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Issue: Tales of Suspense #15

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Publication Date: March 1961

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Issues: #15 of 99 Issues (172 Printings)

Title:

Variant: British

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 #15 [unnamed variant]

Tales of Suspense #15 [British]

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Content Items (6 total)

Behold...Goom!...The Thing from Planet X!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, science fiction

Character(s): Goom

First Line: Get back!

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Pages: 1

Goom! The Thing from Planet X!, Part 1

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, science fiction

Character(s): Goom (introduction, origin); Mark Langley (introduction); Helen Langley (introduction)

First Line: I can still remember the mocking laughter, when I first spoke of my theory!

Synopsis: After attracting the hostile attention of Goom of Planet X, a scientist realizes that any civilization possessing such advanced technology must be benevolent and that his radar transmissions must have been intercepted by a criminal. He rebroadcasts to Planet X, and the Earth officials plan to execute him as a traitor summoning a full invasion fleet from Planet X, when the representatives from Planet X arrive and stop the execution and take Goom into their custody and leave the planet.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Job Number: V-87

Notes: Goom's next published appearance is in Incredible Hulk Annual #6, November 1976; while his next chronological appearance is in Marvel Monsters: Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (December 2005); he also appeared in Nick Fury's Howling Commandos (Marvel, 2005 series). The speech of the scientist hero at the end is similar to many others in Marvel books at this time, including Reed Richards' speech in Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #24 (March 1964). Story is pages 3-7, 10 of comic (pages numbered 1 to 6).

Masquerade

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy, occult

Character(s): Tommy; Kitty Blake; Old King Cole

First Line: Tommy used to be the fellow from Missouri...

Synopsis: A man with no imagination is invited to a costume party by his girlfriend, but stumbles across real fairy-tale folk instead.

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Pages: 2

Job Number: G-750

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

Goom, Part 2

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Goom; Mark Langley; Helen Langley

First Line: Like a giant juggernaut the oppressor Goom razed the forest until...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Job Number: V-87

Notes: Story is pages 11-14, 16-18 of comic (pages numbered 7 to 13).

I Am the Living Ghost!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy, occult

First Line: For the last seven hundred years I have been living in Blackhorn Castle, here on the desolate moors!

Synopsis: A man enters a castle determined to prove that there are no ghosts, but the events he experiences convince him that the castle is haunted, and so he flees. It turns out that the castle does not contain any ghosts, but is possessed by animated suits of armor and living stone gargoyles.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Notes: Narrated by one of the animated beings. Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

Moomboo!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Moomboo

First Line: You shut your eyes... You raise your arms...

Synopsis: A shaman cons his tribe, but when a seemingly magic idol appears he attacks it and it vanishes. It was an extra-dimensional scout, and its experience decides its people not to contact Earth.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: V-56

Notes: Narrated in the second person to the shaman. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).