Tales to Astonish #96 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1967

About Tales to Astonish #96

Featuring the Hulk and the Sub-Mariner. High Evolutionary and Plunderer appearances. Skull cover by Dan Adkins. Bill Everett, Marie Severin, Vince Colletta, and Herb Trimpe art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: Somewhere Stands... Skull Island!

Characters: Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Plunderer [Edgar Plunder]

Pencils: Dan Adkins

Inks: Dan Adkins

Colors: Stan Goldberg ?

Letters: Artie Simek ?

STORY DETAILS

(3 Stories)

Title: Somewhere Stands... Skull Island!

Characters: Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Lady Dorma; Grand Vizier Vashti; Princess Fen (flashback, Namor's mother); Plunderer [Edgar Plunder] (villain)

Synopsis: Before conducting war against the surface-dwellers, Namor visits the Savage Land beneath the continent of Antarctica. Dorma, against orders, follows behind him. Meanwhile the Plunderer, unknown to the Atlanteans, has constructed a base on Skull Island and as Namor and Dorma approach, fires on them. Namor is captured while Dorma flees back to Atlantis.

Pages: 12.000

Script: Raymond Marais

Pencils: Bill Everett; Werner Roth (see note)

Inks: Vince Colletta

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel, 1967 series) #51 (July 1975)

Notes: According to Nick Caputo, Roth drew all of page 10 and "may have also done some touch ups on the faces of the Plunderer and his accomplice on page 6, panel 3; page 9, panels 3 and 4; possibly the last panel on page 11 and the first panel on page 12." (R. Schenk, May 2009, via the Error Tracker)

Title: What Have I Created?

Characters: Hulk [Bruce Banner]; High Evolutionary; New Men (villains)

Synopsis: With Banner trapped and about to be evolved by the High Evolutionary, the New Men attack and stop the experiment. Banner becomes the Hulk and fights the New Men. The Evolutionary decides that the only way to stop his former creations is to do to himself what he planned on doing to Banner--evolving himself a thousand years into humanity's future. He does so and becomes a transcendent being who devolves his New Men back into animals before melting into cosmic consciousness. The Hulk is left alone on Wundagore II, the only sentient being on a lonely planet.

Pages: 10.000

Script: Stan Lee

Pencils: Marie Severin

Inks: Herb Trimpe

Letters: Al Kurzrok

Reprints: Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel, 1967 series) #51 (July 1975)

Notes: See notes for next issue which picks up a new adventure on Earth with no explanation as to how Hulk got there.

Characters: Hulk [Bruce Banner]

Pages: 1.000

Pencils: Marie Severin

Inks: Frank Giacoia

Letters: typeset

Notes: Letters from Charles Meyerson, Scott Campbell, and Alan Siegel. Includes an image from an earlier issue in advertisement for The Merry Marvel Marching Society membership kit.

Data Courtesy of Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	NG	PG	CVR	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	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	8	6	6	4	6	10	22	23	29	24	38	34	48	18	6	0	0	288
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	0	0	0
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6
CGCxJSA	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	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	7
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	4	8	7	7	4	6	11	25	23	31	24	40	36	48	18	6	0	0	301

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