Tales to Astonish #29 Bowling Green Pedigree (Marvel, 1962) CGC VF+ 8.5 White pages....

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Tales to Astonish #29 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1962

About Tales to Astonish #29

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

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COVER DETAILS

Title: When the Space Beasts Attack!

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Dick Ayers

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Letters: Artie Simek

STORY DETAILS

(5 Stories)

Title: When the Space Beasts Attack!!

Characters: Jeb

Synopsis: An alien armada lands on Earth with weapons that seem to disintegrate anything. Humanity is helpless before the aliens, until they demand a man vacate his farm in order to make way for a spaceport. The farmer gets so angry he lays the alien out with the butt of his rifle. The aliens disintegrate things like trucks and houses, but they don't fire at people. Once the farmer realizes this and spreads the word, the aliens retreat from the human's firearms.

Pages: 7.000

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

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Dick Ayers

Letters: Ray Holloway ?; Artie Simek (splash)

Reprints: Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #12 (August 1971)

Title: The Clock

Characters: Franz Ammergau; Gerda; Dr. Schmitt

Synopsis: An old clockmaker nearly dies from the cold, but is saved by the wooden figures adorning his clocks, which he has given parts of his own soul.

Pages: 2.000

Pencils: ? (illustration)

Inks: ? (illustration)

Letters: typeset

Notes: Text story with illustration.

Title: The Man Who Blew Up the Earth!

Characters: Elias Cragston

Synopsis: A jilted Quasimodo-like scientist devotes all his energy into producing a cobalt bomb which is so powerful that it can shatter the Earth. He wants to destroy all of mankind for jeering at his ugliness. He sneaks on board a rocket that is going into orbit and releases the bomb, but forgot about the lack of gravitational pull, and so the bomb just remains in place until it detonates against the side of the rocket. On Earth, the woman who laughed at him when he proposed marriage, gazes skyward at the explosion and exclaims "Isn't it the most beautiful sight you've ever seen?"

Pages: 6.000

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

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Dick Ayers

Letters: John Duffy

Notes: Apparently whoever wrote this story thought that the ending was uplifting. The last page includes an advertisement for Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series), also drawn by Kirby. Dick Ayers Inks credit from Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 Series) #3.

Title: What Happened to Harry?

Characters: Harry Brown; Albert Poole

Synopsis: A brilliant inventor's boss tries to steal his new time machine in order to take credit for it. He uses the time machine to travel to a different time, but ends up in the prehistoric period, where the electricity to power the time machine cannot be found.

Pages: 5.000

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

Pencils: Dick Ayers (signed)

Inks: Dick Ayers (signed)

Letters: Joe Letterese

Reprints: Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #20 (March 1973)

Notes: Though many details are changed, this story is a retelling of "Behold! I Am the Master of Time!" drawn by Steve Ditko in issue #14 (December 1960). Pencil credit from Tony Thomas on 13 August 2004. Original indexer credited Jack Kirby.

Title: The Last Laugh!

Characters: Happy Harper

Synopsis: A vicious practical joker gets his comeuppance in the afterlife.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Stan Lee (signed)

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

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

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #6 (February 1972)

Notes: The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series) also by Lee and Ditko.

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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	0	0	0	1	5	3	3	9	10	8	2	12	9	5	12	9	5	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	95
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	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Restored	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
Total	0	0	0	0	1	5	3	4	9	10	8	2	12	9	6	12	9	5	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	97

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