Issue | #6 |
Published | November 1970 |
Frequency | bi-monthly |
Cover Price | 0.15 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Characters | Groot |
Genre | monsters |
Pencils | Jack Kirby; ? (retouches) |
Inks | Steve Ditko; ? (retouches) |
Letters | Artie Simek |
Notes | Slightly redrawn from original. Steve Ditko cover inks from Nick Caputo via the GCD Errors list, February 2009. |
Reprinted | from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #13 (November 1960) |
Characters | 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. |
Genre | monsters |
Script | Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ? |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Notes | Narrated in the first person. 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. |
Reprinted | from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #13 (November 1960) |
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. |
Genre | science fiction |
Script | Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ? |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Reprinted | from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #11 (September 1960) |
Characters | Gustav; First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte (cameo) |
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. |
Genre | horror |
Script | Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ? |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |
Notes | Narrated in the first person. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. |
Reprinted | from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #13 (November 1960) |
Synopsis | A airline pilot is nearly hit by a flying saucer and must bank suddenly to avoid it. All of the passengers but one were asleep, and the one who was awake says he didn't see the saucer. He lies because he's actually a Martian tourist and the saucer came to pick him up. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Paul Reinman |
Inks | Paul Reinman |
Notes | Narrated in the first person by the Martian. |
Reprinted | from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #71 (October 1959) |