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Issue: Tales of Suspense #29

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Publication Date: May 1962

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Issues: #29 of 99 Issues (166 Printings)

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Variant: UK Cover Price

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

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Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications, Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN:

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Price: 9.0 pence GBQ 0-0-9

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
7 (5 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Silver Age U.S.

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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Tales of Suspense #29 [U.S. Cover Price]

Tales of Suspense #29 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (7 total)

The Martian Who Stole a City!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, science fiction

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Pages: 1

The Martian Who Stole a City!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Bill Gordon; Bobby Carter; Mr. Carter; Mrs. Carter

First Line: The first person it happens to is Bill Gordon!

Synopsis: A Martian steals a city piece by piece, until a young boy figures out that it is vulnerable to light.

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Pages: 7

Mystery Mansion

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Sam Catlett; Caspar; Ben Rump; Bill Rump

First Line: There was something peculiar about the old Catlett estate.

Synopsis: A local millionaire secludes himself from his old bowling buddies as he becomes wealthier, but they discover that he misses them so much that he has invented a robotic bowling alley.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1.75

Job Number: H-396

Notes: The first page is printed between the pages of "The Martian Who Stole a City!", while the second page is printed between "It Was Only a Simple Barber Shop...Or Was It??!" and "The Thing In the Locked Room!". The last page is split with the statement of ownership.

Nothing Can Save Us!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Capt. Rick Marshall

First Line: The year is 2088!

Synopsis: 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.

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Pages: 6

Job Number: V-615

It Was Only a Simple Barber Shop...or Was It??!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Muggsy Bogar; Joe the Barber; Bill

First Line: Muggsy Bogar is a fellow who is very much in demand, as you can see...

Synopsis: 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.

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Pages: 5

Notes: The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko.

Statement Required by the Act of August 24, 1912, as Amended by the Acts of March 3, 1933, July 2, 1946 and June 11, 1960 (74 Stat. 208)

Statement of Ownership on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 0.25

Notes: Average circulation per issue October 1960–September 1961 (issues #26–36, despite monthly cover dates): 184,635. This shares the last page of "Mystery Mansion".

The Thing in the Locked Room!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Prince Zemu

First Line: Time is running out!

Synopsis: Prince Zemu takes a strange painting as part of his booty, only to discover it saps his life and youth from him.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-616