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Series: Tales to Astonish

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Publisher: Marvel

Title: Tales to Astonish
Issue: 8
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: March 1960
Volume: 1

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TALES TO ASTONISH #8
Owner: Pawwauw Comics

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Story Title: Mummex King of the Mummies, Lives Again!! - cover
Pages:1
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Mummex [Raaka]


Story Title: I Dared Defy the Floating Head! - comic story
Pages:6
Genre:detective-mystery
Characters:Bruce; Hank Rogers; Mayor Robert F. Wagner, Jr. (cameo)
Synopsis:A giant floating head appears over New York, claiming that it is the advance scout of an alien invasion, and ordering everyone to evacuate. People panic when the head destroys a warehouse to demonstrate its power, but a young boy reveals that the whole thing is a hoax by criminals hoping to loot the empty city.


Story Title: I Live Again! - comic story
Pages:5
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Evil [only called "The Thing from Bald Mountain" in a caption]
Synopsis:The animated statue rises up from where it fell in the last story and decides to go to America so that it can conquer the world. When it arrives it hides in a building that is actually a rocket that is shot into space.


Story Title: New Glasses - text story
Pages:2
Letters:typeset
Genre:fantasy
Characters:Herbert; Mr. Blooper
Synopsis:A man insists on getting a specially made pair of glasses in a hurry, and finds that the optician has a magical corridor that leads back in time.


Story Title: I–Am–The–Genie! - comic story
Pages:6
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Freddy
Synopsis:A criminal finds a genie and uses it to wreak havoc, but when he goes too far he takes the genie’s place in the bottle.


Story Title: Mummex---King of the Mummies! - comic story
Pages:6
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Mummex [Raaka]; Paul Fleming; Sara
Synopsis:An archaeologist finds a giant mummy in the Egyptian desert. It rises and searches the tombs and museums of the area, examining several mummies before returning into the desert. The scientist follows it and sees the mummy enter a spaceship and lift-off. It was actually an explorer looking for missing space pilots, who wear mummy-like bandages as protective suits.


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