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Issue: Tales of Suspense #8
Publication Date: March 1960
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Issues: #8 of 99 Issues (166 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Male Publishing Corp.
On Sale Date: 10/27/1959
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 October 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 unless otherwise specified.
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 B810471.
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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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Original Artwork
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He Lives! He Moves! He's Monstro! The Menace from the Murky Depths!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Monstro
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2006
as Tales of Suspense #8 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Monstro... the Menace from the Murky Depths!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Monstro; Prof. Faraday; Igor
First Line: Without warning, as suddenly as a thunderclap, Monstro appeared on...
Synopsis: A giant octopus appears in the harbour of a communist seaport. An American marine biologist is sent to help, and finds that it is an ordinary octopus enlarged by communist nuclear tests, and will shrink back in 24 hours.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2006
as Monstro...The Menace from the Murky Depths! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: T-566
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The Story of Sammy Snork!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Sammy Snork
First Line: The whole thing is so fantastic that even now I can't...
Synopsis: A criminal accidently boards a Martian flying saucer and ends up on display in a zoo.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #17 published January 1963
as The Story of Sammy Snork! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2006
as The Story of Sammy Snork! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: T-574
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I Am the Changing Man!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Ozak; Les Page; Agent Craig
First Line: Make no mistake about it!
Synopsis: A shape-changing alien assumes the identity of trusted figures to sow panic. He is caught when he assumes the form of a dog he sees on a poster, not noticing that it is on a space flight for the next year.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMystic #21 published January 1962
as I Am the Changing Man! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2006
as I Am the Changing Man! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-568
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The Recipe

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Josie; Miss White; Whiskers (cat); Josie's mother
First Line: Josie was a tomboy.
Synopsis: A tomboyish girl tries out cooking to appease her mother, but accidentally cooks a witch's brew, totally inappropriate for a fairy like her.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2006
as The Recipe [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales #150 published September 1956
was The Recipe [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-338
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 20, 24 of comic (pages of story not numbered).

Illustration in this version of the text story is of a broomstick and pot.
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The Runaway Planet!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Ludwig Hauptmann
First Line: You're Ludwig Hauptmann and you teach at an American university...
Synopsis: A professor believes that a planet on a collision course will not destroy Earth because of the power that governs the universe. The planet is actually a spaceship come to greet the humans.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2006
as The Runaway Planet! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: T-5??
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It Walks by Night!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Living Robot [John]
First Line: The night was black and still as the strange figure stalked across the lonely moor!
Synopsis: Robots are outlawed after a series of malfunctions. One man builds a robot in secret, he is found out and the robot destroyed but the man, a robot in disguise, escapes.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #17 published January 1963
as It Walks by Night! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #156 published January 1975
as It Walks By Night! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2006
as It Walks by Night! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: T-573

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