Tales to Astonish #38 (Marvel, 1962) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white pages....
Auction amount: $7,200.00
Sold: Nov 21, 2021
Tales to Astonish #38 Values
Publisher: Marvel, 1962
About Tales to Astonish #38
Featuring Ant-Man. First appearance of Egghead. Jack Kirby cover. Kirby, Don Heck, and Steve Ditko art.Why sell your comic books with Heritage Auctions?
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COVER DETAILS
Characters: Ant-Man [Henry Pym]; Egghead [Elihas Starr]
Pencils: Jack Kirby
Inks: Sol Brodsky
Colors: Stan Goldberg
Letters: Artie Simek
Notes: Cover inks credits from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (30 January 2009); the original indexer credited Dick Ayers. Letters credit from George Olshevsky.
Reprints: Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #3 (July 1966)
STORY DETAILS
Characters: Ant-Man [Henry Pym]; Egghead [Elihas Starr] (introduction, origin)
Synopsis: An scientist is hired by crooks to defeat Ant-Man. He tries to turn the ants against the hero and trap him, but the ants are loyal to Ant-Man and he foils Egghead's scheme.
Pages: 10.000
Script: Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
Pencils: Jack Kirby
Inks: Dick Ayers
Letters: Jon D'Agostino [as Johnny Dee]
Reprints: Giant-Size Avengers (Marvel, 1974 series) #4 (June 1975), | Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #3 (July 1966)
Notes: Egghead is the first villain to reappear and become a member of Ant-Man's rogues gallery (such as it was), becoming his arch-enemy; he next appears in issue #45 (July 1963).
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 |
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Universal |
1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 25 | 24 | 33 | 30 | 18 | 21 | 35 | 28 | 27 | 15 | 15 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 333 |
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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 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 |
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Restored |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 |
| Total | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 16 | 30 | 27 | 38 | 32 | 21 | 22 | 38 | 31 | 29 | 16 | 18 | 12 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 372 |
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