Tales to Astonish #25 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1961

About Tales to Astonish #25

Jack Kirby cover. Kirby, Dick Ayers, and Don Heck art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: The Creature from Krogarr!

Characters: Joe Hanson; Creature from Krogarr

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Dick Ayers

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Creatures on the Loose (Marvel, 1971 series) #13 (September 1971)

STORY DETAILS

(5 Stories)

Title: I Was Captured by the Creature from Krogarr!

Characters: Joe Hanson; Clara Hanson; Creature from Krogarr

Synopsis: A dissolute human is targeted by an alien that can transport items through television sets, but he is saved by his failure to pay the electric bill.

Pages: 7.000

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

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Dick Ayers

Letters: Ray Holloway ?

Reprints: Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #17 (August 1976), | Creatures on the Loose (Marvel, 1971 series) #13 (September 1971)

Notes: Narrated in the first person.

Title: Behold Him! He Is the Martian!

Characters: "Danny Blake"; Agent X

Synopsis: A spy from Jupiter disguised as a human stows away on the first rocket from Earth to Mars. The pilot is a Martian spy disguised as Earthman Dan Blake whose mission is to radio back to Earth that a radiation belt with fatal effects makes attempting to reach Mars too dangerous so Earthmen will give up their attempts to reach Mars. The spy from Jupiter overcomes the Martian and radios Jupiter that travel to Mars is safe, and then radios the Martian's story back to Earth so as to discourage Earthlings from space flight.

Pages: 6.000

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

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Dick Ayers

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #15 (April 1976), | Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #8 (September 1971)

Notes: Narrated in the first person. Dick Ayers Inks credit from Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 Series) #3.

Title: The Gypsy's Revenge!

Characters: Monk Morgan

Synopsis: An American criminal robs an old gypsy man, ignoring his pleas and curses. When he returns to the United States he sees a fortune teller at a circus, and finds the tent suspended in the void, with the fortune teller revealed as the old man.

Pages: 5.000

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

Pencils: Don Heck

Inks: Don Heck

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #14 (December 1971)

Title: Where Lurks the Ghost!

Characters: Joe; Mike

Synopsis: A man spends the night in a haunted house with the house’s caretaker. He thinks that he didn’t see a ghost, but the caretaker was killed years ago.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Stan Lee (signed)

Pencils: Steve Ditko [as Ditko] (signed)

Inks: Steve Ditko [as Ditko] (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Chamber of Chills (Marvel, 1972 series) #23 (July 1976), | Creatures on the Loose (Marvel, 1971 series) #15 (January 1972)

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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	0	1	0	0	1	3	6	5	4	4	11	11	11	12	6	2	5	5	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	89
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
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	1	0	1	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	9
Total	0	1	0	0	1	3	6	5	7	4	11	13	12	12	7	5	5	5	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	100

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