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Issue: Tales of Suspense #31

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Publication Date: July 1962

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Issues: #31 of 99 Issues (172 Printings)

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Variant: UK Cover Price

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

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Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN:

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Price: 9.0 pence GBQ 0-0-9

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
6 (5 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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Format

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

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Tales of Suspense #31 [U.S. Cover Price]

2 Tales of Suspense #31 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (6 total)

The Monster in the Iron Mask

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, science fiction

Character(s): Monster in the Iron Mask

First Line: We can never stop the monster without removing his iron mask!

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Pages: 1

The Monster in the Iron Mask!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, science fiction

Character(s): Monster in the Iron Mask; Bobby; Mr. Lane; Bobby's father

First Line: The only way to save the world, was to learn the secret of the iron mask!!

Synopsis: A seemingly invincible alien attacks Earth, but a magician realizes that he is using misdirection to keep from facing his one weakness: gas.

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Pages: 7

Job Number: V-714

Notes: The bottom of pages 3 and 6 include copy advertising the new Hulk comic.

Time Machine

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

First Line: I think the first time I really began to think seriously about the...

Synopsis: A man's fascination with history leads him to build a time machine and travel to the past, but when he sees the dangers of time travel he destroys the machine and blueprints.

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Pages: 2

Job Number: [G-85]

Notes: Text story with illustration. Narrated in the first person.

The Man Who Found Shangri-La!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, occult

Character(s): Harry Drumm; Paul Drumm; Mrs. Drumm

First Line: What was the secret of Shangri-La... a secret so...

Synopsis: A thief uses his brother to find Shangri-La. He sees a ruin full of savages and flees into the mountains to die, while his brother finds paradise, since in Shangri-La everyone gets what they deserve.

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Pages: 6

Job Number: V-715

The Crackpot

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Mister Smythe; Elias Poole

First Line: You can never tell what will throw a guy!

Synopsis: An unsuccessful inventor finally gives up, throwing his final invention away. A boy accidentally uses the gun to disintegrate three communist agents without even noticing.

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Pages: 5

The Missing Link!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

First Line: Was he really half-man and half-ape??

Synopsis: Scientists find a seemingly primitive man, but they discover that he is really from a future where nuclear war has destroyed civilization.

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Pages: 5