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Astonishing #60

Edition record · April 1957

Price history & market evidence

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GradeAmountEvidenceRecorded
4.0$65.84PANEL_PROFITS · grade_4_0_valueguide1957-04-01
6.0$115.86PANEL_PROFITS · grade_6_0_valueguide1957-04-01
8.0$749.00PANEL_PROFITS · grade_8_0_valueguide1957-04-01
9.8$576.00PANEL_PROFITS · grade_9_8_valueguide1957-04-01
RAW$55.14PANEL_PROFITS · ungraded_valueguide1957-04-01
8.5$155.00ComicBase · catalog referencecatalogDate not recorded

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The table includes 5 guide observations and 1 catalog references. These are reference values, not guaranteed sale proceeds.

Graded population

CGC records 19 graded copies for Astonishing #60 (1957). Population is the number recorded by this grading source, not the total print run or all surviving copies.

2.5 · 14.0 · 14.5 · 25.0 · 25.5 · 16.0 · 16.5 · 37.0 · 27.5 · 38.0 · 28.5 · 1

The House of Fear!

Rod accepts a hundred dollar bet to spend the night in a haunted house. He experiences several strange occurrences which could have resulted in injury but just figures his friends have rigged up gimmicks to scare him out and forfeit the hundred bucks. The following morning he confronts his friends down the road from where he stayed. Rod is confused because they were supposed to meet him in front of the house but he is shocked to learn that he spent the night in the wrong house.

| StoryTitle2 = The Monster in the Mist! | Writer2_1 = N/A | Penciler2_1 = Al Williamson | Inker2_1 = Ralph Mayo | Colorist2_1 = N/A | Letterer2_1 = N/A | Editor2_1 = Stan Lee

| Appearing2 = **Featured Characters:** * Professor Kerrin **Supporting Characters:** * Unidentified Ship ** Unnamed Captain ** Francisco ** Numerous unnamed crewmembers **Antagonists:** * Sea Serpent **Other Characters:** * Ferdinand Magellan * Christopher Columbus) **Races and Species:** * Seagulls * Humans) * Sea Serpents **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Earth ** Philippine Sea

**Vehicles:** * Victoria (ship)|Vittoria

| Synopsis2 = A ship briefly goes through a time warp to the year 1519 and return to the present day just in time to avoid being sunk by a sea monster.

| StoryTitle3 = The Trap | Writer3_1 = N/A | Penciler3_1 = Tony DiPreta | Inker3_1 = Tony DiPreta | Colorist3_1 = N/A | Letterer3_1 = N/A | Editor3_1 = Stan Lee

| Appearing3 =

| Synopsis3 = An embezzler hires a pilot to fake a crash landing to get an auditor out of the way for one week so that he can create fake general ledger entries but he's surprised when the boss reveals the auditor was a robot. The boss says the robot that disappeared checked the books and discovered no errors but this new one they've got now never makes an error.

| StoryTitle4 = Secret of the Golden Idol | Writer4_1 = Carl Wessler | Penciler4_1 = Syd Shores | Inker4_1 = Syd Shores | Colorist4_1 = N/A | Letterer4_1 = N/A | Editor4_1 = Stan Lee

| Appearing4 =

| Synopsis4 = Ira pays ten dollars to learn about an idol in a curio shop which is supposed to lead to fortune. Ira breaks in and steals the idol and notices that one eye glows green when he moves in a certain direction and the other eye glows red. Figuring that the idol is directing his movement with green for go and red for stop Ira follows it around even though he's been warned the idol is supposed to bring evil. Eventually the idol leads Ira into police headquarters from the sewer underground where he's arrested for its theft. He asks the officer about the fortune and is told that the idol itself has a valuable ruby as the red glowing eye.

| ReprintOf5 = Journey Into Unknown Worlds Vol 1 43 | ReprintOfStory5 = 2 | StoryTitle5 = The Boomerang Arm

| StoryTitle6 = Trapped by the Little Men! | Writer6_1 = N/A | Penciler6_1 = Pete Morisi | Inker6_1 = Pete Morisi | Colorist6_1 = N/A | Letterer6_1 = Morrie Kuramoto | Editor6_1 = Stan Lee

| Appearing6 = **Featured Characters:** * Unnamed Man **Supporting Characters:** * Unnamed Genealogist * Lilliputians ** Numerous unnamed Lilliputians

**Other Characters:** * Lemuel Gulliver) * Lemuel Gulliver) * Jonathan Swift **Races and Species:** * Humans) (flashback) * Lilliputians (flashback) **Realities:** * Earth-616 (flashback) **Locations:** * Earth (flashback) ** Europe (flashback) *** United Kingdom (flashback) **** England (flashback) ** Lilliput **Items:** * Gulliver's Travels (Book)

| Synopsis6 = When little men wake him from a sound sleep demanding that he come with them, a man realizes that his ancestor was Gulliver from "Gulliver's Travels".

| StoryTitle7 = When He Presses the Button! | Writer7_1 = N/A | Penciler7_1 = Ed Winiarski | Inker7_1 = Ed Winiarski | Colorist7_1 = N/A | Letterer7_1 = N/A | Editor7_1 = Stan Lee

| Appearing7 =

| Synopsis7 = An inventor of a time machine gets rid of an unwanted distraction by pressing a button and sending his uninvited visitor hours into the past where he receives instructions from his boss to drive out to the inventor's house, setting up the whole sequence in an infinite loop.

| Solicit =

| Notes = ===Publication Notes=== * "The Monster in the Mist!" is reprinted in Monsters Unleashed Vol 1 7. * "Trapped by the Little Men!" is reprinted in Chamber of Chills Vol 1 13.

| Trivia = | Recommended = | Links =

Creative credits

Writers: Carl Wessler, N/A, N/A, Carl Wessler, N/A, N/A

Interior art: John Forte, Al Williamson, Tony DiPreta, Syd Shores, Pete Morisi, Ed Winiarski

Color: N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A

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COMICBASE: comicbase:88547

GCD: 13473

PANEL PROFITS: 2434704

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