Tales to Astonish #40 Pacific Coast pedigree (Marvel, 1963) CGC NM+ 9.6 White pages....

Auction amount: $4,182.50

Sold: Jul 28, 2012

Tales to Astonish #40 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1963

About Tales to Astonish #40

Ant-Man cover by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers. Kirby, Don Heck, and Steve Ditko art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: The Day the Ant-Man Failed!

Characters: Ant-Man [Henry Pym]

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Jack Kirby ?

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: Possible Kirby inks per Nick Caputo, via the GCD Error List (30 January 2009) who notes he examined Kirby's inking in depth on his blog: http://nick-caputo.blogspot.com/2011/09/kirby-inking-kirby.html

Reprints: Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #5 (November 1966)

STORY DETAILS

(4 Stories)

Title: The Day That Ant-Man Failed!

Characters: Ant-Man [Henry Pym]; Hijacker [Howard Mitchell]

Synopsis: Ant-Man investigates a series of hijackings. He pretends to be sick to lure the hijacker into the open, and finds out that it's the owner of the armored car company.

Pages: 11.000

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

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Sol Brodsky

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Marvel's Greatest Comics (Marvel, 1969 series) #94 (November 1980), | Marvel's Greatest Comics (Marvel, 1969 series) #95 (December 1980), | Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #5 (November 1966)

Title: I Was Trapped in the Mad Universe!

Characters: Tommy Jordan; Phil Jordan; Ginger

Synopsis: A boy finds a device from the future that transports him to an alternate dimension with nearly identical versions of him and his family.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber [as L. D. Lieber] (script)

Pencils: Don Heck

Inks: Don Heck

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: Writer credit from Stéphane Petit, November 2007. Simek letters per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited John Duffy.

Title: Bird Talk

Characters: Tony Tipple; Skeets Mulligan; Toodles Murphy; bird census taker

Synopsis: A meeting with a strange man gives a boy an unusual way of getting a pet bird, talking to birds.

Pages: 2.000

Letters: typeset

Notes: Text story with illustration.

Title: The Worst Man on Earth!

Characters: Hogarr

Synopsis: A criminal in the year 2000 is sentenced to be exiled from humanity for his various crimes as the death penalty has been abolished. He mocks his accusers since he has prepared a micro-drill built into his finger that will get the door of his cell open eventually. When he does succeed in getting it open, he wishes he hadn't, as it turns out his cell had been placed in orbit around the planet.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Stan Lee (signed)

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

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

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: Writer credit from Stéphane Petit, November 2007. Simek letters per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited John Duffy.

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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	1	1	0	2	5	5	16	13	20	24	27	12	30	31	28	19	20	20	10	6	3	3	0	0	0	296
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	1	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	2	3	2	2	0	0	2	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	18
Total	1	1	0	2	5	6	17	14	21	24	30	16	33	34	29	20	23	21	12	7	3	3	0	0	0	322

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