Tales of Suspense #20 (Marvel, 1961) CGC VF- 7.5 White pages....
Auction amount: $480.00
Sold: Oct 14, 2025
Tales of Suspense #20 Values
Publisher: Marvel, 1961
About Tales of Suspense #20
Second appearance of the Colossus. Jack Kirby cover and art. Dick Ayers and Steve Ditko art.Why sell your comic books with Heritage Auctions?
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COVER DETAILS
Characters: Colossus [later called "It, the Living Colossus"]
Pencils: Jack Kirby [as Kirby] (signed)
Inks: Dick Ayers [as Ayers] (signed)
Colors: Stan Goldberg
Letters: Artie Simek
Reprints: Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #25 (September 1973)
STORY DETAILS
Characters: Colossus [later called "It, the Living Colossus"]; Crab-Creatures of Cancrius III; Judy; Frank; Charlie; Ben
Synopsis: The crab-creatures of Cancrius III come back to try to take over the earth and begin by taking control of Colossus again. Bob O'Bryan, a scenery designer, comes up with the idea of creating a plaster of paris creature to trick the crab-creatures into taking over. When the crab-creatures foolishly take it over Bob blows it up, destroying them.
Pages: 6.000
Script: Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Pencils: Jack Kirby [as Kirby] (signed)
Inks: Dick Ayers [as Ayers] (signed)
Letters: Artie Simek
Reprints: Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #25 (September 1973)
Notes: Narrated in the first person. Colossus last appears in issue #14 (February 1961). Colossus, Bob O'Bryan, Diane Cummings and Grant Marshall all appear next in Astonishing Tales (Marvel, 1970 series) #21 (December 1973). George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index credits Stan Lee as sole writer. Story is pages 3-7, 10 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 6).
Data Courtesy of Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license
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CGC Census Report*
| Grade | 0.5 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 5.0 | 5.5 | 6.0 | 6.5 | 7.0 | 7.5 | 8.0 | 8.5 | 9.0 | 9.2 | 9.4 | 9.6 | 9.8 | 9.9 | 10.0 | Total |
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Universal |
1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 4 | 12 | 8 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 106 |
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Qualified |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Signature Series |
0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
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Restored |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Total | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 4 | 12 | 8 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 114 |
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