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Issue: Tales of Suspense #16
Publication Date: April 1961
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Issues: #16 of 99 Issues (172 Printings)
Title:
Is Variant Variant: British
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN:
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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Disclose Notes: A price variant intended for distribution in the United Kingdom, with replaced cover price.
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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
Genres: horror, science fiction
Character(s): Metallo [Mike Fallon]
First Line: There is no place to run, humans!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Thing Called Metallo!, Part One

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
Character(s): Metallo [Mike Fallon]
First Line: Our tale begins with the midnight stillness of a prison being...
Synopsis: 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
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-110
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the second person. Story is pages 3-7, 10 of comic (pages numbered 1 to 6).
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The Holiday

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Zed; Zack; Zed's mother
First Line: Zed was as excited as any youngster in Unitia on that...
Synopsis: A boy celebrates the turn of the millenium with a special trip to the moon.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1.75
Job Number: G-790
Disclose Notes: 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.
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Part 2

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Metallo [Mike Fallon]
First Line: The deadly rocket goes higher--higher--until it hovers a scant...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: V-110
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 11-14, 16-18 of comic (pages numbered 7 to 13).
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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
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.25
Disclose Notes: Average circulation per issue October 1959–September 1960 (issues #8–14): 148,929. This shares the first page of "The Holiday".
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Nightmare!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): John Larson; Dunstan Kromm
First Line: They're comin' closer!
Synopsis: 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
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-109
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the second person. Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
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The Hands of Hogarr!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Carl Gruko; Hogarr; Inspector Baynard
First Line: I warned him, but he wouldn't listen to me!
Synopsis: 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
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-116
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

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