Astounding Stories
#182
([circa 1986 - 1987])
Alan Class,
1966 Series
- Price
- 0.30 GBP
- Pages
- 52
- On-sale Date
- 1986 ?
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Alan Class & Co. Ltd
- Brand
-
Class Series
- Editing
- Alan Class (reprint editor)
Issue Notes
Issue is undated. Estimated date based on analysis of brands and cover prices in the series.
Spacious Rooms to Rent
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
-
from Shadows from Beyond (Charlton, 1966 series) #50 (October 1966)
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'Spacious' Rooms for Rent
Old Gypsy / comic story / 9 pages
- Script
- Joe Gill ?
- Pencils
- Pat Boyette (signed)
- Inks
- Pat Boyette (signed)
- Letters
- Pat Boyette (signed)
- Job Number
- B-157
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Old Gypsy (host); Mr. Smith (retired landlord); Mrs. Winterbottom (tenant); Mr. Baumgartner (tenant); Mr. Kewtie (tenant); Alien
- Reprints
- from Shadows from Beyond (Charlton, 1966 series) #50 (October 1966)
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Reprieve!
Old Gypsy / comic story / 9 pages
- Job Number
- B-158
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Old Gypsy (host); Hans Schneider (defendant); Kreugg (defense lawyer); Gerta Muller (witness); Wilhelm Krauss (guard); Kuss (executioner)
- Synopsis
- Ex-Nazi concentration camp commander Hans Schneider is on trial for war crimes but his hypnotic lawyer, Kreugg, somehow gets witnesses to recant their testimony and Schneider is acquitted. His freedom is short-lived, however, as Kreugg brings him back to the concentration camp, now teeming with ghosts of his victims.
- Reprints
- from Shadows from Beyond (Charlton, 1966 series) #50 (October 1966)
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He'll Go a Long Way
Old Gypsy / comic story / 9 pages
- Job Number
- B-156
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Old Gypsy; Boyce Haskell (con artist); Bill (Boyce's partner); Bill's wife
- Synopsis
- Unscrupulous con man Boyce Haskell feels ripped off when he gets a fortune from the Old Gypsy - that he'll "go a long way." He borrows money from his friend Bill, using it to get wealthier as he makes shady deals. He gets Bill involved in an apartment house building scheme where Boyce makes a bundle but Bill goes to jail for swindling. Chased by Bill's irate wife onto an empty subway train, Boyce sees his fortune coming true as it leaves the tracks and flies high up above the Earth.
- Reprints
- from Shadows from Beyond (Charlton, 1966 series) #50 (October 1966)
-
The Gorilla from Outer Space!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed)
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed as S. Ditko)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed as S. Ditko)
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It had all started out as a gag, but sometimes even a...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Mike Mullins
- Synopsis
- A ventriloquist makes it seem that a gorilla is talking, and finds out that the gorilla really is a sentient alien.
- Reprints
- from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #36 (December 1962)
-
The Green Hat
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- G-537
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Reprints
-
from Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #50 which is reprinted - from Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #32 (August 1955)
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The Boy with Second Sight
Fanfare Series / comic story / 4 pages
- Characters
- Roy Heddon; Jim Heddon; Ellen Heddon
- Reprints
- from Adventures into the Unknown (American Comics Group, 1948 series) #130 (February 1962) which is reprinted
- from Forbidden Worlds (American Comics Group, 1951 series) #62 (January 1958) [titled]
-
The Mountain Monster
comic story / 10 pages
- Job Number
- B-149
- Genre
- horror-suspense; science fiction
- Reprints
- from Fantastic Giants (Charlton, 1966 series) #24 (September 1966)
-
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Spacious Rooms to Rent
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1.
'Spacious' Rooms for Rent
Old Gypsy -
2.
Reprieve!
Old Gypsy -
3.
He'll Go a Long Way
Old Gypsy -
4.
The Gorilla from Outer Space!
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5.
The Green Hat
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6.
The Boy with Second Sight
Fanfare Series -
7.
The Mountain Monster
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Roger Brochu
- Peter Croome
- Katy Hayhurst
- Karsten S.
- Ramon Schenk
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