Tales to Astonish #6 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1959

About Tales to Astonish #6

Stone Men appearance. Jack Kirby and Christopher Rule cover. Kirby, Steve Ditko, Joe Sinnott, Paul Reinman, and John Forte art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: I Saw the Invasion of the Stone Men!

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: George Klein ?; ?

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: George Klein Inks credit per Atlas Tales. Previous indexer credited Christopher Rule. Michael J. Vassallo and Nick Caputo are not 100% certain of the Klein inking credit, suspecting it may be an unknown inker.

STORY DETAILS

(6 Stories)

Title: I Saw the Invasion of the Stone Men

Characters: Prof. George Ailen

Synopsis: Stone men rise out of the ground and set off a panic. A geologist realizes that the creatures are just explorers and will return underground on their own.

Pages: 5.000

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

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

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #1 (1962)

Notes: Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 3-7 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

Title: Patent Pending

Characters: inventor; Joe; Timothy Braun

Synopsis: A teenager is inventing a mechanical potato peeler, but a supernatural figure stops him to preserve the culture of hand-peeling potatoes in kitchens.

Pages: 2.000

Letters: typeset

Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).

Title: I Was the Man Under Glass!

Characters: Darius Cartwright; John Cartwright

Synopsis: An arrogant businessman becomes governor of an alien planet and lives in an oxygen-filled dome, forbidding the natives from entering. When his oxygen pump breaks he has so thoroughly frightened them that none will come to his aid, and he slowly runs out of air.

Pages: 5.000

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

Pencils: Joe Sinnott (signed)

Inks: Joe Sinnott (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: Story is pages 10-14 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

Title: I Laughed at the Great God, Pan!

Characters: Norman; Diane; Pan

Synopsis: A man with his date at the museum laughs at the painting of Pan. The museum guard chastises him for it, and he leaves. Later, his date sees him on the street and asks him why his hair has fallen out. He doesn't tell her that, as they were leaving the museum, he looked back at the guard walking down the hall and saw that the man had cloven hooves.

Pages: 4.000

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

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Christopher Rule

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 16-18, 20 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4).

Title: I Became a...Human Bomb!

Synopsis: A criminal sneaks aboard an experimental nuclear missile planning to hijack it and sell it to the Soviets, but after the rocket launches he discovers that it lacks internal control.

Pages: 4.000

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

Pencils: Paul Reinman (signed)

Inks: Paul Reinman (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #1 (1962)

Notes: Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 21-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4).

Title: I Was a Prisoner of the Living Statues!

Characters: Kisumu; Ngami

Synopsis: Alien invaders disguise themselves as wooden statues from an African village to infiltrate the homes of the wealthy and powerful, but their plans fail because the coats of varnish added by the exporters immobilize them.

Pages: 5.000

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

Pencils: John Forte (signed)

Inks: John Forte (signed)

Letters: Ray Holloway ?

Notes: Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

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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	2	4	3	2	8	9	13	13	10	10	4	8	4	4	6	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	102
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	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7
Total	0	0	0	2	4	3	3	9	11	14	13	10	10	6	8	4	5	6	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	110

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