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Astonishing #34

Marvel · Series began 1951 · August 1954

Dates

Cover date
August 1954
On sale
April 19, 1954
Pages
36

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Joe Maneely, Paul Reinman, Myron Fass, Al Carreño, Ed Moline, George Oleseninks: Joe Maneely, Paul Reinman, Myron Fass, Al Carreño, Ed Moline, George Olesencolors: Stan Goldberg

Stories

  • Knockout · 5 pages

    A crooked boxing promoter meets his end when the ghost of a fighter he set up ties him up in rope and stuffs him into the gym's punching bag.

  • The House That Hate Built · 2 pages
  • The Tomb! · 5 pages

    A woman excavating a tomb attempts to eliminate her rival by using dynamite but the explosion blinds her. When she feels around and thinks the body she touches is the man she wanted and accidentally killed, she uses another stick to kill herself as well. The man is actually still alive and comments that it is odd she embraces a mummy in her death throes.

  • The Slave-Driver · 4 pages

    A sea captain that is set adrift after his crew mutinies comes ashore on an island where a plantation owner makes a slave out of him.

  • Transformation! · 4 pages

    A gangster doesn't get the results he wants when he threatens a plastic surgeon to repair his acid-scarred face and the doctor remakes his face to resemble a woman's.

  • Heads Will Roll · 5 pages

    An executioner who wishes for more business takes up the practice of murdering people himself because he knows the courts will convict someone of the killing.

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