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Issue Details

Issue #6
Published November 1970
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.15 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "Where Groot Walks -- Death Follows!"

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)

7 page story "I Challenged...Groot! The Monster from Planet X!"

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)

5 page story "I Dared to Look Into the Beyond!"

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)

5 page story "My Friend Is...Not Quite Human!"

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)

4 page story "When the Saucer Strikes!"

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)