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Series: Tales to Astonish

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Publisher: Marvel

Title: Tales to Astonish
Issue: 17
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: March 1961
Volume: 1

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TALES TO ASTONISH #17
Owner: Pawwauw Comics

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Story Title: Vandoom! He Who Made a Creature! - cover
Pages:1
Genre:horror-suspense; science fiction
Characters:Vandoom's Creature


Story Title: Vandoom, the Man Who Made a Creature!, Chapter 1 - comic story
Pages:6
Genre:horror-suspense; science fiction
Characters:Ludwig Vandoom; Vandoom's Creature
Synopsis:Vandoom, the owner of a Transylvanian wax museum, sets out to build a new monster in order to bring customers back to the museum. A lightning bolt brings the creature to life, but despite the fearful attacks of the villagers, it is not hostile and does not strike back. An invasion force of Martians lands and Vandoom convinces his creation to attack them. The wax figure defeats them, but the effort drains the life force out of it.


Story Title: Chapter 2: The Mark of Vandoom - comic story
Pages:7
Genre:horror-suspense; science fiction
Characters:Ludwig Vandoom; Vandoom's Creature


Story Title: The Spirit - text story
Pages:2
Letters:typeset
Genre:fantasy
Characters:Bobby Davis; Tom Davis; Alice Davis;
Synopsis:A young boy cleans out the attic of the old house his family moved into and meets a ghost from the Revolutionary War era.


Story Title: Beware! Of the Ghastly Glass! - comic story
Pages:5
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Bruno
Synopsis:A man kills to gain possession of a magic crystal that grants him four wishes, but even his carefully worded wishes backfire, stranding him on the Moon.


Story Title: I Dared to Enter the Haunted Room! - comic story
Pages:5
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Mr. Smith
Synopsis:A scientist builds an ultimate bomb and plans to use it to hold the world hostage. He hides it in a room believed haunted, but when he goes to give his ultimatum to the UN he realizes that he is now a ghost.


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