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Issue: Tales to Astonish #13
Publication Date: November 1960
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Issues: #13 of 101 Issues (177 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Zenith Publishing Corp.
On Sale Date: 06/27/1960
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in June 1960. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. All new stories in this issue are narrated in the first person.
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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
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Disclose Images4
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Cover, Front
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I Challenged... Groot! The Monster from Planet X!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
Character(s): Groot
First Line: Behold! I am Groot, the invincible!
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagAnnihilation Classic #[nn] published January 2008
In Content Item: FlagMisterios del Gato Negro #132 published February 1961
as Yo reté a Groot, el monstruo del planeta X [Illustration on Cover, Front]recolored
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #6 [unnamed variant] published November 1970
as Where Groot Walks -- Death Follows! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #2 [Regular Edition] published March 2008
as Tales to Astonish #13 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel 70th Anniversary Collection #[nn] published July 2009
as I Challenged... Groot! The Monster from Planet X! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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I Challenged... Groot! The Monster from Planet X!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
Character(s): Groot (introduction, origin); Leslie Evans; Alice Evans
First Line: Fool -- none can withstand the mighty Groot!
Synopsis: The monarch of planet X arrives on Earth in order to capture a town for experimental purposes back on his homeworld. The hero defeats Groot with termites.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagAnnihilation Classic #[nn] published January 2008
In Issue: FlagRocket Raccoon & Groot: The Complete Collection #[nn] published January 2013
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #6 [unnamed variant] published November 1970
as I Challenged...Groot! The Monster from Planet X! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Wonder Tales #19 published December 1976
as I Challenged...Groot! The Monster from Planet X! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMonster Masterworks #[nn] published January 1989
as I Challenged...Groot! The Monster from Planet X! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #2 [Regular Edition] published March 2008
as I Challenged... Groot! The Monster from Planet X! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel 70th Anniversary Collection #[nn] published July 2009
as I Challenged... Groot! The Monster from Planet X! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: T-839
Disclose Notes: Groot next appears in Marvel Monsters: Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 in a flashback story, he then appeared in modern continuity in Nick Fury's Howling Commandos (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (January 2006) and eventually became a member of the second incarnation of the Guardians of the Galaxy.
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Special Sale

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, 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
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #2 [Regular Edition] published March 2008
as Special Sale [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales of the Unusual #5 published August 1956
was Special Sale [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: J-932
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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I Found the Abominable Snowman!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Carl Hanson
First Line: Editor's note: for centuries men have tried to find the unknown creature...
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
In Content Item: FlagChamber of Darkness #7 [unnamed variant] published October 1970
as I Found the Abominable Snowman! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTomb of Darkness #19 [unnamed variant] published March 1976
as I Found the Abominable Snowman! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagInferno #4 published June 1997
as Ho scoperto l'abominevole Uomo delle Nevi [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #2 [Regular Edition] published March 2008
as I Found the Abominable Snowman! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: T-838
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My Friend Is...Not Quite Human!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Gustav; Napoleon Bonaparte
First Line: It is the year 1799, and I am hard at work in my little cottage...
Synopsis: A misogynist woodcarver 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
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #6 [unnamed variant] published November 1970
as My Friend Is...Not Quite Human! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #2 [Regular Edition] published March 2008
as My Friend is...Not Quite Human! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: [T-836]
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I Found the Hidden World!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Joey; Frankie
First Line: Aieeee Wha -- what happened -- oh, I must have screamed in my sleep!
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
In Content Item: FlagTower of Shadows #8 published November 1970
as I Found the Hidden World! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #2 [Regular Edition] published March 2008
as I Found the Hidden World! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-837

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