Duncan McAlpine Comics

Tales to Astonish #54, VFN 8.0, Apr 1964

Lovely raw cents issue! Bright cover colours, fresh Off White to White pages and both staples firmly fixed in the spine. Very bright clean back cover. The inside front and back covers too are a bright Off White to White. Original owner

What a pleasure to read an unslabbed high grade copy, the adverts, the letters pages too – it’s an incredible survivor from 58 years ago!

A classic Stan Lee/Marvel commie-bashing story. Very much of its Cold War time. The country of Santo Rico has elected a communist president, El Toro. Giant-Man and the Wasp are sent to prove that the election was tampered with. They find evidence of voter bribery and El Toro is deposed. Stan Lee script, Don Heck art.

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