Tales to Astonish #1
January 1959 · 0.10 USD · 36 pages
On sale 1958-09-02
Rated Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Synopsis
An expedition in remote waters finds a missing scientist who has used serums to create giant turtles, one the size of a house, the other the size of an island.
Credits
- Script
- Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Larry Lieber
- Plot
- Stan Lee
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Don Heck, Carl Burgos, Jack Davis
- Inks
- Christopher Rule, Steve Ditko, Don Heck, Jack Davis
- Colours
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek, Ray Holloway
- Editor
- Stan Lee
Notes
On-sale date from Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 12, Part 2, No. 2, Periodicals, July-December 1958, p. 368. 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 are narrated in the first person.
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- Creepy Worlds #192
- Secrets of the Unknown #27
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