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Issue: Tales of Suspense #12
Publication Date: November 1960
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Issues: #12 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: 06/27/1960
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newsstands in June 1960. 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 1960, page 345, registration number B849997.
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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:  
Disclose Reprinted In11
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Adult Image
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Gor-Kill, the Living Demon

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Gor-Kill
First Line: It is Gor-Kill!!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #195 published January 1980
as Gor-Kill, the Living Demon [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2008
as Tales of Suspense #12 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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I Alone Know the Dread Secret of Gor-Kill, the Living Demon!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Gor-Kill; Hans Grubnik
First Line: It is the demon--Gor-Kill!!
Synopsis: A gaseous alien comes down to Earth and inhabits a dam of water to harass local villagers. The village loafer realizes that the alien is using the water in the dam to embody itself and steals dynamite in order blow up the pass before the alien can reach the sea. The loafer succeeds, but is imprisoned for stealing the dynamite.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #1 published January 1970
as I Alone Know the Dread Secret of Gor-Kill, The Lurking Demon! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2008
as I Alone Know the Secret of Gor-Kill, the Living Demon! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: T-849
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 3-7, 10-11 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 7).
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Vial of Inspiration

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Gus Harris; Mr. Peters; Mrs. Peters
First Line: It happened when Gus Harris was an apple-cheeked youngster with...
Synopsis: A boy without a family is given a vial filled with music, but squanders the inspiration of it.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2008
as Vial of Inspiration [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagWorld of Fantasy #6 published March 1957
was Vial of Inspiration [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: J-628
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustrations. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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Those Who Lurk Below!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Pierre; Kragok
First Line: It is a small foreign island in the ocean, during the last century!
Synopsis: A sadistic jailer buys a book detailing an alien civilization that has retreated below the Earth in order to avoid surface climate change in order to torment his prisoner with false hope of escape. The prisoner finds the book and believes the story and later he finds a working digger to bring him down to the aliens below who welcome him. The astonished jailer spends the rest of his life unsuccessfully attempting to locate another working digger.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFantasy Masterpieces #2 [U.S. Cover Price] published April 1966
as Those Who Lurk Below! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2008
as I Must Find Those Who Lurk Below! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: T-853
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 12-14, 16-18 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 6).
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The Monster in My Cellar!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): un-named science fiction writer; the writer's un-named editor
First Line: There's something down here...
Synopsis: Wanting to give his editor a monster story to end all monster stories, a science fiction writer's imagination somehow makes the monster in his story real. He fights in the cellar and upstairs until he can imagine it out of existence. Once done, he swears never to write a science fiction story again!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #4 published July 1970
as The Monster in My Cellar! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2008
as The Monster in My Cellar! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-854
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
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I Met the Thing on Midnight Island!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Rick Jordan
First Line: Even now I can hardly believe it...
Synopsis: A sailor finds a note from a castaway, but on the island named he finds only a strange creature. When an alien ship arrives to pick up the creature, he realizes that it was a castaway.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #4 published July 1970
as I Met the Thing on Midnight Island! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2008
as I Met the Thing on Midnight Island! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-847
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

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