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Issue: Tales of Suspense #28
Publication Date: April 1962
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Issues: #28 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: 01/09/1962
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newsstands in January 1962 (January 9 according to Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website, January 16 according to Bob Bailey). This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.
On sale date as given in the copyright application as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, January-June 1962, page 175, registration number B948089.
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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 In13
Disclose Reprinted From1
reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images1
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Back From the Dead!/The Dummy's Secret!/The Black Planet!/The Coming of Titan!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
Character(s): Captain of the Stone Men; Harry Dawes; Titan; Herman; Bruno Brugg
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as Tales of Suspense #28 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Titan, the Amphibian from Atlantis!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): John Cartwright; Titan
First Line: This is our Earth as it might look to distant eyes...
Synopsis: John Cartwright, an auto executive, pretends to betray the human race to the invaders from Atlantis.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFantasy Masterpieces #7 published February 1967
as Titan, the Amphibian from Atlantis! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #12 published October 1975
as Titan, the Amphibian from Atlantis! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMonster Masterworks #[nn] published January 1989
as Titan, the Amphibian from Atlantis! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as Titan, the Amphibian from Atlantis! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: V-559
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Special Sale

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Marvin Kale; Paula Kale
First Line: Normally, Marvin Kale never went shopping for his wife.
Synopsis: When a husband goes shopping he finds a new cleaning fluid that makes anything better than new, even him.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as Special Sale [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales of the Unusual #5 published August 1956
was Special Sale [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: J-932
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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Back From the Dead!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Harry Dawes; Captain of the Stone Men
First Line: In South America, as elsewhere, running feet can mean many things!
Synopsis: A fugitive hides on Easter Island and finds a scroll that awakens the stone heads. They turn out to be aliens, and take him with them as a zoo specimen.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagChamber of Chills #11 published July 1974
as Back From the Dead! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagL'Incroyable Hulk #43 published February 1975
as Revenu d'entre les morts! [Story on Interior Page(s)]as "Revenu d'entre les morts!", French translation
In Content Item: FlagTomb of Darkness #16 [unnamed variant] published September 1975
as Back from the Dead! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as Back from the Dead! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-560
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The Dummy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): The Great Gregory; Herman
First Line: He called himself the Great Gregory, and he claimed to be...
Synopsis: Ventriloquist the Great Gregory and his wooden puppet Herman are both wooden aliens from Uranus!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as The Dummy [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-561
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The Secret of the Black Planet

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Bruno Brugg
First Line: This is a prison asteroid, floating in lonely space, sometime in...
Synopsis: A man escapes from a prison planet only to mistake a native creature on another world for a rocket ship and ends up about to be devoured.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Wonder Tales #4 published June 1974
as The Secret of the Black Planet [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as The Secret of the Black Planet [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-562

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