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Title: MISTERIOS DEL GATO NEGRO No. 104 * Mexican ASTONISHING No. 63
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Publisher:La Prensa
Date Published: August, 1959
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CGC certified: VF- (7.5). Light tan to off-white pages. Mexican version of Astonishing #63 (Atlas, 1957). Color interiors. Stories translated into Spanish. Cover: Bill Everett. Art: Richard Doxsee, George Woodbridge, Bob Forgione, Don Perlin, Don Heck, Fred Kida. CGC Census: This is the only graded copy. GPAnalysis: No reported sales in any grade.

More Atlas grist for the La Prensa reprint mill. Atlas racked up a huge catalogue of material during the pre-implosion years, and although much of the material wasn't especially distinctive, the sheer volume made for abundant reprint fodder, both at home and abroad. "We worked according to whatever the trend was.... Whatever was trendy at the moment, we published.... We did fantasy books – Strange Tales, Astonishing, Journey into Unknown Worlds, Uncanny tales, Adventures into Terror.... None of them were particularly good, none of them were particularly bad. They were just production jobs." – Stan Lee, interviewed by David Anthony Kraft, Stan Lee Conversations. University Press of Mississippi: 1997, pp. 86-87.

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