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Issue: Tales of Suspense #19
Publication Date: July 1961
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Issues: #19 of 99 Issues (166 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: MCView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/13/1961
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 April 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 B902925.
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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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Disclose Reprinted In11
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
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Original Artwork
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The Green Thing!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): The Green Thing
First Line: It is now midnight!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2008
as Tales of Suspense #19 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #29 published ?
as The Green Thing! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Green Thing!, Part 1

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): The Green Thing; Ignatius Rex
First Line: Ever since it happened, I've been as nervous--as fearful--as a condemned man!
Synopsis: A botanist invents a serum to magnify the latent intelligence of plants. He tested it on a remote island, but the plant was evil and wanted to conquer the world. The scientist ran from the plant and used the serum on a more advanced plant, which was benevolent and stopped the evil plant.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #14 published March 1972
as The Green Thing! [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 1
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2008
as The Green Thing!, Part 1 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-216
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. Story is pages 3-7, 10 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 6).
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Lady Luck

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Lester Ford; Marie Ford; Lady Luck
First Line: Lester counted up all his cards and gave the number to the scorekeeper.
Synopsis: A businessman doesn’t believe in luck, but several beneficial encounters with an old lady change his mind.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2008
as Lady Luck [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales #136 published July 1955
was Lady Luck [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: G-377
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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[The Green Thing!], Part 2

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): The Green Thing; Ignatius Rex
First Line: I made a horrible, deadly mistake!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #14 published March 1972
as The Green Thing! [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 2
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2008
as [The Green Thing!], Part 2 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: V-216
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 11-14, 16-18 of comic (pages of story numbered 7 to 13).
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The Haunted Paper!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Nick Rover [Mr. Nicholas]; Olef
First Line: Nick Rover was always just one step ahead of the law!
Synopsis: A criminal skips town and sets up a newspaper as a front. When his typesetter changes the headlines from what they should read into what actually happens in the near future, he realizes he's got a goldmine, but the typesetter refuses to tell him how he can accurately predict the future. The criminal threatens to fire and blacklist the typesetter if he doesn't come clean, and the next headline he sets tells of an accident happening to the newspaper owner. Panicked, he turns himself in to the police so that he will be safe in jail, which is what the typesetter wanted all along.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #14 published March 1972
as The Haunted Paper! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2008
as The Haunted Paper! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-213
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
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The Coming of Maaboo!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Charlie Wilkes; Maaboo
First Line: Some people call me a soldier of fortune, others more rightly figure me for...
Synopsis: A mercenary hears of a tribe that hoards gold while waiting for the return of a legendary alien. The mercenary poses as the alien and steals the gold, but he is abducted by the real alien.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #14 published March 1972
as The Coming of Maaboo! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2008
as The Coming of Maaboo! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-217
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

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