Tales to Astonish #20 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1961

About Tales to Astonish #20

Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers cover and art. Steve Ditko art.

Why sell your comic books with Heritage Auctions?

COVER DETAILS

Title: I Was Hunted By "X" the Thing That Lived!!

Characters: X

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Jack Kirby ?

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: Possible Kirby inks per Nick Caputo, August 2012. Nick examined Kirby's inking at his blog, as can be seen here: http://nick-caputo.blogspot.com/2011/09/kirby-inking-kirby.html Original indexer credited Dick Ayers.

Reprints: Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #2 (January 1971)

STORY DETAILS

(6 Stories)

Title: What Was "X" the Thing That Lived! [, Part 1]

Characters: Charles Bentley; X (introduction, origin)

Synopsis: A comic writer's monsters keep coming to life, until he creates one that can't be defeated. The monster is unstoppable physically, but he wills it out of existence.

Pages: 5.000

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

Pencils: Jack Kirby (signed)

Inks: Dick Ayers (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #2 (January 1971)

Notes: Narrated in the first person. X next appears in Alpha Flight (Marvel, 1997 series) #17 (December 1998). The unnamed editor of Tales to Astonish appears in the story.

Title: [What Was "X" the Thing That Lived!], Part 2

Characters: Charles Bentley; X

Pages: 5.000

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

Pencils: Jack Kirby [as K] (signed)

Inks: Dick Ayers [as A] (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #2 (January 1971)

Title: [What Was "X" the Thing That Lived!], Part 3

Characters: Charles Bentley; X

Pages: 3.000

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

Pencils: Jack Kirby [as K] (signed)

Inks: Dick Ayers [as A] (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #2 (January 1971)

Title: [What Was "X" the Thing That Lived!], Part 4

Characters: Charles Bentley; X

Pages: 5.000

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

Pencils: Jack Kirby [as K] (signed)

Inks: Dick Ayers [as A] (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #2 (January 1971)

Title: Odd Skills

Characters: Jim Branner; Bill Toney

Synopsis: The manager of an auto parts shop develops a sudden tolerance for "human variation" in parts, possibly linked to otherworldly strangers in the shop at night.

Pages: 2.000

Pencils: Joe Maneely

Inks: Joe Maneely

Letters: typeset

Notes: Text story with illustration.

Title: One-Way Journey!

Characters: Adam Gree

Synopsis: A heartless tycoon spends great resources and eliminates jobs in order to build a machine that will transport him from the current moment to one forty years hence because his scientists have predicted an end to disease, war, and poverty in the year 2001, but he neglects to consider his body will age forty years in what seems to his mind merely an instant and, since the machine has only enough power to move forward the one time, he's lost most of the years of his life.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Stan Lee ?

Pencils: Steve Ditko [as S. Ditko] (signed)

Inks: Steve Ditko [as S. Ditko] (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #2 (January 1971)

Notes: Nick Caputo suspects Stan Lee may have written this story based on an examination at his blog: http://nick-caputo.blogspot.com/2011/11/who-authored-ditko.html

Data Courtesy of Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license

GoCollect Price Guide Report for this comic

Exclusive to Heritage members: GoCollect price report for this certified comic.

CGC Census Report*

Grade	NG	PG	CVR	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	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	3	3	15	5	10	9	11	11	13	17	5	4	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	113
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	0	0	0
Signature Series	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	0	0	0
CGCxJSA	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	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6
Total	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	1	3	3	15	6	10	9	11	12	15	18	5	4	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	119

*All information listed is intended to be as accurate as possible, but errors are possible. No item may be returned or refused based on this information which is provided as a service to our customers. You should contact each pricing source directly to determine the accuracy of this information.

Disclaimer About Comic Book Data

Heritage Auctions provides this information as a service to our customers, and is not responsible for inaccurate data. Please refer to past sale prices, industry price guides, and our experts' auction estimates before you bid or buy.

Heritage Auctions, the world's largest collectibles auctioneer, is the undisputed leader in comic book and comic art sales. Our experts help fans and collectors understand what makes key issues valuable and as the best place to sell comics, we help consignors realize the highest possible prices for their prized collections.