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Series
Tales to Astonish 26
Atlas Tales
- Cover Date
- December 1961
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Indicia Publisher
- Vista Publications, Inc.
- Cover Titles
- The Four Armed Things!
He Walked Through Walls! - Cover Credits
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Jack Kirby pencils unsigned
Dick Ayers inks attributed
- Contributions
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Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Cover Creator Credit
Current market pricing for Tales to Astonish #26 shows a latest graded sale of CGC 8.5 sold for $456 on November 3rd, 2019.
Graded price ranges include CGC 6.0 $204 (1 comp); CGC 7.5 $372 (1 comp).
Pricing data last updated July 17th, 2026.
Stories
Look Out!! Here Come The...Four-Armed Men!
Doc V.: Creator Credit
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
The Weatherman
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
He Walked Through Walls!
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Run, Rocky, Run!
the stikman: Creator Credit
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
the stikman: Story Scans (2)
Dream World!
the stikman: Creator Credit
Nick Caputo: Creator Credit
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
the stikman: Story Scans (5)
The coloring, which appears to be from Ditko color guides, is almost completely expressionistic. We have a variety of blues, some yellow variations, and even a red; but no "flesh-color" symbolizing pink dots on the faces or hands after the first two panels on page 2.
This story is an homage to Winsor McCay's fantastic comic strip, Little Nemo in Slumberland. McCay's influence on Ditko can also be seen in his philosophical work such as Avenging World.
At the bottom of the splash page Stan Lee continues the conversation begun in Tales to Astonish 21 V-193 It Happened on the Silent Screen:
EDITOR'S NOTE: REMEMBER OUR SENSATIONAL TALE "THE SILENT SCREEN" A FEW ISSUES AGO? WE STILL GET LETTERS ASKING FOR ANOTHER SUCH UNUSUAL TALE...
AND NOW, IN RESPONSE TO ALL YOUR REQUESTS' HERE IT IS, BY THE SAME TALENTED ARTIST-WRITER TEAM WHO BROUGHT YOU THE NOW-CLASSIC "SILENT SCREEN"!
Stan gives himself credit for scripting the 5-months-past "Silent Screen" and gives artist, Ditko top billing in:"the...talented artist-writer team..."
At the bottom of page 5: LIKE THIS TYPE OF STORY? THEN DON'T MISS "AMAZING ADULT FANTASY" COMICS ON SALE NOW!
The first issue of "AMAZING ADULT FANTASY" hit the stands about 3 weeks later.
-the stikman.
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Issue Overview
Tales to Astonish #26 was published by Vista Publications, Inc. in December 1961. It is part of the Tales to Astonish series, which ran from January 1959 to August 1962.
Cover credits include Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers.
Atlas Tales indexes 5 stories for this issue, including "Look Out!! Here Come The...Four-Armed Men!." Indexed story credits include Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers, among others.