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Issue: Tales of Suspense #23
Publication Date: November 1961
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Issues: #23 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: 08/08/1961
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 August 1961 (August 8 according to Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group, August 22 according to Bob Bailey). 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, July-December 1961, page 365, registration number B917820.
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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
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images1
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Original Artwork
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The Creature in the Black Bog!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): John; Martha
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as Tales of Suspense #23 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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I Entered the Dimension of Doom!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): John Cummings
First Line: Out there among the stars exist countless other worlds!
Synopsis: A teenager uncovers a plot of two-dimensional beings to invade Earth by posing as a construction crew to dig a hole in the street that acts as a passageway between dimensions and thwarts their designs.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFear #9 published August 1972
as I Entered the Dimension of Doom! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #200 published January 1982
as I Entered the Dimension of Doom! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as I Entered the Dimension of Doom! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: V-356
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The Wish

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Tom Norton; Mr. Mason; Mr. Frank; Bobby Norton
First Line: Wishing doesn't always make it so, but in Tom's case it was different.
Synopsis: A real estate agent gains telepathy from a magic paper weight.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as The Wish [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagSpellbound #24 published October 1955
was The Wish [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: G-672
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The Creature from the Black Bog!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): John; Martha
First Line: At last we've sold the store, Martha!
Synopsis: A retired couple exploring the Everglades comes upon an alien who has been mired in the bog after landing to affect repairs and was making his way back to the ship. In exchange for their help in securing enough vines to pull him free of the bog, he removes their memories of the incident and makes them younger.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #19 published October 1972
as The Creature from the Black Bog! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFantomet #13/1988 published January 1988
as Vesenet i sumpen! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as The Creature from the Black Bog! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-357
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Going Down!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Simon Queel; Luther Zoroni; Mr. Cartwright
First Line: The seeds of mystery and danger can grow anywhere!
Synopsis: A greedy elevator operator fakes an accident to get a rich customer to give him a big tip, but the elevator falls forever as the suddenly sinister passenger promises he’ll get his reward.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreatures on the Loose #19 published September 1972
as Going Down! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagL'Incroyable Hulk #25 published January 1973
as On descend ! [Story on Interior Page(s)]as "On descend !", French translation
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as Going Down! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-358
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The Changeling

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): John; Alana; King (dog)
First Line: Bored with the present?
Synopsis: A teenager in the future desires to return to Earth despite scientist's warning that over thousands of years humans are no longer adapted to life on Earth. When the boy steals a rocket ship and makes the faster than light journey back to the original homeworld, he finds that the scientists were indeed correct as his rocket ship is only about an inch tall to the Earthmen.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #19 published October 1972
as The Changeling [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFantomet #10/1987 published January 1987
as Byttingen [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as The Changeling [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-359

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