Tales to Astonish #30 White Mountain Pedigree (Marvel, 1962) CGC NM- 9.2 White pages....

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Tales to Astonish #30 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1962

About Tales to Astonish #30

Jack Kirby and Sol Brodsky cover and art. Kirby, Steve Ditko, and Don Heck art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: The Thing from the Hidden Swamp!; Return of the Gorilla-Man!

Characters: "Thing from the Hidden Swamp" (only referred to as such in title); Mary Brown; Gorilla-Man [Franz Radzic]

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Sol Brodsky

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: Cover inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (30 January 2009); the original indexer credited Dick Ayers.

STORY DETAILS

(5 Stories)

Title: The Return of the Gorilla-Man

Characters: Gorilla-Man [Franz Radzik]; Professor Stuyvesant

Synopsis: The Gorilla-Man escapes and tries to get himself transformed back into a human, but instead he is blasted into space in an experimental space capsule.

Pages: 7.000

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

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Dick Ayers

Letters: Ray Holloway ?

Reprints: Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #5 (November 1971)

Notes: Despite the end of the story in Tales to Astonish #28 seemingly indicating Gorilla-Man's mind regressing to that of a beast, in this issue Gorilla-Man's mental facility seems to be completely unimpaired. Job number speculative on the basis of other stories in this issue.

Title: The Remedy Oil

Characters: Mrs. Gerrity; Tom Gerrity; Officer O'Malley; Logarithm

Synopsis: An old-fashioned shopkeeper unwittingly saves the life of a boy from Mechanica when her remedy oil lubricates the gears in his brain.

Pages: 2.000

Pencils: Marie Severin

Inks: Marie Severin

Letters: typeset

Notes: Text story with illustrations.

Title: The Thing from the Hidden Swamp

Characters: Mary Brown; "The Thing from the Hidden Swamp" (only referred to as such in title)

Synopsis: A plain girl helps a stranded alien, and is made beautiful as a reward.

Pages: 6.000

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

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Dick Ayers

Letters: John Duffy

Reprints: Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #18 (August 1975), | Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #13 (October 1971)

Notes: The last page includes an advertisement for Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series), also drawn by Jack Kirby. Dick Ayers Inks credit from Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 Series) #3.

Title: What Was the Staggering Secret of the 13th Floor

Characters: Willy Sloane; Mr. Jordan

Synopsis: An oddly cheerful elevator operator is held at gunpoint with a passer-by by a spy planning to blow up the hotel. The elevator lets the spy off at the 13th floor, and while the passer-by is terrified, the elevator operator simply fades away, explaining that the bomb will never go off, since there is no 13th floor.

Pages: 5.000

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

Pencils: Don Heck (signed)

Inks: Don Heck (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Crypt of Shadows (Marvel, 1973 series) #18 (July 1975), | Creatures on the Loose (Marvel, 1971 series) #14 (November 1971)

Title: Quogg!

Characters: Quogg

Synopsis: A fugitive hides in an enclosure said to contain a horrible monster, and realizes too late that the monster appeared to be an ordinary hut.

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: Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #20 (August 1975), | Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #12 (November 1971)

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

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
Universal	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	2	7	5	7	16	13	10	15	13	7	6	6	1	0	0	1	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
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Total	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	2	7	5	7	16	14	10	15	13	7	7	6	1	0	0	1	0	0	115

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