 total)

Moomba Is Here!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, science fiction

Character(s): Moomba

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Pages: 1

The Unbelievable Menace of Moomba [Part 1]

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, science fiction

Character(s): Moomba; Frank; Katu

First Line: As our story begins... There I was...

Synopsis: An explorer discovers that native African wood carvings are actually an advance fifth column invasion force under the command of Moomba. Moomba gives his command to strike and all the carvings get up and begin to herd and intimidate their human owners as the wood they are crafted of is so dense that neither fire nor any other human weapons can defeat them. Using unknown means, a native African witch doctor defeats Moomba and extracts a promise from him to leave Earth along with all of his warriors.

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Pages: 6

Job Number: V-285

Notes: Narrated in the first person. It is an elaboration of the plot of "I Was the Prisoner of the Living Statues!" drawn by John Forte, in Tales to Astonish #6 (November 1959).

[The Unbelievable Menace of Moomba], Part 2: The Menace That Was...Moomba

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Moomba; Frank; Katu

First Line: Moomba's fantastic energy waves spread over the jungle, stretched across the...

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Pages: 7

Job Number: V-285

The Green Man

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Barney

First Line: It was a hot sticky summer night when I stopped in to Barney's for a cool beer before I went home.

Synopsis: A former pilot can't get anyone to believe his story about the fatal radium poisoning he picked up from an alien, and so keeps spreading it.

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Pages: 2

Job Number: A-189

Notes: Text story with illustration.

Less Than Human

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): John Harris; Alice Harris; Billy Harris; Roby the Robot

First Line: It seemed that they were everywhere...

Synopsis: A strident anti-robot activist is convinced of the worth of robots when his son is saved by his robotic playmate.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-284

Notes: Narrated in the first person. This story is an altered retelling of "The Robot Hater", drawn by Paul Reinman in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #3 (May 1959). Writing tentatively credited to Stan Lee on the basis of his plot credit in a later retelling of the story.

The Voice from Nowhere

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

First Line: Only you can save me!!

Synopsis: The space pilot landing on an asteroid is perplexed by a voice from nowhere pleading for help, but he realizes that the asteroid itself is the source of the voice.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-283