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Issue: Tales of Suspense #21

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Publication Date: September 1961

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Issues: #21 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 #21 [U.S. Cover Price]

Tales of Suspense #21 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (6 total)

This Is...Klagg!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, science fiction

Character(s): Klagg

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Pages: 1

Notes: The unaltered cover was published in the British reprint Spellbound # 40. In this version Klagg is almost completely covered in ink and made to look more like the interior version, with smoke added to the upper left corner. Info per Nick Caputo, May 2016.

Klagg! His Mission: Destroy Mankind!, Part 1

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, science fiction

Character(s): Klagg; Philip; Clair; Mrs. Jones; John

First Line: Last year in a radar station behind the Iron Curtain, an unidentified flying object was spotted!

Synopsis: Klagg, an alien who visits Earth, becomes so upset upon learning humanity still wages war that he declares war upon the nations of the Earth. The hero of the story convinces communist agents to pool their forces with the democracies in an effort to present a united front against Klagg. The effort is successful because the fact the various nations were able to set aside their differences and band together convinces Klagg to give up his campaign of destruction and leave Earth.

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Pages: 6

Job Number: V-289

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

Sdrawkcab

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

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Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Character(s): Oston Trams; Mrs. Trams; Laer Trams; Mike Ross

First Line: Most people agreed that he was a backward baby.

Synopsis: An extraordiinary child excels at sports and school, but does it all backwards.

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Pages: 2

Job Number: K-18

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

Klagg, Part 2

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Klagg; Philip; Clair

First Line: Klagg is entering the town!

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Pages: 7

Job Number: V-289

Notes: Story is pages 11-14, 16-18 of comic (pages of story numbered 7 to 12, last page not numbered).

Whose Face Is in the Mirror?

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, occult

Character(s): Joe Kane

First Line: This particular day started off just like any other for our hero, Joe Kane, office worker...

Synopsis: A man wakes up in the morning and sees a stranger's face in the mirror and then it shatters. He tries looking into another mirror and the same thing happens. He looks into a full length mirror and it happens a third time. He makes his way to work, avoiding mirrors, until he stands before the elevator. When the door opens, the man whose face he has seen is standing inside producing a terror-stricken reaction. Our hero runs away, and the puzzled man leaves the elevator which cable snaps, sending it plunging down the shaft to destruction.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-288

The Man from... Tomorrow!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Walter Phelps; Charlie; Marcus

First Line: Hey, Charlie!

Synopsis: A man invents a time machine to travel back to the Roman Empire of 25 A.D. and set himself up as king, but all the present day devices he has brought back with him to prove his claims do not work without electricity, fuel, and broadcasting stations.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-290

Notes: Narrated in the first person. This story is a retelling of "Trapped in Yesterday!" drawn by Carl Burgos in Tales of Suspense #2 (March 1959). Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).