Tales to Astonish #7 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1960

About Tales to Astonish #7

Prototype issue (Toad Men). Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko cover and art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: I Spent Midnight with the Thing on Bald Mountain!

Characters: Anton George; Evil [not actually called "the Thing on Bald Mountain" in the story]

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Steve Ditko

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: The statue on the cover looks nothing like the one in the story it supposedly illustrates.

Reprints: Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #2 (September 1970)

STORY DETAILS

(6 Stories)

Title: He Waits For Us in the Glacier!

Characters: Anuxa

Synopsis: A nuclear submarine finds an alien hibernating in a glacier. He has been waiting thousands of years for humanity to wipe itself out so his race can claim the Earth, and now that nuclear weapons exist he thinks it won't be much longer.

Pages: 5.000

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

Pencils: Don Heck (signed)

Inks: Don Heck (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #2 (September 1970), | Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #1 (1962)

Notes: Story is pages 3-7 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

Title: The Money Tree

Characters: Billy Anderson; Tom Anderson; Amy Anderson

Synopsis: A young boy's father scoffs when his son tries to grow a money tree, but the world is astonished when he succeeds.

Pages: 2.000

Letters: typeset

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

Title: We Met in the Swamp!

Characters: Lem Whipple

Synopsis: A hermit claims to have helped a group of aliens in return for a chest of treasure. The chest is empty, but he realizes that air is precious to space travellers.

Pages: 5.000

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

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Steve Ditko

Letters: Ray Holloway ?

Reprints: Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #5 (September 1970)

Notes: Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 10-14 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

Title: I Lived a Ghost Story!

Characters: Mr. Howard; John Lang

Synopsis: A real estate agent tries to dissuade a man from buying a haunted house, but he insists on spending a night there. He is chased from the house by spirits and is scared off, which relieves the agent, since he is one of the ghosts, and wouldn't want to have to share their home.

Pages: 4.000

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

Pencils: Paul Reinman (signed)

Inks: Paul Reinman (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #5 (September 1970)

Notes: Story is pages 16-18, 20 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4).

Title: I Saw the Other World!

Synopsis: A man tries to convince a stranger that the camera he found takes pictures of another dimension. The stranger seems skeptical, when a bolt of lightning strikes and the stranger disappears, along with the man's pictures. While the man thinks he imagined it all, the stranger returns to his own dimension, where he cannot convince anyone of Earth's existance.

Pages: 4.000

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

Pencils: Dick Ayers (signed)

Inks: Dick Ayers (signed)

Letters: Dick Ayers

Reprints: Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #1 (February 1966)

Notes: Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 21-24 of comic (first page of story not numbered, then pages of story numbered 2 to 4).

Title: I Spent Midnight with the Thing on Bald Mountain!

Characters: Anton Gorge; Evil [never actually called "the Thing on Bald Mountain" in this story]; Good

Synopsis: A sculptor builds two statues, one representing good and the other, evil, but the evil statue comes to life and attacks him. The good statue saves him, and both of them fall into the swamp.

Pages: 5.000

Pencils: Steve Ditko (signed)

Inks: Steve Ditko (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #2 (September 1970)

Notes: Continues in the next issue. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. 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	1	0	1	2	2	2	13	9	8	9	10	10	5	7	4	2	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	91
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Signature Series	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	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6
Total	0	0	1	0	2	2	2	2	13	10	9	11	10	10	6	7	5	2	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	98

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