XOWComics.com

Content Items (68 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Penciller(s): Jack Kirby

Inker(s): Steve Ditko

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Thorr

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

[untitled]

Illustration on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Penciller(s): Steve Ditko

Inker(s): Steve Ditko

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Foreground of page 1 from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 Series) #16 story "A Monster Waits Outside!!".

Credits/Contents

Table of Contents on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Letterer(s): Typeset

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Introduction

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Michael Allred

Letterer(s): Typeset

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Tales to Astonish #11

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Jack Kirby

Inker(s): Dick Ayers

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Artie Simek

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Monstrom

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

I Found Monstrom! The Dweller in the Black Swamp!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Jack Kirby (signed)

Inker(s): Dick Ayers (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Monstrom; John; Billy; Sara

Synopsis: A vacationing family finds a monster in a swamp. The locals drive it back into the swamp with torches, but it was only a shipwrecked alien trying to get help.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Job Number: T-755

The Balloon

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Leroy; Zoop

Synopsis: A young boy meets a tiny space traveler from Skyville, a suburb of Mars, trapped in a balloon.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Job Number: K-267

Notes: Text story with illustration.

I Was Face-to-Face with the Forbidden Robot!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Don Heck

Inker(s): Don Heck

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Ralph; Anne

Synopsis: A man reactivates an illegal robot in order to gain recognition for stopping it. He destroys the robot, but realizes that robots are harmless, and instead of cashing in he confesses his plan, and advocates the legalization of robots.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Job Number: T-759

Notes: This story is set in 1967.

I Dared to Look Into the Beyond!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Jack Kirby

Inker(s): Steve Ditko

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Carl; Derek

Synopsis: A scientist builds a time machine to travel into the future. He believes that he has travelled to the past, demonstrating that the future does not yet exist, but in fact he saw a future in which Earth was abandoned.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: T-773

Notes: This is a retelling of "Journey into Nowhere!" drawn by Joe Sinnott, from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #69 (June 1959).

I Wore...The Mask of Drothor!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Steve Ditko (signed)

Inker(s): Steve Ditko (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Markas; Drothor (flashback)

Synopsis: An artist creates a mask based on the face of an ancient sorceror. He robs a mansion wearing this mask, but his face has transformed to matach it.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: T-745

Notes: This is a retelling of "Who Hides Beneath My Mask?" drawn by Dick Ayers in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #6 (November 1959).

Tales to Astonish #12

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Stan Lee

Penciller(s): Jack Kirby

Inker(s): Dick Ayers

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Artie Simek

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Gorgilla

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

I Discovered Gorgilla! The Monster of Midnight Mountain!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ?

Penciller(s): Jack Kirby

Inker(s): Steve Ditko

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Gorgilla (introduction); Scotty; Anne; Frank

Synopsis: An expedition finds the missing link between apes and humans in Borneo. It is initially hostile, but defends its fellow primates from a dinosaur.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Job Number: T-873

The Sorcerer

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Joe Maneely

Inker(s): Joe Maneely

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Tom Morton; Jack Morton; Ellen Morton; Johnny Morton

Synopsis: A man who has travelled the world and seen wonders performed by hermits in India returns home to find that his young nephew creates magic with only belief.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Job Number: H-203

Notes: Text story with illustration.

My Nightmare Has No End!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Stan Lee ?

Penciller(s): Don Heck

Inker(s): Don Heck

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Synopsis: A man meets an extradimensional being in his nightmares. The being tells him that the world he comes from is a paradise, but boring, and offers to switch places. The man agrees, but the traveller wakes up to find that he entered the dreams of a prisoner.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Job Number: [T-874]

Save Me! Save Me!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Paul Reinman (signed)

Inker(s): Paul Reinman (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Albert Poole

Synopsis: A scientist makes himself able to walk on water in order to steal secret military plans from a ship. But when he returns to the shore he finds that he now sinks on land.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: T-875

A Monster Waits Outside!!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Steve Ditko (signed)

Inker(s): Steve Ditko (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Maj. Ford

Synopsis: An astronaut is sent into orbit in a tiny sphere without communication. He sees a monster trying to claw its way in and panics, signalling ground control to bring him back. They think that it was a hallucination, but they find a broken claw on the spacecraft.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: T-876

Notes: Narrated in the second person.

Tales to Astonish #13

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Stan Lee

Penciller(s): Jack Kirby

Inker(s): Steve Ditko

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Artie Simek

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Groot

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

I Challenged... Groot! The Monster from Planet X!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Larry Lieber ?

