Tales to Astonish #13

Dates

Cover date

November 1960

On sale

June 27, 1960

Pages

36

Editions and covers

• Original edition

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Creators

Stories

• I Challenged... Groot! The Monster from Planet X! · 7 pages

  The monarch of planet X arrives on Earth in order to capture a town for experimental purposes back on his homeworld. The hero defeats Groot with termites.

• Special Sale · 2 pages

  When a husband goes shopping he finds a new cleaning fluid that makes anything better than new, even him.

• I Found the Abominable Snowman! · 6 pages

  A thug ventures to the Himalayas with the intention of capturing the Abominable Snowman for profit but is frustrated in his attempts of getting the locals to refer him to the creature he has in a photograph. They all tell him to discard the photograph as it is cursed. He plods through the mountains for weeks unable to locate any trace, until his mind is addled, and he drops the photograph, which is now a reasonable resemblance of what he has become.

• My Friend Is... Not Quite Human! · 5 pages

  A misogynist woodcarver 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.

• I Found the Hidden World! · 5 pages

  An ex-con investigates a professor's theories about a world inside television sets. He proves the theory when a gate opens accidentally, allowing the inhabitants to pull through an old enemy of his trying to get revenge.

Characters

Reprinted in

Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (2006), Where Monsters Dwell (1970), Monsters Unleashed Prelude (2017), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Mystic (1960), Chamber of Darkness (1969), Tower of Shadows (1969), Weird Wonder Tales (1973), Tomb of Darkness (1974), Monster Masterworks (1989), Annihilation Classic (2008), Annihilation Classic (2009), Marvel 70th Anniversary (2009), Rocket Raccoon & Groot: The Complete Collection (2013), Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy Prelude (2014), Guardians of the Galaxy Solo Classic Omnibus (2015), King-Size Kirby (2015), True Believers: Kirby 100th - Groot (2017), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)