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Issue: Astonishing #4
Publication Date: June 1951
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Issues: #4 of 61 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: 20th Century Comic Corp.
On Sale Date: 02/20/1951
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On sale date as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, January-June 1951, page 14, registration number B292176.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
Disclose Reprinted In8
Disclose Reprinted From1
reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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The Screaming Tomb!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Marvel Boy; Madame La Morte
First Line: It was just an ordinary dungeon--
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Heroes #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2007
as Astonishing #4 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Boy: The Uranian #2 published April 2010
as Astonishing #4 cover [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]cover
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Colors: Goldberg credit by himself.
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Screaming Tomb!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Marvel Boy [Bob Grayson]; Starr Ryder; Doctor Ryder; Pietro; Madame La Morte
Synopsis: Marvel Boy's lady friend Starr Ryder and her father set out on an expedition in one of Europe's catacombs. There they meet Madame La Morte, a fiend who Marvel Boy theorizes is the spirit of death herself.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Heroes #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2007
as Screaming Tomb! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Boy: The Uranian #2 published April 2010
as Screaming Tomb! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Job Number: 8094
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When a Planet Dies!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Marvel Boy [Bob Grayson]; Matthew Grayson
Synopsis: The Uranian water commissioner creates an artificial drought and attempts to blackmail his way to power.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Heroes #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2007
as When a Planet Dies! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: 8228
Disclose Notes: Job Number from www.atlastales.com.
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The Man Who Vanished

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Heroes #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2007
as The Man Who Vanished [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagMystic #1 published March 1951
was The New England Horror [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "The Man Who Vanished"
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: 6416
Disclose Notes: Job number from www.atlastales.com. Previous indexer missed the text illustration.
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The Nightmare

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Hank Chapman; Stan Lee
Synopsis: A horror writer who uses nightmares for inspiration becomes trapped in his own dreams.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Heroes #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2007
as The Nightmare [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: 8185
Disclose Notes: Hank Chapman and Stan Lee appear in this story.

Job number from www.atlastales.com.
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Walking Ghost

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Marvel Boy [Bob Grayson]; Diana Frost; Roger Carlyle; Gideon Frost
Synopsis: Marvel Boy investigates the appearance of a ghost at the Frost estate.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Heroes #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2007
as Walking Ghost [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: 8093
Disclose Notes: The Gideon Frost is this story is not to be confused with the vampire in the Tomb of Dracula series.

Job number from www.atlastales.com.

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