Penciller(s): Jack Kirby (signed)

Inker(s): Dick Ayers (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Groot (introduction, origin); Leslie Evans; Alice Evans

Synopsis: The monarch of planet X arrives on Earth in order to capture a town for experimental purposes back on his homeworld. The hero of our story defeats Groot with termites.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Job Number: T-839

Special Sale

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Joe Maneely

Inker(s): Joe Maneely

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Marvin Kale; Paula Kale

Synopsis: When a husband goes shopping he finds a new cleaning fluid that makes anything better than new, even him.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Job Number: J-932

Notes: Text story with illustration.

I Found the Abominable Snowman!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Jack Kirby

Inker(s): Steve Ditko

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Carl Hanson

Synopsis: A thug ventures to the Himalayas with the intention of capturing the Abominable Snowman for profit but is frustrated in his attempts of getting the locals to refer him to the creature he has in a photograph. They all tell him to discard the photograph as it is cursed. He plods through the mountains for weeks unable to locate any trace, until his mind is addled, and he drops the photograph which is now a reasonable resemblance of what he has become.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Job Number: T-838

My Friend is...Not Quite Human!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Steve Ditko (signed)

Inker(s): Steve Ditko (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Gustav; Napoleon Bonaparte

Synopsis: A misogynist wood-carver falls in love with his sculpture and has himself transformed into wood, but his refusal to pay a gypsy mystic leads to her making the wooden figure human out of spite.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: [T-836]

I Found the Hidden World!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Don Heck

Inker(s): Don Heck

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Joey; Frankie

Synopsis: An ex-con investigates a professor's theories about a world inside television sets. He proves the theory when a gate opens accidentally, allowing the inhabitants to pull through an old enemy of his trying to get revenge.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: T-837

Tales to Astonish #14

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Stan Lee

Penciller(s): Jack Kirby

Inker(s): Steve Ditko

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Artie Simek

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Krang

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

I Created Krang!, Chapter One

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Jack Kirby (signed)

Inker(s): Dick Ayers (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Krang; Prof. Carter; Ludwig

Synopsis: A scientist's formula makes an ant giant and super-intelligent. The ant wants to conquer the world, but is killed by a giant ant-eater.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Job Number: T-901

[I Created Krang!], Chapter Two: Krang!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Jack Kirby (signed)

Inker(s): Dick Ayers (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Krang; Professor Carter; Ludwig

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Job Number: T-901

The Remedy Oil

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Marie Severin

Inker(s): Marie Severin

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Mrs. Gerrity; Tom Gerrity; Officer O'Malley; Logarithm

Synopsis: An old-fashioned shopkeeper unwittingly saves the life of a boy from Mechanica when her remedy oil lubricates the gears in his brain.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Job Number: J-984

Notes: Text story with illustrations.

Behold! I Am the Master of Time!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Steve Ditko (signed)

Inker(s): Steve Ditko (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Synopsis: In a black magic book, a thief finds instructions for creating a time machine which runs on electricity, but after robbing people in the 18th century and attempting to return to the 20th, he realizes he is stuck in the past because there is no electricity in the 18th century.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: T-889

The Thing in Human Form!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Don Heck

Inker(s): Don Heck

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Ogor; 'John Cummings' [Zeno]

Synopsis: A Martian is sent to Earth to kidnap a human scientist who has invented a weapon that Mars wants to use against Jupiter. The Martian is beaten by the scientist, who turns out to be a Jovian agent setting a trap to capture a live Martian.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Notes: Narrated in the third person.

Tales to Astonish #15

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Stan Lee

Penciller(s): Jack Kirby

Inker(s): Dick Ayers

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Artie Simek

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Blip

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

I Learned the Dread Secret of the Blip!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Jack Kirby (signed)

Inker(s): Dick Ayers (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Blip

Synopsis: A power drain and radar anomaly is traced to a creature made of electricity hiding in a cave. It claims to be a friendly visitor, but humans attack it and it flees into space.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Job Number: T-943

The Free Ride

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Chuck; Gus Farrell; Captain Zingle

Synopsis: A teenager working at an amusement park to help support his family is kind to a mysterious boy, and finds himself rewarded with a real trip to outer space.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Job Number: K-91

Notes: Text story with illustration.

