Tales of Suspense (1959) comic books 1962

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Last 10-cent issue. Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by George Klein. "The Death of Monstrollo," pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A movie producer's next film is a sci-fi picture featuring a giant robotic monster; Bad press convinces him to abandon the project but just as he's about to disassemble the robot, an alien invasion fleet lands; He sends the robot lumbering towards them and they ineffectively fire their nerve weapons at it. "The Heat's On," art by Don Heck; When a young boy builds a fan to help his family get through a heat wave it brings down the flying saucer that caused the heat. "The Unseen," pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by George Klein; A scientist is contacted by a communist agent who offers him a million dollars for research into an invisibility ray; The man's greed makes him accept treason and he succeeds, but he finds that after testing the ray upon himself, he has become intangible as well and has no way of turning on the switch of the antidote ray. "The Hidden Face," script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; An alien bigot attempts to preach hate by hiding his face under a hood; When he assaults one of the people he is defaming he flees the police to escape capture. "The Enchanted Paint," art by Paul Reinman; A greedy prince marries a dowager queen; He tries to use her sleepwalking to cause her death, but the portrait of her husband calls out to warn her, and ghostly hands push the prince to his death. 36 pgs., full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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First 12-cent issue. Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by George Klein. "It Crawls by Night!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by George Klein; A farmer develops a plant that grows so quickly at night that it becomes a menace to all objects around it by crushing and tossing them; The farmer feels he is done for as he runs to hide behind a meteorite that fell from the sky earlier in the day, but as the plant touches the rock, it begins to shrivel and die. "Music Master" text story. "Never Trust a Martian," art by Don Heck; Communist spies plan to fake a Martian invasion, but they are abducted and killed by the real Martians, afraid that their cover will be blown. "Seven Long Years," art by Paul Reinman; A racketeer breaks a mirror and gives up crime for seven years, only to break another mirror in his first robbery and be caught and sentenced to seven years. "The Face!", script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; A thief steals a ruby from an Indian Lama's temple and finds himself cursed to see the Lama's face everywhere he goes; He tries to get out of the country by train, but still finds himself pursued by the face. 36 pgs., full color. $0.12. Cover price $0.12.

Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "Oog Lives Again!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; An alien trapped in ice is freed and mocks the fearful humans as it waits to be rescued - "Invade you? You have nothing we want! We should quarantine you!" "From Outer Space" text story. "On the Trail of the Witch!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A witch is fearful of being pursued by a witch-hunter, but it turns out her fears are groundless as he is also a witch. "John Doe," pencils by Paul Reinman, inks by Joe Sinnott; An inventor creates a humanoid robot and treats it like a close friend; When the robot sacrifices itself to save him from a bear, his friends realize that the inventor is also a robot. "His Name Was... Merlin!", script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; An untalented magician who takes the name Merlin is visited by the spirit of the real Merlin in the form of a derelict and offers to teach him some tricks; When the man learns Merlin's last trick of completely disappearing, he stiffs Merlin his fee. 36 pgs., full color. $0.12. Cover price $0.12.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko. "Titan, the Amphibian from Atlantis!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Russ Heath; John Cartwright, an auto executive, pretends to betray the human race to the invaders from Atlantis. "Special Sale" text story, art by Joe Maneely. "Back From the Dead!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; 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. "The Dummy," pencils by Paul Reinman, inks by Joe Sinnott; Ventriloquist the Great Gregory and his wooden puppet Herman are both wooden aliens from Uranus! "The Secret of the Black Planet," script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; A man escapes from a prison planet only to mistake a native creature on another world for a rocket ship and ends up about to be devoured. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko. "The Martian Who Stole a City!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A Martian steals a city piece by piece, until a young boy figures out that it is vulnerable to light. "Mystery Mansion" text story. "Nothing Can Save Us!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; Trapped on a small planet a group of space pilots almost kill a space dragon out of fear until they realize that it protects the planet from runaway asteroids. "It Was Only a Simple Barber Shop... or Was It??!", script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; Muggsy Bogar is a crook on the run. A mysterious figure instructs him to hide in a nearby barbershop; He goes in and the barber hides him forever. "The Thing in the Locked Room!", art by Don Heck; Prince Zemu takes a strange painting as part of his booty, only to discover it saps his life and youth from him. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "The Ghost Rode a Roller Coaster!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; 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. "Trouble Bubble" text story, art by Joe Maneely. "The Creature from Krangro," pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; 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. "The Man Who Couldn't Grow Old!", art by Don Heck; An evil duke seeks the secret of eternal youth, and an old man in Egypt turns him into a mummy. "Inside the Fallout Shelter!", script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; 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. