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Issue: Tales of Suspense #33

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Publication Date: September 1962

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Issues: #33 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 #33 [U.S. Cover Price]

Tales of Suspense #33 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (6 total)

I was a Prisoner of the...Chamber of Fear!!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, occult

Character(s): Mike Mathews; Hiram Cragmoor

First Line: Come back, Mathews!

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Pages: 1

I was Trapped in the Chamber of Fear!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, occult

Character(s): Mike Mathews; Hiram Cragmoor; Vera Vandeer; Chuck Dawson

First Line: Our story starts at the "Tales of Suspense" editorial office!

Synopsis: A man tries to pitch to Stan Lee the story of a blackmailer who becomes trapped within a mystic ruby as an agent of Fate to direct recently departed souls to their destination. Stan rejects the story as too outlandish even for Tales of Suspense and the man leaves the office. Outside, the man mutters to himself that his secret is safe since even if the blackmailer escapes the ruby no one will believe him and then he blinks out of existence.

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Pages: 7

Notes: Last page of story shows a poster of The Hulk on the wall of Stan Lee's office, considered by some to be the first Hulk crossover/cameo.

Bird Talk

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy, occult

Character(s): Tony Tipple; Skeets Mulligan; Toodles Murphy; Mrs. Tipple; Small Talk (parakeet); Mrs. Murphy

First Line: All the kids on the block were getting parakeets.

Synopsis: A meeting with a strange man gives a boy an unusual way of getting a pet bird, talking to birds.

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Pages: 2

Job Number: [K-424]

Notes: Text story with illustration.

The Mystery of the Tax Collector from Space!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Harry Grubb [Orgg]

First Line: Every city has its down-and-outers!

Synopsis: A failed actor finds a spaceship with a dead pilot and uses it in an attempt to con the authorities. The ship is actually a decoy, and is retrieved by the aliens to get a human specimen for their zoo.

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Pages: 6

Job Number: V-806

The Secret of the Mirage

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy, horror, occult

Character(s): Robert Jones; Sheikh Abdul Ben Hassi

First Line: Behold! I am the desert!

Synopsis: A doctor goes to the Middle East to treat the local people. He is attacked by bandits for curing the local sheikh, and chased into a desert mirage, which takes him to a utopian world. Only the worthy may enter, and the bandits chase the mirage through the desert until death.

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Pages: 5

Where Is the Wommelly?

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Wommellies (extraterrestrials)

First Line: Earth had one problem to solve if it was ever to...

Synopsis: An alien armada attempts to conquer Earth, but is driven off. One of the ships is damaged and forced to land on Earth, its pilot an outcast forever on the planet. The military soldiers are convinced they will capture the alien at any moment since it must be of monstrous appearance. As they walk past a nondescript gentlemen reading a newspaper, he says softly "It's a shame we just didn't land secretly and take over. These earthlings are so conceited that it would never occur to them that someone else would look just like them."

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Pages: 5