Astonishing Tales #14

Dates

Cover date

October 1972

On sale

July 18, 1972

Pages

36

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #14 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

• Original edition20¢ cover

  Source ↗
• UK pence edition0.06 GBP cover

  British

  Printed cover price 0.06 GBP.

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Creators

Stories

• The Night of the Looter! · 14 pages

  Carla and Ralph come to the Savage Land with a Swamp Tank to steal Ka-Zar's vibranium, but when they force him to open the door to where it is stored the vibranium destroys the tank. Carla is carried off and killed by the Swamp Men when Ralph is not able to save her because the gun he was using only had blanks due to Carla replacing the bullets with blanks in an effort to get Ralph killed.

• Jungle Fever! · 6 pages

  Jann goes deep into the swampland to get the rare red orchid for Pat Mahoney to photograph, unfortunately, the smell of this orchid causes a fever in Jann's jungle friends so she has to go even deeper into the swampland to find the rare black orchid which can cure the fever. She finds it but has to fight off dinosaurs and a living wall of thorns to get it. She is almost trapped by the wall of thorns but her jungle friends, who had followed her into the swampland, save her after they are cured by her bringing the rare black orchid near them.

Characters

Reprinted in

Marvel Masterworks: Ka-Zar (2013)