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Issue: Tales of Suspense #38

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Publication Date: February 1963

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Issues: #38 of 99 Issues (172 Printings)

Title:

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)
5 (4 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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2 Tales of Suspense #38 [U.S. Cover Price]

Tales of Suspense #38 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (5 total)

The Teen-Ager Who Ruled the World!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, occult

Character(s): Bill Turner

First Line: How would you like to have your own personal genie?

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Pages: 1

The Teen-Ager Who Ruled the World!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy, occult

Character(s): Bill Turner; Miss Parker; Joe; unnamed genie; John; Freddie

First Line: Behold the awesome genie!

Synopsis: An arrogant teen-ager finds a genie's lamp and tries to make the world perfect, but finds that all his wishes have unexpected results.

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Pages: 11

Job Number: X-14

We Can't All Be Human!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Henry Mathews; Frank; Sgt. Ogg

First Line: Out of the unending cosmic darkness comes an alien spaceship...

Synopsis: Seemingly friendly aliens arrive on Earth, seeking refuge from pirates, but a philosophy student figures out that the first visitors are the pirates, and disguised themselves to appear pleasant to humans.

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Pages: 7

Blueprint for Victory

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: war

Character(s): LtC. Cam Westover; Maj. Franks; Cpt. Bill Trayne; Gen. von Kretz

First Line: The Rhine and its ruined bridges lay thirty miles behind and the...

Synopsis: A cunning spy infiltrates German HQ with a phoney blueprint as bait and paralyzes communications before a major US assault.

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Pages: 2

Job Number: [G-60]

Notes: Text story with illustration.

The Man in the Mirror!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, occult

Character(s): Silas Haggle; J.J. Jones; Smedley

First Line: What is a mirror?

Synopsis: A millionaire buys an enchanted mirror that allows him to wish any person he dislikes to be trapped inside of it. He wishes dozens of people into the mirror until he is contacted by agents of the IRS who wish to audit his books. He briefly considers wishing them into the mirror, but realizes that the government would just send more, so he decides to wish that no one will ever bother him again. He gets his wish, as he finds that all the people who were trapped in the mirror have been released and now he is its sole prisoner.

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Pages: 5