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Issue: Tales to Astonish #34

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Publication Date: August 1962

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Issues: #34 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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2 Tales to Astonish #34 [unnamed variant]

Tales to Astonish #34 [British]

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Content Items (6 total)

Monster at My Window!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Paul Marshall

First Line: Heaven help me--it's true!

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Pages: 1

Notes: This cover art is taken from the splash page of the lead story, with minor alterations.

A Monster at My Window!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Paul Marshall

First Line: Paul Marshall is a famous writer of science-fiction tales!

Synopsis: An alien from another dimension threatens a science fiction writer, but the writer is a hostile alien from a different dimension.

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Pages: 7

Job Number: V-777

Masquerade

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Penciller(s): ? (illustration)

Inker(s): ? (illustration)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy, occult

Character(s): Tommy; Kitty Blake; Old King Cole

First Line: Tommy used to be the fellow from Missouri...

Synopsis: A man with no imagination is invited to a costume party by his girlfriend, but stumbles across real fairy-tale folk instead.

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Pages: 2

Job Number: [G-750]

The Strange Fate of the Statue Maker!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Luther Benedict

First Line: Take a lonely hill... put a mysterious laboratory atop it... and you've...

Synopsis: An inventor accidentally invents a petrification device and decides to use it to turn attractive people into detailed statues. His first victim is so beautiful that he decides to release her, but accidentally petrifies himself.

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Pages: 6

Job Number: V-778

Notes: Job number revealed on original art. Info per Nick Caputo: https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/complete-story/jack-kirby-and-paul-reinman-tales-to-astonish-34-complete-6-page-story-the-strange-fate-of-the-statue-maker-original-art/a/818-4251.s

The Invaders

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

First Line: Never in all of recorded history did an invasion end up the way this one did!

Synopsis: Aliens from a dry desert world park their invasion fleet on a large expanse of the ocean thinking it to be a solid surface whereupon the ships sink like stones.

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Pages: 5

Dance, You Fool

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, occult

Character(s): Carlos Carter

First Line: I am a rooming house... old, shabby and weatherworn!

Synopsis: An unsuccessful dancer overhears the old man in the room next to him saying that his old pair of dancing shoes can make anyone a great dancer. He steals the shoes from the old man, but finds that he can never stop dancing.

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Pages: 5

Notes: Narrated by the rooming house where the protagonist lives.