Tales to Astonish #56 Pacific Coast pedigree (Marvel, 1964) CGC NM/MT 9.8 White pages....
Auction amount: $3,107.00
Sold: Jul 28, 2012
Tales to Astonish #56 Values
Publisher: Marvel, 1964
About Tales to Astonish #56
Giant-Man and the Wasp battle the Magician (his first appearance). Jack Kirby cover. Dick Ayers art.Why sell your comic books with Heritage Auctions?
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COVER DETAILS
Characters: Giant-Man [Henry Pym]; Wasp [Janet van Dyne]; Magician [Lee Guardineer]
Pencils: Jack Kirby
Inks: Chic Stone ?; Sol Brodsky ?
Colors: Stan Goldberg
Letters: Artie Simek
Notes: Chic Stone inks per Bob Bailey, 2005-01-31, (Per Sandell ed.). Nick Caputo disagrees and believes the inking to be by Sol Brodsky.
Reprints: Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #11 (November 1967)
STORY DETAILS
Characters: Giant-Man [Henry Pym]; Wasp [Janet van Dyne]; Magician [Lee Guardineer] (introduction); Sterling Stuyvesant
Synopsis: Janet goes to a party in the hope of making Hank jealous. There, she is captured by the Magician. Giant-Man hosts a fake party aboard a yacht to lure the Magician into a trap, allowing him to save Jan and capture the Magician with her help.
Pages: 18.000
Script: Stan Lee
Pencils: Dick Ayers
Inks: Dick Ayers
Letters: Sam Rosen
Notes: The Magician next appears in issue #58 (August 1964).
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 |
0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 17 | 32 | 26 | 22 | 21 | 27 | 26 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 246 |
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Qualified |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
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Signature Series |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
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Restored |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Total | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 10 | 12 | 22 | 36 | 26 | 24 | 24 | 29 | 26 | 12 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 274 |
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