Astonishing Tales 1970 #18 - back issue - $4.00

Ka-Zar manages to get the super-soldier serum back from Gemini. Gog uses his alien powers to transport himself away while Gemini and Lord Plunder escape. Professor Victor Conrad takes the original super-soldier serum when SHIELD attempts to destroy his lab and the formula and finds himself transformed into Victorius.

On-sale date from The Comic Reader #94, February 1973.

• Bite-Size Bits and Beatific Bromides! (Or: Half a Bullpen Page Is Better Than None!) - Items about how Stan Lee is so busy that he is going to forego writing his Soapbox for now, Monsters Unleashed is the newest magazine to come out (including a Solomon Kane tale by Robert E. Howard and a werewolf thriller by Robert Bloch), next month we'll talk about Tales of the Zombie and Vampire Tales, a plug for the current Spider-Man super-spectacular and the debut of the new digest-sized magazine called Haunt of Horror edited by Gerry Conway (with help from Roy Thomas and George Alec Effinger) with stories by Fritz Leiber, Harlan Ellison, R.A. Lafferty and others and a cover illustration by Gray Morrow.
• The Ultimate Fan Club! - Advertisement for a subscription to FOOM describing what is included (a 22" x 28" poster, a membership card, a fistful of stick-ons, full year's subscription to FOOM magazine and a special surprise envelope that everything comes in).
• - Includes letters from (and answers to) Richard Lyczak, J.B. and Howard L. Miller.
• Warning! A Nefarious New, Giant-Size Comic-Mag Has Escaped From the Vaults of Macabre Marvel! - Advertisement for Monsters Unleashed #1 using a panel from the first story in the issue and a description of the contents.