Tales to Astonish #7

(January 1960)

He Waits For Us in the Glacier! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Don Heck (signed)

Inks:

Don Heck (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

?

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

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.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #1 (1962)
• in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #2 (September 1970)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)

Indexer Notes

Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

The Money Tree (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Job Number:

G-977

Content Information

Genre:

occult

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.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #39 (November 1955)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration.

We Met in the Swamp! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Steve Ditko

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

T-473

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

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.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #5 (September 1970)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)

Indexer Notes

Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

I Lived a Ghost Story! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Paul Reinman (signed)

Inks:

Paul Reinman (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

T-477

Content Information

Genre:

occult

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.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #5 (September 1970)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
• in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #142 ([no date])

I Saw the Other World! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Dick Ayers (signed)

Inks:

Dick Ayers (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

T-478

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

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.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #1 (February 1966)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)

Indexer Notes

Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

I Spent Midnight with the Thing on Bald Mountain! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Steve Ditko (signed)

Inks:

Steve Ditko (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

T-460

Content Information

Genre:

monsters

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.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #199 ([no date - circa 1978])
• in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #2 (September 1970) [as "I Spent Midnight with the Monster on Bald Mountain"]
• in Monster Menace (Marvel, 1993 series) #1 (December 1993) [as "I Spent Midnight with the Monster on Bald Mountain"]
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)

Indexer Notes

Continues in the next issue. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.