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Issue: Tales of Suspense #16
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Is Variant Variant: British
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
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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)
7 (5 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
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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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The Thing Called Metallo!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Subject Matter
horror, science fiction
Metallo [Mike Fallon]
There is no place to run, humans!
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Miscellaneous
1
The Thing Called Metallo!, Part One

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
horror, science fiction
Metallo [Mike Fallon]
Our tale begins with the midnight stillness of a prison being...
An escaped convict tests a radiation-proof suit under a fake name. When he realizes the suit’s power, he uses it to go on a crime spree. When he finds that he has a disease only treatable by radiation he stays in the suit to die rather than be captured.
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Miscellaneous
6
V-110
Narrated in the second person. Story is pages 3-7, 10 of comic (pages numbered 1 to 6).
The Holiday

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
science fiction
Zed; Zack; Zed's mother
Zed was as excited as any youngster in Unitia on that...
A boy celebrates the turn of the millenium with a special trip to the moon.
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Miscellaneous
1.75
G-790
Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered). This story is set at the end of the 29th century. The first page is split with the statement of ownership.
Part 2

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
science fiction
Metallo [Mike Fallon]
The deadly rocket goes higher--higher--until it hovers a scant...
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Miscellaneous
7
V-110
Story is pages 11-14, 16-18 of comic (pages numbered 7 to 13).
Statement Required by the Act of August 24, 1912, as Amended by the Acts of March 3, 1933, July 2, 1946 and June 11, 1960 (74 Stat. 208)

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
typeset
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Miscellaneous
0.25
Average circulation per issue October 1959–September 1960 (issues #8–14): 148,929. This shares the first page of "The Holiday".
Nightmare!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
horror, occult
John Larson; Dunstan Kromm
They're comin' closer!
A man scoffs at his friend’s idea that a nightmare could last forever, causing him to storm out, drive off the road and die. He wakes up having the same conversation, in a nightmare loop.
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Miscellaneous
5
V-109
Narrated in the second person. Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
The Hands of Hogarr!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
horror, occult
Carl Gruko; Hogarr; Inspector Baynard
I warned him, but he wouldn't listen to me!
A fugitive forces a gypsy to give him a new face, but he is captured because it is the same face as his pursuer.
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Miscellaneous
5
V-116
Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

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