I Dared Enter the Forbidden World!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Don Heck

Inker(s): Don Heck

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Derek; John; Monga; Uxmal; Antogg

Synopsis: A white game hunter finds the legendary elephant's graveyard, hoping to make a fortune in ivory. He discovers that elephants were introduced to Earth by Martians, who use the graveyard as a gathering point for the ivory, and won't let him leave.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Job Number: T-952

I Am the Invisible!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Steve Ditko (signed)

Inker(s): Steve Ditko (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Professor Karlos Konak; Zuka

Synopsis: A man threatens a witch unless she hands over two lenses which will make him invisible. She implores him not to try it, but relinquishes the lens. They can be reversed to make the invisible visible once again, but what the man did not expect is that when he becomes invisible to the outside world, the outside world in turn becomes invisible to him.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: T-951

I Defied the Curse of Tut-Ah-Anka!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Paul Reinman (signed)

Inker(s): Paul Reinman (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Synopsis: A criminal hides from the police in an old Egyptian tomb, ignoring the warning of a curse. He not only escapes the police, but has a run of luck that makes him rich and happy. Or so he thinks, as the gas in the tomb drove him mad and he is delusional in an Egyptian hospital.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: T-933

Tales to Astonish #16

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Stan Lee

Penciller(s): Jack Kirby

Inker(s): Steve Ditko

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Artie Simek

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Thorr

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Here Comes...Thorr the Unbelievable

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Jack Kirby (signed)

Inker(s): Dick Ayers (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Thorr [renamed "Thorg" in later reprints]; Linus; Helen

Synopsis: When Professor Linus mistakenly wakes up Thorr the Unbelievable he has to stop him from waking up his fellow warriors and taking over the world.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Job Number: V-15

The Bridge

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: espionage, occult

Character(s): Doctor Title; Douglas Jenks

Synopsis: A government agent retrieves a classified microfilm stolen to be given to enemy agents, and is helped by a magic bridge.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Job Number: J-707

Notes: Text story with illustration.

My Touch Means... Doom!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Don Heck

Inker(s): Don Heck

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Bill Howard; Martha Howard; Doctor Johnson

Synopsis: A teller plans to rob his bank to pay for his wife's surgery. The guard on duty doesn't carry a gun, but the thief experiences a terrifying vision where he is irradiated and made deadly to the touch while trying to escape. It turns out that the new guard is a "psychiatrist hypnotist" who gave him the vision.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Job Number: V-27

Notes: Narrated in the third person.

Save Me from the Mole Men!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Paul Reinman (signed)

Inker(s): Paul Reinman (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Crusher; Xoorr

Synopsis: A fighter who is cruel and likes to hurt his opponents finds out that there are some creatures stronger than him, and they like to hurt their opponents also.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: V-28

I Am the Victim of the Sorcerer!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Steve Ditko (signed)

Inker(s): Steve Ditko (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Joe

Synopsis: A bedraggled man wanders through a misty night, unsure of his identity. He is finally forced to return to his prison in a painting, where he has been trapped since betraying a sorceror.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: V-31

Tales to Astonish #17

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Penciller(s): Jack Kirby

Inker(s): Steve Ditko; Dick Ayers (alterations)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Artie Simek

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, science fiction

Character(s): Vandoom's Creature

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: A stat of the unaltered cover appeared as the cover to Where Creatures Roam # 4, with additional art by Marie Severin.

Vandoom, the Man Who Made a Creature!, Chapter 1

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Jack Kirby (signed)

Inker(s): Dick Ayers (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, science fiction

Character(s): Ludwig Vandoom; Vandoom's Creature

Synopsis: Vandoom, the owner of a Transylvanian wax museum, sets out to build a new monster in order to bring customers back to the museum. A lightning bolt brings the creature to life, but despite the fearful attacks of the villagers, it is not hostile and does not strike back. An invasion force of Martians lands and Vandoom convinces his creation to attack them. The wax figure defeats them, but the effort drains the life force out of it.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 13

Job Number: V-55

[Vandoom, the Man Who Made a Creature!], Chapter 2: The Mark of Vandoom

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Jack Kirby (signed)

Inker(s): Dick Ayers (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, science fiction

Character(s): Ludwig Vandoom; Vandoom's Creature

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Job Number: V-55

The Spirit

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Bobby Davis; Tom Davis; Alice Davis;

Synopsis: A young boy cleans out the attic of the old house his family moved into and meets a ghost from the Revolutionary War era.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Job Number: J-169

Notes: Text story with illustration.

Beware! Of the Ghastly Glass!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Steve Ditko (signed)

Inker(s): Steve Ditko (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Bruno

Synopsis: A man kills to gain possession of a magic crystal that grants him four wishes, but even his carefully worded wishes backfire, stranding him on the Moon.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: V-54

Notes: Narrated in the third person.

I Dared to Enter the Haunted Room!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Don Heck

Inker(s): Don Heck

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Mr. Smith

Synopsis: A scientist builds an ultimate bomb and plans to use it to hold the world hostage. He hides it in a room believed haunted, but when he goes to give his ultimatum to the UN he realizes that he is now a ghost.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: V-37

Tales to Astonish #18

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Penciller(s): Jack Kirby (signed)

Inker(s): Dick Ayers (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Artie Simek

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Gorgilla

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Gorgilla Strikes Again! [, Part 1]

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Jack Kirby (signed)

Inker(s): Dick Ayers (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): 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.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Job Number: V-122

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

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Jack Kirby (signed)

Inker(s): Dick Ayers (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Gorgilla; Scotty; Anne

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Job Number: V-122

The Stranger

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Joe Maneely

Inker(s): Joe Maneely

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

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

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1.75

Job Number: G-76

Notes: Text story with illustration.

