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Issue Details

Issue #28
Published April 1962
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in January 1962 (January 9 according to Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website, January 16 according to Bob Bailey). This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.

Cover Details - "Back From the Dead!/The Dummy's Secret!/The Black Planet!/The Coming of Titan!"

Characters Captain of the Stone Men; Harry Dawes; Titan; Herman; Bruno Brugg
Genre monsters; science fiction
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Steve Ditko
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)

7 page story "Titan, the Amphibian from Atlantis!"

Characters John Cartwright; Titan
Synopsis John Cartwright, an auto executive, pretends to betray the human race to the invaders from Atlantis.
Genre monsters
Script Larry Lieber; Stan Lee (plot)
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Russ Heath
Notes Script and synopsis added by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.)
Reprinted in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #7 (February 1967); in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #12 (October 1975); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)

2 page text story "Special Sale"

Characters Marvin Kale; Paula Kale
Synopsis When a husband goes shopping he finds a new cleaning fluid that makes anything better than new, even him.
Genre occult
Pencils Joe Maneely
Inks Joe Maneely
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Strange Tales of the Unusual (Marvel, 1955 series) #5 (August 1956)

6 page story "Back From the Dead!"

Characters Harry Dawes; Captain of the Stone Men
Synopsis A fugitive hides on Easter Island and finds a scroll that awakens the stone heads. They turn out to be aliens, and take him with them as a zoo specimen.
Genre monsters
Script Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
Pencils Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes The last page includes an advertisement for Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Kirby. Script and synopsis added by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.)
Reprinted in Chamber of Chills (Marvel, 1972 series) #11 (July 1974); in Incroyable Hulk, L' (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #43 (February 1975) [as "Revenu d'entre les morts!", French translation]; in Tomb of Darkness (Marvel, 1974 series) #16 (September 1975); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)

5 page story "The Dummy"

Characters The Great Gregory; Herman
Synopsis Ventriloquist the Great Gregory and his wooden puppet Herman are both wooden aliens from Uranus!
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
Pencils Paul Reinman (signed)
Inks Joe Sinnott (uncredited)
Notes Script and synopsis added by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.)
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)

5 page story "The Secret of the Black Planet"

Characters Bruno Brugg
Synopsis A man escapes from a prison planet only to mistake a native creature on another world for a rocket ship and ends up devoured.
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee (signed)
Pencils Steve Ditko (signed)
Inks Steve Ditko (signed)
Notes The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko. Script added by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.)
Reprinted in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #4 (June 1974); in Incroyable Hulk, L' (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #35 (June 1974) [as "Le secret de la planète noire", French translation]; in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)