Tales to Astonish #18

(April 1961)

Gorgilla Strikes Again! (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

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

Pencils

Jack Kirby (signed as KIRBY)

Inks

Dick Ayers (signed as Ayers)

Colors

Stan Goldberg

Letters

Artie Simek

Job Number

V-122

First Line of Dialogue or Text

In the October issue of Tales to Astonish we gave you the story of Gorgilla!

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 Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #57
• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #3
• in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #5 (March 1971) [part 1 (page count uncertain)]
• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #129 ([circa 1974 - 1975])
• in Vengeur (Arédit-Artima, 1972 series) #15 (3ème trimestre 1975) [N&B et remonté [B&W and reframed]]
• in Acção e Mistério - Edição Especial (Palirex, 1977 ? series) #3 - Os Monstros ([1977]) [black & white]
• 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)
• in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #1 (2017)

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).
Story is presented in two parts.

Part 2...Gorgilla Strikes Again! (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

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

Pencils

Jack Kirby (signed as KIRBY)

Inks

Dick Ayers (signed as Ayers)

Colors

Stan Goldberg

Letters

Artie Simek

Job Number

V-122

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Hungry, lonely, utterly confused, the giant Gorgilla desperately made another attempt to...

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Gorgilla; Scotty; Anne

Reprints

• in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #57
• in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #5 (March 1971) [part 2 (page count uncertain)]
• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #129 ([circa 1974 - 1975])
• 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)
• in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #1 (2017)

Keywords

Statue of Liberty

Indexer Notes

Story is presented in two parts.

The Stranger (Table of Contents: 3)

text story / 1.75 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Joe Maneely

Inks

Joe Maneely

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Job Number

G-76

First Line of Dialogue or Text

They say there are stranger things happening on this old Earth of ours than one is...

Genre

fantasy-supernatural

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: 4)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee ?

Pencils

Steve Ditko (signed as Ditko)

Inks

Steve Ditko (signed as Ditko)

Colors

Stan Goldberg

Letters

Artie Simek

Job Number

V-105

First Line of Dialogue or Text

A strange egg rests on the ground--shunned by both plant and animal life!

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 Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #80, #7 (1963 ?)
• in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #9 (June 1967)
• in Vengeur (Arédit-Artima, 1972 series) #15 (3ème trimestre 1975) [N&B [B&W]]
• in Fantomet (Semic, 1976 series) #2/1988 (uke 3 1988)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 ([March] 2008)
• in Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (2019)

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. Nick Caputo also suspects Lee's scripting as examined in his blog: http://nick-caputo.blogspot.com/2011/11/who-authored-ditko.html

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: 5)

statement of ownership / 0.25 page (report information)

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: 6)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee ?

Pencils

Steve Ditko (signed as Ditko)

Inks

Steve Ditko (signed as Ditko)

Colors

Stan Goldberg

Letters

Artie Simek

Job Number

V-111

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The time... a few years in the future!

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 Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #71
• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #1 (1964)
• in Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel, 1967 series) #31 (November 1971)
• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #128 ([circa 1974 - 1975])
• in Météor (Arédit-Artima, 1953 series) #199 (octobre 1975) [N&B [B&W]]
• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #196 ([circa 1983 - 1984])
• in Fantomet (Semic, 1976 series) #23/1985 (uke 45 1985)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 ([March] 2008)
• in Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (2019)

Indexer Notes

Formerly erroneously listed as a reprint from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #51. Possible Lee script per Nick Caputo's blog:

http://nick-caputo.blogspot.com/2011/11/who-authored-ditko.html