Monsteroso

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Stan Lee ?

Penciller(s): Steve Ditko (signed)

Inker(s): Steve Ditko (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): 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.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: V-105

Robot on the Rampage!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Steve Ditko (signed)

Inker(s): Steve Ditko (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: 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.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: V-111

Tales to Astonish #19

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Stan Lee

Penciller(s): Jack Kirby (signed)

Inker(s): Dick Ayers (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Artie Simek

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Rommbu

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Rommbu! [, Part One]

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Jack Kirby

Inker(s): Dick Ayers

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Rommbu; Pete Hunter; John Hunter

Synopsis: An escaped geologist convicted of armed robbery leads an alien invader to an active volcano in order to sacrifice himself to destroy the alien and protect the planet.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Job Number: V-138

Notes: Rommbu next appears in Marvel Monsters: Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (December 2005).

Rommbu!, Part Two

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Jack Kirby (signed)

Inker(s): Dick Ayers (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Rommbu; Pete Hunter; John Hunter

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Job Number: V-138

The Tree

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Wally Hadley

Synopsis: When a family moves to a house in the country their son finds a gnarled little tree on their land that grants wishes.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Job Number: K-435

Notes: Text story with illustration.

The Thing With the Red Eyes

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Don Heck

Inker(s): Don Heck

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Vince Kane; Al Rocco

Synopsis: A gangster buys a pincushion doll that looks like his rival, and his reactions to pins stuck in it convince him that it works. He throws the doll out the window of a tall building, but his rival has altered the doll to look like him instead.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: V-139

Notes: Narrated in the second person.

The Terrible Trap!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Steve Ditko (signed)

Inker(s): Steve Ditko (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Bart Magor; Zomok

Synopsis: A hunter with contempt for the animals he captures is captured by giant aliens and placed in a maze from which he can see a rocketship he could use to pilot his way home if only he could figure out how to escape the maze.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: V-137

Tales to Astonish #20

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Stan Lee

Penciller(s): Jack Kirby

Inker(s): Jack Kirby ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Artie Simek

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): X

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

What Was "X" the Thing That Lived! [, Part 1]

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Jack Kirby (signed)

Inker(s): Dick Ayers (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Charles Bentley; X (introduction, origin)

Synopsis: A comic writer's monsters keep coming to life, until he creates one that can't be defeated. The monster is unstoppable physically, but he wills it out of existence.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: V-185

Notes: Narrated in the first person. X next appears in Alpha Flight (Marvel, 1997 series) #17 (December 1998).

[What Was "X" the Thing That Lived!], Part 2

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Jack Kirby [as K] (signed)

Inker(s): Dick Ayers [as A] (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Charles Bentley; X

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: V-185

[What Was "X" the Thing That Lived!], Part 3

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Jack Kirby [as K] (signed)

Inker(s): Dick Ayers [as A] (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Charles Bentley; X

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 3

Job Number: V-185

[What Was "X" the Thing That Lived!], Part 4

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Jack Kirby [as K] (signed)

Inker(s): Dick Ayers [as A] (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Charles Bentley; X

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: V-185

Odd Skills

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Joe Maneely

Inker(s): Joe Maneely

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Jim Branner; Bill Toney

Synopsis: The manager of an auto parts shop develops a sudden tolerance for "human variation" in parts, possibly linked to otherworldly strangers in the shop at night.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Job Number: J-216

Notes: Text story with illustration.

One-Way Journey!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Steve Ditko (signed)

Inker(s): Steve Ditko (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Adam Gree

Synopsis: A heartless tycoon spends great resources and eliminates jobs in order to build a machine that will transport him from the current moment to one forty years hence because his scientists have predicted an end to disease, war, and poverty in the year 2001, but he neglects to consider his body will age forty years in what seems to his mind merely an instant and, since the machine has only enough power to move forward the one time, he's lost most of the years of his life.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: V-184

Tales to Astonish #13 Page 1 Original Art

Illustration on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Jack Kirby (signed)

Inker(s): Dick Ayers (signed)

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Tales to Astonish #14 Page 6 Original Art

Illustration on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Jack Kirby

Inker(s): Dick Ayers

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Biographies

Text Article on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): John Rhett Thomas

Letterer(s): Typeset

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Notes: Biographies for Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Don Heck, Paul Reinman, Dick Ayers, Stan Lee, and Larry Lieber.