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Series: Tales to Astonish

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Publisher: Marvel

Title: Tales to Astonish
Issue: 29
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: March 1962
Volume: 1

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TALES TO ASTONISH #29
Owner: Pawwauw Comics

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Story Title: When the Space Beasts Attack! - cover
Pages:1
Genre:science fiction


Story Title: When the Space Beasts Attack!! - comic story
Pages:7
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Jeb
Synopsis:An alien armada lands on Earth with weapons that seem to disintegrate anything. Humanity is helpless before the aliens, until they demand a man vacate his farm in order to make way for a spaceport. The farmer gets so angry he lays the alien out with the butt of his rifle. The aliens disintegrate things like trucks and houses, but they don't fire at people. Once the farmer realizes this and spreads the word, the aliens retreat from the human's firearms.


Story Title: The Clock - text story
Pages:2
Pencils:? (illustration)
Inks:? (illustration)
Letters:typeset
Genre:fantasy
Characters:Franz Ammergau; Gerda; Dr. Schmitt
Synopsis:An old clockmaker nearly dies from the cold, but is saved by the wooden figures adorning his clocks, which he has given parts of his own soul.


Story Title: The Man Who Blew Up the Earth! - comic story
Pages:6
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Elias Cragston
Synopsis:A jilted Quasimodo-like scientist devotes all his energy into producing a cobalt bomb which is so powerful that it can shatter the Earth. He wants to destroy all of mankind for jeering at his ugliness. He sneaks on board a rocket that is going into orbit and releases the bomb, but forgot about the lack of gravitational pull, and so the bomb just remains in place until it detonates against the side of the rocket. On Earth, the woman who laughed at him when he proposed marriage, gazes skyward at the explosion and exclaims "Isn't it the most beautiful sight you've ever seen?"


Story Title: What Happened to Harry? - comic story
Pages:5
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Harry Brown; Albert Poole
Synopsis:A brilliant inventor's boss tries to steal his new time machine in order to take credit for it. He uses the time machine to travel to a different time, but ends up in the prehistoric period, where the electricity to power the time machine cannot be found.


Story Title: The Last Laugh! - comic story
Pages:5
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Happy Harper
Synopsis:A vicious practical joker gets his comeuppance in the afterlife.


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