Tales to Astonish #18

(April 1961)

Gorgilla Strikes Again! [, Part 1] (Table of Contents)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Kirby (signed)

Inks:

Dick Ayers (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

V-122

Content Information

Genre:

horror-suspense

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.

Reprints:

• in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #5 (March 1971) [part 1 (page count uncertain)]
• in Fantomet (Semic, 1976 series) #26/1987 (uke 51 1987) [part 1]
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 ([March] 2008)

Indexer 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).

Gorgilla Strikes Again!, Part 2 (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Kirby (signed)

Inks:

Dick Ayers (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

V-122

Content Information

Genre:

horror-suspense

Characters:

Gorgilla; Scotty; Anne

Reprints:

• in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #5 (March 1971) [part 2 (page count uncertain)]
• in Fantomet (Semic, 1976 series) #26/1987 (uke 51 1987) [part 2]
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 ([March] 2008)

The Stranger (Table of Contents)

text story / 1.75 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Joe Maneely

Inks:

Joe Maneely

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Job Number:

G-76

Content Information

Genre:

occult

Synopsis:

A painting of a Napoleonic victory parade is mysteriously linked to an eccentric inhabitant of modern Paris.

Reprints:

• from Astonishing (Marvel, 1951 series) #39 (June 1955)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 ([March] 2008)

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration. The first page of this story is printed between the pages of the lead story, while the second page is printed between the two back-up stories. The last page is split with the statement of ownership.

Monsteroso (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee ?

Pencils:

Steve Ditko (signed)

Inks:

Steve Ditko (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

V-105

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Monsteroso

Synopsis:

A creature hatches from an egg and imagines itself lord of all it surveys, but it is suddenly drowned, as it is only a microbe in a scientist's culture.

Reprints:

• in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #9 (June 1967)
• in Fantomet (Semic, 1976 series) #2/1988 (uke 3 1988)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 ([March] 2008)

Indexer Notes

This story is an altered retelling of "Earth Will Be Destroyed!" drawn by Steve Ditko in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #9 (May 1960). Stan Lee is given a speculative writing credit based on his authorship of another retelling of the same story.

Statement Required by the Act of August 24, 1912, as Amended by the Acts of March 3, 1933, July 2, 1946 and June 11, 1960 (74 Stat. 208) (Table of Contents)

statement of ownership / 0.25 page (report information)

Credits

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

Average circulation per issue October 1959–September 1960 (issues #8–16): 163,156. This shares the last page of "The Stranger".

Robot on the Rampage! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Steve Ditko (signed)

Inks:

Steve Ditko (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

V-111

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Synopsis:

A robot stationed at a lighthouse rebels against his human master and the man manages to lock the robot outside where the food supply is stashed, but thanks to the salty sea air, it rusts completely within a mere matter of hours rendering it harmless to carry out its threats.

Reprints:

• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #196 ([no date - circa 1977])
• in Fantomet (Semic, 1976 series) #23/1985 (5. november 1985) [original title: Robot on the Rampage!]
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 ([March] 2008)

Indexer Notes

Formerly erroneously listed as a reprint from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #51.