Tales to Astonish #13 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1960

About Tales to Astonish #13

The first appearance of Groot of the Guardians of the Galaxy. Jack Kirby cover and art. Steve Ditko, Joe Maneely, Dick Ayers, and Don Heck art. Currently tied for #23 on Overstreet's list of Top 50 Silver Age Comics.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: I Challenged... Groot! The Monster from Planet X!

Characters: Groot

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Steve Ditko

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: Steve Ditko cover inks credit fron Nick Caputo via the GCD Errors list, February 2009.

Reprints: Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #6 (November 1970)

STORY DETAILS

(5 Stories)

Title: I Challenged... Groot! The Monster from Planet X!

Characters: Groot (introduction, origin); Leslie Evans; Alice Evans

Synopsis: The monarch of planet X arrives on Earth in order to capture a town for experimental purposes back on his homeworld. The hero of our story defeats Groot with termites.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?

Pencils: Jack Kirby [as Kirby] (signed)

Inks: Dick Ayers [as Ayers] (signed)

Letters: Ray Holloway

Reprints: Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #19 (December 1976), | Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #6 (November 1970)

Notes: Groot next appears in Marvel Monsters: Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 in a flashback story, he then appeared in modern continuity in Nick Fury's Howling Commandos (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (January 2006) and eventually became a member of the second incarnation of the Guardians of the Galaxy. Story is pages 3-7, 10-11 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 7). Lettering credit from Monsters (2017 series) No. 1.

Title: Special Sale

Characters: Marvin Kale; Paula Kale

Synopsis: When a husband goes shopping he finds a new cleaning fluid that makes anything better than new, even him.

Pages: 2.000

Pencils: Joe Maneely

Inks: Joe Maneely

Letters: typeset

Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).

Title: I Found the Abominable Snowman!

Characters: Carl Hanson

Synopsis: A thug ventures to the Himalayas with the intention of capturing the Abominable Snowman for profit but is frustrated in his attempts of getting the locals to refer him to the creature he has in a photograph. They all tell him to discard the photograph as it is cursed. He plods through the mountains for weeks unable to locate any trace, until his mind is addled, and he drops the photograph which is now a reasonable resemblance of what he has become.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Steve Ditko

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Tomb of Darkness (Marvel, 1974 series) #19 (March 1976), | Chamber of Darkness (Marvel, 1969 series) #7 (October 1970)

Notes: Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. This is a retelling of "I Captured the Abominable Snowman!" drawn by Steve Ditko in Strange Worlds (Marvel, 1958 series) #1 (December 1958). Story is pages 12-14, 16-18 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5, last page of story not numbered).

Title: My Friend is...Not Quite Human!

Characters: Gustav; Napoleon Bonaparte

Synopsis: A misogynist wood-carver falls in love with his sculpture and has himself transformed into wood, but his refusal to pay a gypsy mystic leads to her making the wooden figure human out of spite.

Pages: 5.000

Pencils: Steve Ditko (signed)

Inks: Steve Ditko (signed)

Letters: Ray Holloway ?

Reprints: Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #6 (November 1970)

Notes: Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

Title: I Found the Hidden World!

Characters: Joey; Frankie

Synopsis: An ex-con investigates a professor's theories about a world inside television sets. He proves the theory when a gate opens accidentally, allowing the inhabitants to pull through an old enemy of his trying to get revenge.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?

Pencils: Don Heck

Inks: Don Heck

Letters: Ray Holloway ?

Reprints: Tower of Shadows (Marvel, 1969 series) #8 (November 1970)

Notes: Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4, last page of story not numbered).

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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
Universal	16	5	24	13	48	49	70	66	76	50	52	36	32	25	24	21	5	5	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	619
Qualified	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7
Signature Series	1	1	0	2	0	1	6	3	3	4	3	3	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	29
Restored	2	1	0	1	2	0	3	5	5	2	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	25
Total	20	7	24	16	50	50	79	77	85	56	56	42	34	25	26	21	5	5	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	680

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