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Issue Details

Issue #30
Published June 1962
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in March 1962. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "The Haunted Roller Coaster!"

Characters Charlie Harris; Walter Burke
Genre occult
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (30 August 2006).
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)

7 page story "The Ghost Rode a Roller Coaster!"

Characters Charlie Harris; Walter Burke
Synopsis An amusement park owner hires an engineer to design frightening rides and works him to death. The engineer's ghost returns and takes the park owner on a deadly roller coaster ride.
Genre occult
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Reprinted in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #19 (October 1972); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)

2 page text story "Trouble Bubble"

Characters Jonathan Jr.; Nora; Jonathan Sr.; Mr. Bigger
Synopsis A boy discovers a formula to blow unbreakable bubbles and accidentally entraps his father's boss.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Joe Maneely
Inks Joe Maneely
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #49 (September 1956)

6 page story "The Creature from Krangro"

Characters Creature from Krangro
Synopsis An alien commander is sent to Earth to prove his courage by capturing three humans, but he accidentally takes statues of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Reprinted in Creatures on the Loose (Marvel, 1971 series) #19 (September 1972); in Mitico Thor, Il (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #121 (December 2, 1975) [as "La creatura di Krangro", Italian translation]; in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)

5 page story "The Man Who Couldn't Grow Old!"

Characters Ishmal
Synopsis An evil duke seeks the secret of eternal youth, and an old man in Egypt turns him into a mummy.
Genre occult
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)

5 page story "Inside the Fallout Shelter!"

Characters Mr. Clagg
Synopsis A selfish man builds a bomb shelter only for himself, but when a false alarm panics him he finds himself locked in for a month without a can opener to open his food.
Genre horror
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)