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Issue: Tales of Suspense #29
Publication Date: May 1962
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Issues: #29 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: 02/08/1962
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newsstands in February 1962 (February 8 according to Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website, February 27 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 B951306.
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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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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Assets2
Indicia
 
 
Statement of Ownership
 
 
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The Martian Who Stole a City!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as Tales of Suspense #29 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Martian Who Stole a City!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Bill Gordon; Bobby Carter; Mr. Carter; Mrs. Carter
First Line: The first person it happens to is Bill Gordon!
Synopsis: A Martian steals a city piece by piece, until a young boy figures out that it is vulnerable to light.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #21 published February 1973
as The Martian Who Stole a City! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrypt of Shadows #20 published October 1975
as The Martian Who Stole a City! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as The Martian Who Stole a City! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Mystery Mansion

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Sam Catlett; Caspar; Ben Rump; Bill Rump
First Line: There was something peculiar about the old Catlett estate.
Synopsis: A local millionaire secludes himself from his old bowling buddies as he becomes wealthier, but they discover that he misses them so much that he has invented a robotic bowling alley.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as Mystery Mansion [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagAstonishing #45 published January 1956
was Mystery Mansion [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1.75
Job Number: H-396
Disclose Notes: The first page is printed between the pages of "The Martian Who Stole a City!", while the second page is printed between "It Was Only a Simple Barber Shop...Or Was It??!" and "The Thing In the Locked Room!". The last page is split with the statement of ownership.
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Nothing Can Save Us!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Capt. Rick Marshall
First Line: The year is 2088!
Synopsis: Trapped on a small planet a group of space pilots almost kill a space dragon out of fear until they realize that it protects the planet from runaway asteroids.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #21 published February 1973
as Nothing Can Save Us! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as Nothing Can Save Us! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-615
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It Was Only a Simple Barber Shop...or Was It??!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Muggsy Bogar; Joe the Barber; Bill
First Line: Muggsy Bogar is a fellow who is very much in demand, as you can see...
Synopsis: Muggsy Bogar is a crook on the run. A mysterious figure instructs him to hide in a nearby barbershop. He goes in and the barber hides him forever.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #15 [unnamed variant] published February 1975
as It Was Only a Simple Barber Shop...or Was It??! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as It Was Only a Simple Barber Shop...or Was It??! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko.
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Statement Required by the Act of August 24, 1912, as Amended by the Acts of March 3, 1933, July 2, 1946 and June 11, 1960 (74 Stat. 208)

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.25
Disclose Notes: Average circulation per issue October 1960–September 1961 (issues #26–36, despite monthly cover dates): 184,635. This shares the last page of "Mystery Mansion".
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The Thing in the Locked Room!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Prince Zemu
First Line: Time is running out!
Synopsis: Prince Zemu takes a strange painting as part of his booty, only to discover it saps his life and youth from him.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagChamber of Chills #17 published July 1975
as The Thing in the Locked Room! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as The Thing in the Locked Room! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-616

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