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "The Monster in the Iron Mask!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A seemingly invincible alien attacks Earth, but a magician realizes that he is using misdirection to keep from facing his one weakness: gas. "Time Machine" text story. "The Man Who Found Shangri-La!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A thief uses his brother to find Shangri-La; He sees a ruin full of savages and flees into the mountains to die, while his brother finds paradise, since in Shangri-La everyone gets what they deserve. "The Crackpot," art by Don Heck; An unsuccessful inventor finally gives up, throwing his final invention away; A boy accidentally uses the gun to disintegrate three communist agents without even noticing. "The Missing Link!", script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; Scientists find a seemingly primitive man, but they discover that he is really from a future where nuclear war has destroyed civilization. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "The Man in the Beehive!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; An eccentric beekeeper reveals to a thief that he is a mutant with special powers; He shrinks the thief and frightens him with the attacks of the bees that are now larger than he is, but leaves him wondering if any of it was real. "Lady Luck" text story. "Sazzik the Sorcerer," pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A TV producer of violent sensationalist drama finds a book on a sorcerer that he thinks will bring in a big profit televised; He makes the mistake of reading the printed avocation spell out loud and the spirit of the long dead mage appears and casts him into limbo. "The One Who Isn't Human," art by Don Heck; A scientist's robot goes bad, and it is so advanced that it cannot be distinguished from a human by any instruments; Only the reaction of a dog tells the police which of several suspects is the robot. "The Thing in the Sky!", script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; The communists build a super computer space-based weapons platform and issue it commands to strike targets from where it sits in orbit. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "I was Trapped in the Chamber of Fear!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A man tries to pitch to Stan Lee the story of a blackmailer who becomes trapped within a mystic ruby as an agent of Fate to direct recently departed souls to their destination; Stan rejects the story as too outlandish even for Tales of Suspense and the man leaves the office. "Bird Talk" text story. "The Mystery of the Tax Collector from Space!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A failed actor finds a spaceship with a dead pilot and uses it in an attempt to con the authorities; The ship is actually a decoy, and is retrieved by the aliens to get a human specimen for their zoo. "The Secret of the Mirage," art by Don Heck; A doctor goes to the Middle East to treat the local people; He is attacked by bandits for curing the local sheikh, and chased into a desert mirage, which takes him to a utopian world. "Where Is the Wommelly?", script by Stan Lee (signed), art by Steve Ditko; An alien armada attempts to conquer Earth, but is driven off; One of the ships is damaged and forced to land on Earth, its pilot an outcast forever on the planet; The military is convinced they will capture the alien at any moment since it must be of monstrous appearance. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko. "I Found the Girl in the Blue Glass Bottle!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A curio shop owner uses an ancient magic bottle to shrink people, but one of his victims turns the magic of the bottle on him and escapes, as the shop owner shrinks to nothing. "Tricky Travel" text story. "The Forbidden World!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A space patrol find an alien world surrounded by a strange mist. "The Coming of the Giants!", art by Don Heck; The humanity of the near future grow proud as they approach space travel, but when alien giants arrive they are only saved from conquest because they are too tiny to notice. "Who Am I?", script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; A man finds himself lost in a fog with no idea who he is; He is approached by a stranger who offers to help him through hypnosis; The hypnosis recovers his lost memory and he realizes that he was a circus performer who has died from a fall from the high wire. 36 pgs., full color. $0.12. Cover price $0.12.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. Watcher prototype issue. "I Accepted the Deadly Challenge of Zarkorr!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A veteran space pilot is forced to retire because of his lack of experience with newer equipment, but an alien visitor gives Earth a challenge that only he can pass. "The Radio" text story. "I Must Enter the Tomb of Tut-Am-Tut!", art by Don Heck; A scientist creates a time machine to travel back to ancient Egypt in order to pose as a magician and find the location of a great treasure. "Never Threaten a Witchman!", script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; An untalented bald actor wants to receive the leading parts in plays so he goes to a witchman for a potion that will help him. "Revolt of the Robots!", art by Paul Reinman; Robots make Earth into a living paradise, but humans grow fearful and oppress them; The robots leave for another planet, where they build and oppress their own robots while Fate laughs. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby. "Meet Mr. Meek! The Most Dangerous Man in the World!", script by Stan Lee (plot) and Larry Lieber (script), art by Don Heck; A formula from an old book seems to give a man an uncontrollable power to turn objects into gold, but his friend figures out that it is actually an alien trick. "The Green Hat" text story. "The Final Weapon," art by Paul Reinman; A billionaire pretends to have invented an ultimate bomb to force the nations of the world to disarm. "The Gorilla from Outer Space!", script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; A ventriloquist makes it seem that a gorilla is talking, and finds out that the gorilla really is a sentient alien. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.12.