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Issue: Tales of Suspense #22

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Publication Date: October 1961

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Issues: #22 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

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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 #22 [U.S. Cover Price]

Tales of Suspense #22 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (6 total)

Beware of Bruttu!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, science fiction

Character(s): Bruttu [Howard Lindley]

First Line: Look!! Ahead in the tunnel!!

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Pages: 1

Beware of...Bruttu [, Part 1]

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, science fiction

Character(s): Bruttu [Howard Lindley]; Anne Benson

First Line: The whole fantastic thing never would have occurred if I hadn't been built so small!

Synopsis: An often bullied scientist accidentally transforms himself into a monster, and is attacked when he can’t make himself understood. In his new form he discovers that the girl he’d thought out of his league really loves him, and manages to make himself human again.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Job Number: V-333

Notes: Narrated in the first person. Story is pages 3-7, 10 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 6).

Mystery Trip

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Tommy Pidgeon; Goober Jones; Rosie; Uncle Pete

First Line: There was much excitement in the Pidgeon household the week that Uncle Pete was...

Synopsis: Tommy's uncle returns from a space journey needing to re-learn how to walk on earth instead of floating.

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Pages: 2

Job Number: K-266

Notes: Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).

[Beware of...Bruttu], Part 2: Bruttu

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Bruttu [Howard Lindley]; Anne Benson

First Line: Stop! Calm yourselves!

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Pages: 7

Job Number: V-333

Notes: Story is pages 11-14, 16-18 of comic (pages of story numbered 7 to 13).

Only One Is Human!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Robert Brown; John Baxter; Henry Sloan; Fred Winthrop

First Line: It was the first meeting of Martians and humans, as I led the first human landing on Mars!

Synopsis: A human unit on Mars realises that a disguised Martian is in their midst, they cannot tell the imposter and the real human apart, until a false piece of bad news makes the real human weep, uncovering the Martian.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Notes: Narrated in the first person. Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

The Anatomy of a Nightmare!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

First Line: The creature's eyes were like two fiery orbs, burning into mine!

Synopsis: A science fiction writer is stuck, so he takes some pills, hoping a nightmare will inspire him. He dreams of horrible red-eyed aliens, but is disappointed, since that's only his own dull world.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-309

Notes: Narrated in the first person. This story is retold in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #100 (January 1964) as "The Unreal!" by Stan Lee and Larry Lieber. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).