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Issue: Tales of Suspense #6
Publication Date: November 1959
 
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Male Publishing Corp.
On Sale Date: 07/01/1959
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newsstands in July 1959. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements (pages 2, 9, 15, 19, 25, 27, 33-36 of comic including inside front cover, inside back cover and back cover); pages of comic not numbered. All new stories in this issue are narrated in the first person.
On sale date as given in the copyright application as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, July-December 1959, page 371, registration number B790630.
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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
Format Notes:  
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I Hear It Howl in the Swamp!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
science fiction
Charley
It's the thing from the swamp!
Reprinting
FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2006
as Tales of Suspense #6 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
1
I Hear It Howl in the Swamp!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
science fiction
Charley
The unknown swamp holds many secrets...
A fishing guide encounters an alien monster in the swamp, and after initial disbelief, the military plans to kill it. When two larger aliens arrive to take the thing away, they realize that it was only a lost child.
Reprinting
FlagJames Bond #18/1972 published January 1972
as Skriet från träsket [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2006
as I Hear It Howl in the Swamp! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
5
T-3??
Lady Luck

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
?
typeset
Subject Matter
occult
Lester Ford; Marie Ford; Lady Luck
A businessman doesn’t believe in luck, but several beneficial encounters with an old lady change his mind.
Reprinting
FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2006
as Lady Luck [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagMarvel Tales #136 published July 1955
was Lady Luck [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
2
G-377
Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
I Was Captured by the Cyclops!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
fantasy
Mr. Sloane; Sinbad
It must have been only a hideous dream!
A man mentally transports himself to the past and becomes Sinbad, experiencing his encounter with the cyclops. He thinks that it was only a fantasy, but finds that he is still holding one of the cyclops' jewels.
Reprinting
FlagCreepy Worlds #17 published January 1963
as I Was Captured by the Cyclops! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2006
as I Was Captured by the Cyclops! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
5
T-391
The Mutants and Me!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
science fiction
Henry Marsh; Vincent Farnsworth
A man ignores his friend's theories about super-powered mutant humans, but after teleporting himself out of a locked safe he reconsiders.
Reprinting
FlagCreepy Worlds #17 published January 1963
as The Mutants and Me! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagCreepy Worlds #156 published January 1975
as The Mutants and Me! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2006
as The Mutants and Me! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
4
T-395
"The Man in the Sky" by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko in Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series) #14 (July 1962) is often called 'the first mutant story' but this predates it by more than two years.
Who Hides Beneath My Mask?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
occult
"Hard Luck" Harry; Mr. Craddock
A burglar wears a rubber mask to avoid identification, but after his victim sees him, he discovers that his face has changed to match his mask.
Reprinting
FlagCreepy Worlds #17 published January 1963
as Who Hides Beneath My Mask? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2006
as Who Hides Beneath My Mask? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
4
T-392
This story is retold in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #11 (September 1960) as "I Wore...the Mask of Drothor!" drawn by Steve Ditko and in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #91 (December 1961) as "The Mask of Morgumm!" drawn by Don Heck.
The Luna Lizards Had Me Trapped!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
science fiction
Human colonists on an alien world believe that they are being attacked by aliens, who, in fact, are trying to help them.
Reprinting
FlagJames Bond #21/[1972] published October 1972
as Månödlornas byte [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2006
as The Luna Lizards Had Me Trapped! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
5
T-387

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