Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish #1

Marvel Comics
United States
- Published
- 2006
- Page count
- 280
- Cover price
- 54.95 USD
- Colour
- Colour
- Format
- Comic series
- GCD
- www.comics.org/issue/277969
Credits
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original editor)
Cory Sedlmeier (collection editor)
Mark D. Beazley (associate editor)
Jerry Kalinowski (book designer)
Jeff Youngquist (senior editor special projects)
Issue contents

Featuring
- Genre
- Monster
Credits
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Colours
- Will Glass (color reconstruction)
? [as All Thumbs Creative] (color reconstruction) - Editing
- Stan Lee (original editor)
Cory Sedlmeier (collection editor)
Mark D. Beazley (associate editor)
Jerry Kalinowski (book designer)
Jeff Youngquist (senior editor special projects)
Reprint history
- Printed in
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #10.

Credits
- Letters
- typeset

Credits
- Script
- Stan Lee
- Letters
- typeset

Featuring
- Genre
- Monster
Credits
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Christopher Rule
- Colours
- Will Glass (color reconstruction)
? [as All Thumbs Creative] (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #1.

Featuring
- Genre
- Monster
- Code
- T-83
Credits
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Christopher Rule
- Colours
- Marie Javins (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #1.

Featuring
- Genre
- Occult
- Code
- T-84
Credits
- Art
- Steve Ditko
- Colours
- Marie Javins (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #1.

Featuring
- Code
- H-366
Credits
- Author
- Colours
- Marie Javins (color reconstruction)
- Letters
- typeset
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #1.

Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Code
- T-85
Credits
- Pencils
- Paul Reinman?
- Colours
- Marie Javins (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #1.

Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Code
- T-82
Credits
- Art
- Jack Davis
- Colours
- Marie Javins (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #1.

Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
Credits
- Art
- Steve Ditko
- Colours
- Will Glass (color reconstruction)
? [as All Thumbs Creative] (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #2.

Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Code
- T-138
Credits
- Art
- Don Heck
- Colours
- Michael Kelleher (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #2.

Featuring
- Code
- K-160
Credits
- Author
- Art
- Joe Maneely [as M.]
- Colours
- Michael Kelleher (color reconstruction)
- Letters
- typeset
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #2.

Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Code
- T-126
Credits
- Pencils
- Matt Baker
- Inks
- Vince Colletta?
- Colours
- Michael Kelleher (color reconstruction)
- Letters
- Matt Baker
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #2.

Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Code
- T-136
Credits
- Art
- John Buscema
- Colours
- Michael Kelleher (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #2.

Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Code
- T-141
Credits
- Art
- Bob Forgione?
- Colours
- Michael Kelleher (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #2.

Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Code
- T-139
Credits
- Art
- Joe Sinnott
- Colours
- Michael Kelleher (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #2.

Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
Credits
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Christopher Rule
- Colours
- Will Glass (color reconstruction)
? [as All Thumbs Creative] (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #3.

Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Code
- T-199
Credits
- Art
- Steve Ditko
- Colours
- Marie Javins (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #3.

Featuring
- Code
- K-71
Credits
- Author
- Colours
- Marie Javins (color reconstruction)
- Letters
- typeset
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #3.

Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Code
- T-205
Credits
- Art
- Joe Sinnott
- Colours
- Marie Javins (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #3.

Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Code
- T-212
Credits
- Colours
- Marie Javins (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #3.

Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Code
- T-213
Credits
- Art
- Paul Reinman
- Colours
- Marie Javins (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #3.

Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Code
- T-211
Credits
- Art
- Bob Forgione
- Colours
- Marie Javins (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #3.

Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
Credits
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Christopher Rule
- Colours
- Will Glass (color reconstruction)
? [as All Thumbs Creative] (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #4.

Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Code
- T-247
Credits
- Art
- Joe Sinnott
- Colours
- Wesley Wong (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #4.

Featuring
- Code
- G-750
Credits
- Author
- Colours
- Wesley Wong (color reconstruction)
- Letters
- typeset
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #4.

Featuring
- Genre
- Occult
- Code
- T-249
Credits
- Art
- Don Heck
- Colours
- Wesley Wong (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #4.

Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
Credits
- Colours
- Wesley Wong (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #4.

Featuring
- Genre
- Fantasy
- Code
- T-251
Credits
- Art
- Bob Forgione?
- Colours
- Wesley Wong (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #4.

Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Code
- T-248
Credits
- Art
- Steve Ditko
- Colours
- Wesley Wong (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #4.

Featuring
- Genre
- Occult
Credits
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Christopher Rule
- Colours
- Will Glass (color reconstruction)
? [as All Thumbs Creative] (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #5.

Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Code
- T-327
Credits
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Christopher Rule
- Colours
- Michael Kelleher (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #5.

Featuring
- Code
- F-889
Credits
- Colours
- Michael Kelleher (color reconstruction)
- Letters
- typeset
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #5.

Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Code
- T-324
Credits
- Art
- Joe Sinnott
- Colours
- Michael Kelleher (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #5.

Featuring
- Genre
- Occult
- Code
- T-330
Credits
- Art
- Don Heck
- Colours
- Michael Kelleher (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #5.

Featuring
- Genre
- Occult
- Code
- T-334
Credits
- Art
- Al Williamson
- Colours
- Michael Kelleher (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #5.

Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Code
- T-339
Credits
- Art
- Steve Ditko
- Colours
- Michael Kelleher (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #5.

Featuring
- Genre
- Monster
Credits
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Christopher Rule
- Colours
- Will Glass (color reconstruction)
? [as All Thumbs Creative] (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #6.

Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Code
- T-383
Credits
- Art
- Steve Ditko
- Colours
- Michael Kelleher (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #6.

Featuring
- Code
- J-215
Credits
- Author
- Colours
- Michael Kelleher (color reconstruction)
- Letters
- typeset
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #6.

Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Code
- T-377
Credits
- Art
- Joe Sinnott
- Colours
- Michael Kelleher (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #6.

Featuring
- Genre
- Fantasy
- Code
- T-385
Credits
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Christopher Rule
- Colours
- Michael Kelleher (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #6.

Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Code
- T-386
Credits
- Art
- Paul Reinman
- Colours
- Michael Kelleher (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #6.

Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Code
- T-384
Credits
- Art
- John Forte
- Colours
- Michael Kelleher (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #6

Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
Credits
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Steve Ditko
- Colours
- Will Glass (color reconstruction)
? [as All Thumbs Creative] (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #7.

Featuring
- Genre
- Monster
Credits
- Art
- Don Heck
- Colours
- Wesley Wong (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- First print
-
Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #7 (January 1960) — He Waits For Us in the Glacier!
- Also printed
-
Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #1 (1962) — He Waits For Us in the Glacier!
-
Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #2 (September 1970) — He Waits For Us in the Glacier!
-
Super Giant (Sport Magazine, 1973 series) ([January 1973?]) — He Waits for Us in the Glacier
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #7.

Featuring
- Code
- G-977
Credits
- Author
- Colours
- Wesley Wong (color reconstruction)
- Letters
- typeset
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #7.

Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Code
- T-473
Credits
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Steve Ditko
- Colours
- Wesley Wong (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #7.

Featuring
- Genre
- Occult
- Code
- T-477
Credits
- Art
- Paul Reinman
- Colours
- Wesley Wong (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #7.

Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Code
- T-478
Credits
- Art
- Dick Ayers
- Colours
- Wesley Wong (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #7.

Featuring
- Genre
- Occcult
- Code
- T-460
Credits
- Art
- Steve Ditko
- Colours
- Wesley Wong (color reconstruction)
Reprint history

Featuring
- Genre
- Occult
Credits
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Christopher Rule
- Colours
- Will Glass (color reconstruction)
? [as All Thumbs Creative] (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #8.

Featuring
- Genre
- Occult
- Code
- T-562
Credits
- Art
- Paul Reinman
- Colours
- Wesley Wong (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- First print
-
Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #8 (March 1960) — I Dared Defy the Floating Head!
- 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

Featuring
- Genre
- Occult
- Code
- T-565
- Characters
- Thing From Bald Mountain
Credits
- Art
- Steve Ditko
- Colours
- Wesley Wong (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #8 (March 1960)
Synopsis
The Thing from Bald Mountain 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
Sequel to Tales to Astonish #7's "I Spent Midnight With the Thing on Bald Mountain".

Featuring
- Code
- K-368
Credits
- Author
- Colours
- Wesley Wong (color reconstruction)
- Letters
- typeset
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #8.

Featuring
- Genre
- Occult
- Code
- T-559
Credits
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Steve Ditko
- Colours
- Wesley Wong (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- Based on
-
Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #8 (March 1960) — I – Am – The – Genie!
-
Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #1 (November 1970) — I-Am-the-Genie!
- Printed in
-
Doomsday (Sport Magazine, 1972 series) #8 ([April 1973?]) — I-Am-The-Genie!
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #8.

Featuring
- Genre
- Monster; occult
- Code
- T-563
Credits
- Art
- Don Heck
- Colours
- Wesley Wong (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- Also printed
-
Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #1 (November 1970) — Mummex---King of the Mummies!
-
Fear (Yaffa/Page, 1980? series) #2 ([1979?]) — Mummex---King of the Mummies!
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #8.
- From Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #8 (March 1959)

Featuring
- Genre
- Monster
Credits
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Christopher Rule
- Colours
- Will Glass (color reconstruction)
? [as All Thumbs Creative] (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #9.

Featuring
- Genre
- Occult
- Code
- T-637
Credits
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Colours
- Tom Mullin (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #9.

Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Code
- T-623
Credits
- Art
- Steve Ditko
- Colours
- Tom Mullin (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #9.

Featuring
- Genre
- Monster
- Code
- T-634
Credits
- Art
- Don Heck
- Colours
- Tom Mullin (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #9.

Featuring
- Code
- 9685
Credits
- Author
- Colours
- Tom Mullin (color reconstruction)
- Letters
- typeset
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #9.

Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Code
- T-635
Credits
- Art
- Doug Wildey
- Colours
- Tom Mullin (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #9.

Featuring
- Genre
- Monster
Credits
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Steve Ditko
- Colours
- Will Glass (color reconstruction)
? [as All Thumbs Creative] (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #10
Notes
Inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Errors list, February 2009. Original indexer had not credited an inker.

Featuring
- Genre
- Monster
- Code
- T-686
Credits
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Joe Sinnott
- Colours
- Tom Mullin (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #10.

Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Code
- C-486
Credits
- Author
- Colours
- Tom Mullin (color reconstruction)
- Letters
- typeset
Reprint history
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #10.

Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Code
- T-685
Credits
- Art
- Don Heck
- Colours
- Tom Mullin (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- First print
-
Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #10 (July 1960) — Only I Know When the World Will End!!!
- Also printed
-
Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #1 (November 1970) — Only I Know When the World Will End!!!
-
Climax Adventure Comic (Sport Magazine, 1968 series) #12 ([April 1973?]) — Only I Know When the World Will End!!!
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #10.

Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Code
- T-969
Credits
- Art
- Steve Ditko
- Colours
- Tom Mullin (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- First print
-
Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #10 (July 1960) — Something Lurks Inside!
- Also printed
-
Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #1 (November 1970) — Something Lurks Inside!
-
Climax Adventure Comic (Sport Magazine, 1968 series) #12 ([April 1973?]) — Something Lurks Inside!
-
Fear (Yaffa/Page, 1980? series) #2 ([1979?]) — Something Lurks Inside!
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #10.
- From Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #10 (July 1960)

Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Code
- T-684
Credits
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Christopher Rule
- Colours
- Tom Mullin (color reconstruction)
Reprint history
- First print
-
Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #10 (July 1960) — What Was the Strange Power of Simon Drudd!!?
- Also printed
-
Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #1 (November 1970) — What Was the Strange Power of Simon Drudd!!
-
Super Giant (Sport Magazine, 1973 series) ([January 1973?]) — What was the Strange Power of Simon Drudd
-
Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #196 (c1977) — What was the Strange Power of Simon Drudd!!
-
Crazy Magazine (Marvel, 1973 series) #76 (July 1981) — What Was the Strange Power of Simon Drudd?!! (Same artwork with new dialogue)
- From GCD
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #10.

Credits
- Author
- John Rhett Thomas
- Letters
- typeset
Synopsis
Short biographies of Ayers, Burgos, Buscema, Davis, Ditko, Heck, Kirby, Lee, Lieber, Reinman, Sinnott and Williamson.
Indicia
The indicia for this issue is not recorded. The identified publisher might be an associated or parent company, rather than the specific listed publisher.