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Series: Tales to Astonish

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Publisher: Marvel

Title: Tales to Astonish
Publisher: Marvel
Year Began: 1959
Year Ended: 1968
Country: United States
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Description: Launched as an SF anthology series along with Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) and Strange Worlds (Marvel, 1958 series) to expand and revamp Marvel's SF line (along with the revived Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) and two pre-existing titles) following Jack Kirby's return to the company. Almost all new stories were narrated in the first person to issue #17 (March 1961). Tales to Astonish included an Ant-Man/Giant-Man feature in issues #3569 (starring a character introduced in issue #27), a Wasp feature in issues #5158, a Hulk feature from issue #60 (October 1964) and a Sub-Mariner feature from issue #70 (August 1966). Tales to Astonish introduced Hank Pym (Ant-Man/Giant Man), the Wasp and important Hulk villains such as the Leader and the Abomination. It is well known that Stan Lee (sometimes assisted by Larry Lieber, or Lieber on his own) wrote the overwhelming majority of these early monster stories. Where there is no positive confirmation, credits may be listed as "Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ?", or either person individually, or simply "?", according to the indexer's best information.

Assigned Issues

Issue Vol Year # Assigned
1 1 January 1959 2
2 1 March 1959 1
3 1 May 1959 2
5 1 September 1959 1
7 1 January 1960 2
8 1 March 1960 1
9 1 May 1960 1
10 1 July 1960 2
11 1 September 1960 1
13 1 November 1960 2
16 1 February 1961 1
17 1 March 1961 1
19 1 May 1961 1
21 1 July 1961 1
22 1 August 1961 1
23 1 September 1961 1
26 1 December 1961 1
27 1 January 1962 5
27 ( British) 1 January 1962 1
28 1 February 1962 1
29 1 March 1962 1
30 1 April 1962 1
31 1 May 1962 1
32 1 June 1962 1
34 1 August 1962 2
35 1 September 1962 2
36 1 October 1962 1
38 1 December 1962 1
39 1 January 1963 1
40 1 February 1963 1
41 1 March 1963 1
42 1 April 1963 1
44 1 June 1963 5
45 1 July 1963 1
48 1 October 1963 1
49 1 November 1963 2
59 1 September 1964 1
62 1 December 1964 2
63 1 January 1965 2
70 1 August 1965 1
83 1 September 1966 1
90 1 April 1967 2
93 1 July 1967 2
101 1 March 1968 1





Data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution license.

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