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Issue: Tales to Astonish #15

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Publication Date: January 1961

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Issues: #15 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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Variants2

Tales to Astonish #15 [unnamed variant]

Tales to Astonish #15 [British]

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Cover, Front

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Content Items (6 total)

The Blip!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Blip

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Pages: 1

I Learned the Dread Secret of the Blip!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Blip

First Line: The electricity--it's coming from the cave!

Synopsis: A power drain and radar anomaly is traced to a creature made of electricity hiding in a cave. It claims to be a friendly visitor, but humans attack it and it flees into space.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Job Number: T-943

The Free Ride

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

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Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Chuck; Gus Farrell; Capt. Zingle

First Line: The first week that Chuck worked for the Palace Amusement Park was pretty wonderful.

Synopsis: A teenager working at an amusement park to help support his family is kind to a mysterious boy, and finds himself rewarded with a real trip to outer space.

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Pages: 2

Job Number: K-91

Notes: Text story with illustration.

I Dared Enter the Forbidden World!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Derek; John; Monga; Uxmal; Antogg

First Line: Africa! Land of mystery--of undreamed-of secrets!

Synopsis: A white game hunter finds the legendary elephant's graveyard, hoping to make a fortune in ivory. He discovers that elephants were introduced to Earth by Martians, who use the graveyard as a gathering point for the ivory, and won't let him leave.

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Pages: 6

Job Number: T-952

I Am the Invisible!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, occult

Character(s): Prof. Karlos Konak; Zuka

First Line: Yes I, and I alone, am... the invisible!!

Synopsis: A man threatens a witch unless she hands over two lenses which will make him invisible. She implores him not to try it, but relinquishes the lens. They can be reversed to make the invisible visible once again, but what the man did not expect is that when he becomes invisible to the outside world, the outside world in turn becomes invisible to him.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: T-951

I Defied the Curse of Tut-Ah-Anka!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

First Line: I've been in and out of trouble all my life!

Synopsis: A criminal hides from the police in an old Egyptian tomb, ignoring the warning of a curse. He not only escapes the police, but has a run of luck that makes him rich and happy. Or so he thinks, as the gas in the tomb drove him mad and he is delusional in an Egyptian hospital.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: T-933