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Issue: Tales of Suspense #18
Publication Date: June 1961
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Issues: #18 of 99 Issues (166 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/07/1961
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 March 1961. 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.
On sale date as given in the copyright application as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, January-June 1961, page 148, registration number B889881.
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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 Variants2
Disclose Reprinted In14
Disclose Reprinted From1
reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Kraa the Unhuman!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Kraa
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMystic #27 published January 1962
as Kraa the Unhuman! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2008
as Tales of Suspense #18 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Kraa the Unhuman Part 1

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Kraa (introduction, origin); Wabuzi tribesmen
First Line: In almost every man's life there is a fateful turning point!
Synopsis: An American teacher investigates the mysterious statues made by one tribe in Africa, and finds that they worship a native mutated into a monster by a Soviet atomic test. The teacher soothes the man's pain with ointment, but before the American can get him to a hospital he dies protecting his helper from a python.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMystic #27 published January 1962
as Kraa the Unhuman [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #15 published May 1972
as Kraa the Unhuman [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 1
In Content Item: FlagMonster Masterworks #[nn] published January 1989
as Kraa the Unhuman [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 1
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2008
as Kraa the Unhuman, Part 1 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-178
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. Kraa next appears in Nick Fury's Howling Commandos (Marvel, 2005 series) #6 (May 2006). Story is pages 3-7, 10 of comic (pages numbered 1 to 6).
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The Money Tree

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Billy Anderson; Tom Anderson; Amy Anderson
First Line: All was not as peaceful as it seemed in the Anderson household.
Synopsis: A young boy's father scoffs when his son tries to grow a money tree, but the world is astonished when he succeeds.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2008
as The Money Tree [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Unknown Worlds #39 published November 1955
was The Money Tree [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: G-977
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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Kraa! Part 2

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Kraa; Wabuzi tribesmen
First Line: Behold, mortal--you are in my power!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #15 published May 1972
as Kraa the Unhuman [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 2
In Content Item: FlagMonster Masterworks #[nn] published January 1989
as Kraa the Unhuman [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2008
as [Kraa the Unhuman], Part 2: Kraa! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: V-178
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 11-14, 16-18 of comic (pages numbered 7 to 13).

In "Kraa the Unhuman" Part 1, the tribesmen are referred to as the Wabuzi; in Part 2, the tribesmen are called the Wambuzi.
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The Mysterious Mr. P!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Pied Piper; Brigitte; Igor
First Line: It's evening... We're at the rear of a theater...
Synopsis: A mysterious but famous clarinetist is trapped by communists and pressed to become a propaganda mouthpiece. Instead he leads the dictators into the sky, revealing himself as the Pied Piper.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2008
as The Mysterious Mr. P! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-180
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
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Enter....the Robot!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Max Garr; Mr. Kellen
First Line: In a lonely mining town back east, the deep, dark coal shafts are...
Synopsis: A mine foreman is concerned that a new robot may take his job, so he scrambles the wires in its control panel. When a cave-in occurs, the men outside contact the foreman by radio and tell him that the robot was not built to work in the mine, but as a safety measure. All he has to do to escape the collapsed tunnel is turn the robot on, but since he has sabotaged the robot's wiring, all he can do is desperately attempt to find the right connections by accident until his air gives out.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #20 published December 1972
as Enter....the Robot! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFantomet #4/1985 published January 1985
as Roboten [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2008
as Enter....the Robot! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-179
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

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