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Issue: Astonishing Tales #15
Publication Date: December 1972
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Issues: #15 of 36 Issues (70 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Magazine Management Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/12/1972
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.20 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 4 (1 story, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Etcetera & The Comic Reader #88 August 1972.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US and later standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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FlagMockingbird: Bobbi Morse, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #[nn] published January 2016
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They Stalk the Concrete Jungle!

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Genres: jungle
Character(s): Vinnie [Percy Ronald Calvin]
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Pages: 1
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...And Who Will Call Him Savage?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: jungle
Character(s): Dr. Wilma Calvin; The Pusher (introduction, villain); Vinnie [Percy Ronald Calvin]; "Scratch" Riker (death); Bee-Jay; Rufus; Jazz; Doctor Wallace; Paul Allen (flashback)
Synopsis: While pledged to watch over Dr. Calvin until she is healed Ka-Zar finds himself stuck in the city. He rescues a pusher from an attack and ends up involved in a turf war. When The Pusher attempts to kidnap Dr. Calvin he stops him and his men but Dr. Calvin has a relapse. Later it turns out that one of the men he took to the police is Dr. Calvin's son.
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Pages: 20
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Marvel Bullpen Bulletins: Dramatic Data, Dynamic Dispatches, and Death-Defying Declarations of Decidedly Dubious Distinction! [December 1972]; Stan Lee's Soapbox; Mighty Marvel Checklist

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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Monster of Frankenstein
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Stan Lee announces the Origins of Marvel Comics book, Monster Madness and FOOM. Items about how Shanna the She-Devil #1 (written by Carol Seuling and drawn by George Tuska) was helped out at the last minute by additional dialogue from Steve Gerber, who also wrote his first solo script in Fear #11 (Man-Thing, drawn by Rich Buckler), information on Gothic Thrillers #1 (featuring a Roy Thomas adaptation of Theodore Sturgeon's story called "It!" with artwork by Marie Severin and Frank Giacoia with a cover by Jim Steranko), information on Jim Steranko also doing the cover to Doc Savage, the Man of Bronze #2, information on Journey Into Mystery #2 featuring an adaptation of the Robert Bloch story "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper" by Gil Kane and Ron Goulart and a note about how Ron Goulart wrote the novel "After Things Fell Apart". Also includes a small illustration of the Monster of Frankenstein advertising his new series. Marvel checklist for comics now on sale! Comics listed with a synopsis are Fantastic Four #129, Thor #206, Doc Savage #2, Captain America #156, Gothic Thrillers #1, Shanna the She-Devil #1, Spider-Man #115, Daredevil #94, Conan the Barbarian #21 and Marvel Spotlight #7.
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Astonishing Mails

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Includes letters from (and answers to) R. Fabotnik, Allen Sweiner and Margo Macleod. Includes a panel from issue #13.

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