A price variant intended for distribution in the United Kingdom, with replaced cover price, cover month removed and Thorpe & Porter distribution appended to indicia.
This issue is a variant of Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #39.
in Hulk Comic (Marvel UK, 1979 series) #8 (April 25 1979) [Extensively edited to bring the story length down to 2.5 pages. Prints pages 2-5], #9 (May 2 1979) [Extensively edited to bring the story length down to 3.5 pages. Prints, in this sequence, detail from cover, used as story panel; pages 6-7; page 8, panels 1-5; page 9, panel 1; page 1; page 8, panel 6; page 9, panels 2-6; page 10. panels 1-5 & 7-8]
How can anyone possibly dream up a fantasy story as simple as a few toy soldiers?
Genre
science fiction
Characters
Billy Barton; Zogg
Synopsis
A boy who enjoys toy soldiers buys a new civil war figure to place in his prisoner of war stockade. That evening, he and his father are attacked by an invader from the sixth dimension. Suddenly, the lights go out, and when they turn the lights back on, the invader has disappeared. They chalk it up to some sort of unusual shared dream, and go back to sleep. The following morning when the boy wakes up and peers into his model stockade, he sees the invader languishing in the cell guarded over by the toy soldier.