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Issue: Tales to Astonish #7
Publication Date: January 1960
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Issues: #7 of 101 Issues (131 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Zenith Publishing Corp.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in September 1959. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements (pages 2, 9, 15, 19, 25, 27, 33-36 of comic including inside front cover, inside back cover and back cover) ; pages of comic not numbered. All new stories in this issue are narrated in the first person.

Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
Disclose Reprinted In21
Disclose Reprinted From1
reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images2
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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I Spent Midnight with the Thing on Bald Mountain!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Anton George; Evil [not actually called "the Thing on Bald Mountain" in the story]
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Creatures Roam #2 published September 1970
as I Spent Midnight with the Monster on Bald Mountain! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #165 published January 1978
as I Spent Midnight with the Thing on Bald Mountain! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #199 published January 1984
as I Spent Midnight with the Thing on Bald Mountain! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
as Tales to Astonish #7 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #11 published ?
as I Spent Midnight with the Thing on Bald Mountain! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The statue on the cover looks nothing like the one in the story it supposedly illustrates.
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He Waits For Us in the Glacier!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Anuxa
First Line: You think you can destroy me with your puny weapons!
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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagStrange Tales Annual #1 published January 1962
as He Waits For Us in the Glacier! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWhere Creatures Roam #2 published September 1970
as He Waits for Us in the Glacier! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuper Giant #[nn] published January 1973
as He Waits for Us in the Glacier [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
as He Waits for Us in the Glacier! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: ?
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The Money Tree

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Billy Anderson; Tom Anderson; Amy Anderson
First Line: All was not as peaceful as it seemed in the Anderson household.
Synopsis: A young boy's father scoffs when his son tries to grow a money tree, but the world is astonished when he succeeds.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
as The Money Tree [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Unknown Worlds #39 published November 1955
was The Money Tree [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: G-977
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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We Met in the Swamp!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Lem Whipple
First Line: I'll never forget how it happened!
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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #5 published September 1970
as We Met in the Swamp! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
as We Met in the Swamp! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-473
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I Lived a Ghost Story!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Mr. Howard; John Lang
First Line: You say you don't believe in ghosts?
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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #5 published September 1970
as I Lived a Ghost Story! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #142 published January 1974
as I Lived a Ghost Story! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
as I Lived a Ghost Story! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: T-477
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I Saw the Other World!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: I'm still not sure how much of it was real, and how much was my imagination, but since...
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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFantasy Masterpieces #1 [U.S. Cover Price] published February 1966
as I Saw the Other World! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
as I Saw the Other World! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: T-478
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I Spent Midnight with the Thing on Bald Mountain!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Anton Gorge; Evil [never actually called "the Thing on Bald Mountain" in this story]; Good
First Line: I was at the peak of my success when I turned my back on it all and settled in an...
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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Creatures Roam #2 published September 1970
as I Spent Midnight with the Monster on Bald Mountain! [Story on Interior Page(s)]as "I Spent Midnight with the Monster on Bald Mountain"
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #199 published January 1984
as I Spent Midnight with the Thing on Bald Mountain! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMonster Menace #1 published December 1993
as I Spent Midnight With the Monster on Bald Mountain! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1 [Regular Edition] published January 2006
as I Spent Midnight With the Thing on Bald Mountain! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-460

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