Tales to Astonish #8

Marvel Comics
United States
- Published
- March 1960
- Page count
- 36
- Cover price
- 0.10 USD
- Colour
- Colour
- Format
- Comic series
- GCD
- www.comics.org/issue/15557
Credits
- Editing
- Stan Lee
Issue contents

Featuring
- Genre
- Monsters
- Characters
- Mummex [Raaka]
Credits
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Steve Ditko
Reprint history
- From GCD
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
Notes
Steve Ditko cover inks added as per Nick Caputo via the Error Tracker (January 2009)

Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Code
- T-562
- Characters
- Bruce; Hank Rogers; Mayor Robert F. Wagner, Jr. (cameo)
Credits
- Art
- Paul Reinman
Reprint history
- Also printed
-
Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #2 (September 1970) — I Dared Defy the Floating Head!
-
Super Giant (KG Murray, 1974 series) #11 ([September 1974?]) — I Dared Defy the Floating Head
-
Climax Adventure Comic (KG Murray, 1974 series) #20 ([May 1976?]) — I Dared Defy the Floating Head
-
Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) — I Dared Defy the Floating Head!
- From GCD
- in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #2 (September 1970)
in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
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.
Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

Featuring
- Genre
- Monsters
- Code
- T-565
- Characters
- Evil [only called "The Thing from Bald Mountain" in a caption]
Credits
- Art
- Steve Ditko
Reprint history
- From GCD
- in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #3 (November 1970) [monster called 'Monster on Bald Mountain' instead]
in Monster Menace (Marvel, 1993 series) #3 (February 1994) [monster called 'Monster on Bald Mountain' instead]
in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
Synopsis
The animated statue rises up from where it fell in the last story and decides to go to America so that it can conquer the world. When it arrives it hides in a building that is actually a rocket that is shot into space.
Notes
Story continued from last issue. Narrated in the third person. The creation of the creature recounted in this difference is different from that in the last (it was made of clay, not stone. This doesn't seem to just be a script problem, since the monster also looks different. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

Featuring
- Genre
- Occult
- Code
- K-368
- Characters
- Herbert; Mr. Blooper
Credits
- Author
- Letters
- typeset
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Spellbound (Marvel, 1952 series) #30 (October 1956)
Synopsis
A man insists on getting a specially made pair of glasses in a hurry, and finds that the optician has a magical corridor that leads back in time.
Notes
Text story with illustration.

Featuring
- Genre
- Occult
- Code
- T-559
- Characters
- Freddy
Credits
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Steve Ditko
Reprint history
- Also printed
-
Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #1 (November 1970) — I-Am-the-Genie!
-
Doomsday (Sport Magazine, 1972 series) #8 ([April 1973?]) — I-Am-The-Genie!
-
Fear (Yaffa/Page, 1980? series) #2 ([1979?]) — I-Am-the-Genie!
-
Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) — I-Am-The-Genie!
- From GCD
- in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #1 (November 1970)
in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) - From Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #8 (March 1960)
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #8.
Synopsis
A criminal finds a genie and uses it to wreak havoc, but when he goes too far he takes the genie’s place in the bottle.
Notes
Story continues in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #9. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

Featuring
- Genre
- Monsters
- Code
- T-563
- Characters
- Mummex [Raaka]; Paul Fleming; Sara
Credits
- Art
- Don Heck
Reprint history
- Also printed
-
Savage Tales (Sport Magazine, 1972 series) #3 ([February 1973?]) — Mummex---King of the Mummies
- From GCD
- in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #1 (November 1970)
in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
Synopsis
An archaeologist finds a giant mummy in the Egyptian desert. It rises and searches the tombs and museums of the area, examining several mummies before returning into the desert. The scientist follows it and sees the mummy enter a spaceship and lift-off. It was actually an explorer looking for missing space pilots, who wear mummy-like bandages as protective suits.
Notes
Narrated in the second person. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Notes
Distributed to newstands in October 1959. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. All new stories in this issue are narrated in the first person.
Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
Indicia
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