Tales to Astonish #18 (Atlas, 1961) CGC VF+ 8.5 White pages....
Auction amount: $2,400.00
Sold: Jan 12, 2025
Tales to Astonish #18 Values
Publisher: Marvel, 1961
About Tales to Astonish #18
Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko art. Gorgilla appearance.Why sell your comic books with Heritage Auctions?
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COVER DETAILS
Characters: Gorgilla
Pencils: Jack Kirby [as Kirby] (signed)
Inks: Dick Ayers [as Ayers] (signed)
Colors: Stan Goldberg
Letters: Artie Simek
Notes: Cover is taken from splash page of story.
STORY DETAILS
Characters: Gorgilla; Scotty; Anne
Synopsis: Gorgilla stows away on a ship to America to contact the human race, but is met with fear and violence in New York. He stumbles across some communist spies and stops an assassination, but is killed by the military out of fear.
Pages: 6.000
Script: Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Pencils: Jack Kirby [as Kirby] (signed)
Inks: Dick Ayers [as Ayers] (signed)
Letters: Artie Simek
Reprints: Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #5 (March 1971)
Notes: Narrated in the first person. Gorgilla last appeared in issue #12 (October 1960), and later appears in Marvel Universe (Marvel, 1998 series) and Defenders (Marvel, 2001 series) #1 (March 2001). Story is presented in two parts.
Data Courtesy of Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license
GoCollect Price Guide Report for this comic
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 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 13 | 9 | 9 | 13 | 6 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 108 |
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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 |
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Signature Series |
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 |
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Restored |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Total | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 13 | 9 | 10 | 13 | 6 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 111 |
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