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Issue: Astonishing Tales #17
Publication Date: April 1973
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Issues: #17 of 36 Issues (70 Printings)
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Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: 01/16/1973
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 The Comic Reader (Paul Levitz, 1972 series) #92 (December 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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Some/all of Issue reprinted as/in 2 other Issues:
FlagMockingbird: Bobbi Morse, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #[nn] published January 2016
FlagMarvel Masterworks: Ka-Zar #2 [unnamed variant] published January 2018
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
First Line: You've had it, Jungle Lord!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters credit from George Olshevsky's The Marvel Comics Index (G&T Enterprises, 1976 series) #7B - Heroes from Tales to Astonish Book 2: Sub-Mariner (July 1978).
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Target: Ka-Zar!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Dr. Wilma Calvin; Damian Link; Joshua "Whitey" Link; Sparky; Dukes; The Pusher; Mel Hawkins; Zack Brewer
Synopsis: While on board the SHIELD helicarrier Ka-Zar sees Gemini steal the super-soldier serum from Dr. Wilma Calvin. He pursues Gemini and ends up finding out that Gemini was working with his brother Lord Plunder (and Gog).
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 20
Job Number: 1318-Z?
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Four or Five Phenomenal Flashes, Fitfully Fashioned to Fight Lethargy! [April 1973]

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Stan Lee shares that the name FOOM is composed of the first letters of four special words, and two of them are "of" "marvel". He wants us to guess the other two, and he will tell us what they are next month.

Items about how Herb Trimpe and Linda Fite are now married, Spider-Man (and his artist Johnny Romita) was featured in "Monster Times" and his scripter Gerry Conway was featured in "The New Yorker", Thongor, Warrior of Lost Lemuria, the creation of Lin Carter, debuts in Creatures on the Loose #22 (story and art by George Alec Effinger and Val Mayerik), the book Origins of Marvel Comics will be delayed because of the recent expansion to well over three dozen titles a month, Roy and Jeanie Thomas and Jim Steranko were the guests of honor at the New England Comics Convention in Boston, Mass., Steve Englehart and Sal Buscema has some far-out and far-reaching new developments in the life of Captain America, and a welcome to Don McGregor, who is helping Roy Thomas and Steve Gerber with the proof-reading chores.

Marvel checklist for comics now on sale! Comics listed with a synopsis are Spider-Man #118, Fantastic Four #132, Captain Marvel #25, Marvel Team-Up #7, Spoof #4, Creatures on the Loose #22, Thor #209, Sub-Mariner #59, Conan the Barbarian #24, Hero For Hire #7, Chamber of Chills #3, Amazing Adventures #17, Marvel Feature #8, and Marvel Premiere #7.

Also includes small headshots of Daredevil, Captain America [Steve Rogers], Iron Man [Tony Stark], Spider-Man, Hulk [Bruce Banner], and the Thing.
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Includes letters from (and answers to): Don L. Tyler, Brian Earl Brown, Ed Pahule, and J.B..

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