Tales to Astonish #8
March 1960 · 0.10 USD · 36 pages
On sale 1959-10-27
Rated Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Synopsis
A giant floating head appears over New York, claiming that it is the advance scout of an alien invasion, and ordering everyone to evacuate. People panic when the head destroys a warehouse to demonstrate its power, but a young boy reveals that the whole thing is a hoax by criminals hoping to loot the empty city.
Credits
- Script
- Stan Lee, Larry Lieber
- Plot
- Stan Lee
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby, Paul Reinman, Steve Ditko, Don Heck
- Inks
- Steve Ditko, Paul Reinman, Don Heck
- Colours
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek, Ray Holloway
- Editor
- Stan Lee
Notes
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. On-sale date from 1959 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
Reprinted from
Reprinted in
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- Fear #1
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- Monster Menace #3— monster called 'Monster on Bald Mountain' instead; monster originally called "The Thing from Bald Mountain"
- Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1
- Uncanny Tales #29
- Sinister Tales #4
- Mystic #24
- Misterios del Gato Negro #109
- Doomsday #8
- Climax Adventure Comic #20
- Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1
- Savage Tales #3
- Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby #1
- Acção e Mistério - Edição Especial #3— black & white
- Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus #1