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Series: Tales to Astonish

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Publisher: Marvel

Title: Tales to Astonish
Issue: 7
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: January 1960
Volume: 1

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Tales To Astonish 7
Owner: bomber-bob

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TALES TO ASTONISH #7
Owner: Pawwauw Comics

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Story Title: I Spent Midnight with the Thing on Bald Mountain! - cover
Pages:1
Genre:fantasy
Characters:Anton George; Evil [not actually called "the Thing on Bald Mountain" in the story]


Story Title: He Waits For Us in the Glacier! - comic story
Pages:5
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Anuxa
Synopsis:A nuclear submarine finds an alien hibernating in a glacier. He has been waiting thousands of years for humanity to wipe itself out so his race can claim the Earth, and now that nuclear weapons exist he thinks it won't be much longer.


Story Title: The Money Tree - text story
Pages:2
Letters:typeset
Genre:fantasy
Characters:Billy Anderson; Tom Anderson; Amy Anderson
Synopsis:A young boy's father scoffs when his son tries to grow a money tree, but the world is astonished when he succeeds.


Story Title: We Met in the Swamp! - comic story
Pages:5
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Lem Whipple
Synopsis:A hermit claims to have helped a group of aliens in return for a chest of treasure. The chest is empty, but he realizes that air is precious to space travellers.


Story Title: I Lived a Ghost Story! - comic story
Pages:4
Genre:fantasy; horror-suspense
Characters:Mr. Howard; John Lang
Synopsis:A real estate agent tries to dissuade a man from buying a haunted house, but he insists on spending a night there. He is chased from the house by spirits and is scared off, which relieves the agent, since he is one of the ghosts, and wouldn't want to have to share their home.


Story Title: I Saw the Other World! - comic story
Pages:4
Genre:science fiction
Synopsis:A man tries to convince a stranger that the camera he found takes pictures of another dimension. The stranger seems skeptical, when a bolt of lightning strikes and the stranger disappears, along with the man's pictures. While the man thinks he imagined it all, the stranger returns to his own dimension, where he cannot convince anyone of Earth's existance.


Story Title: I Spent Midnight with the Thing on Bald Mountain! - comic story
Pages:5
Genre:fantasy
Characters:Anton Gorge; Evil [never actually called "the Thing on Bald Mountain" in this story]; Good
Synopsis:A sculptor builds two statues, one representing good and the other, evil, but the evil statue comes to life and attacks him. The good statue saves him, and both of them fall into the swamp.


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