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Issue: Tales of Suspense #17

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Publication Date: May 1961

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Issues: #17 of 99 Issues (166 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 #17 [U.S. Cover Price]

Tales of Suspense #17 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (6 total)

Googam, Son of Goom

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Googam; Mark Langley; Helen Langley; Billy Langley

First Line: There's no place to run!

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Pages: 1

Beware of Googam, Son of Goom!!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

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

First Line: It was because of me that mankind encountered Goom!

Synopsis: Goom leaves an offspring in a cave to complete his conquest, and he comes across the family of the scientist who was responsible for his father's defeat. Googam is defeated when the scientist's son challenges him to a game of tag and runs off towards a pool of quicksand and then climbs a tree. When Googam sees the quicksand he mistakenly assumes that it is only mud since the boy must have run across it. Googam only sees the boy hiding in the tree as he sinks into the quicksand.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Job Number: V-155

Notes: Narrated in the first person. Goom and the Langleys last appear in issue #15 (March 1961). Googam next appears in Marvel Monsters: Fin Fang 4 (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (December 2005). Billy Langley next appears as an adult in Marvel Monsters: From the Files of Ulysses Bloodstone and the Monster Hunters (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (November 2005). Story is pages 3-7, 10 of comic (pages numbered 1 to 6).

The Bridge

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: espionage, occult

Character(s): Dr. Title; Douglas Jenks

First Line: A babble of strange voices welled around Dr. Title's ears as he wandered along the...

Synopsis: A government agent retrieves a classified microfilm stolen to be given to enemy agents, and is helped by a magic bridge.

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Pages: 2

Job Number: J-707

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

Googam Part 2

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Googam; Mark Langley; Helen Langley; Billy Langley

First Line: With each passing day, Googam grew more menacing--more frightening!

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Pages: 6

Notes: Story is pages 11-14, 16-18 of comic (pages numbered 7 to 13). The last page includes a promo tag for a possibly return of Googam: "Will Googam return?? What Dear Reader, do you think??".

There Is Something Strange about Mister Jones!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Freddy Sykes; Davy Jones

First Line: Fog blankets the waterfront...

Synopsis: A thug hears a man say that he has a fortune in his locker. He attacks him and tries to make him lead him there. His victim is Davy Jones, and he shows the thief his locker by drowning him.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-156

Notes: Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

What Lurks in the Mountain?

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Writer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

First Line: The Communists are cruel masters in a recently invaded land!

Synopsis: A communist general demands that the lama tell him of the alien space ship that has landed for repairs. At first the lama refuses to allow the aliens to be conquered by the communists, but he relents after the general threatens to execute all the peasants. The soldiers march off to the mountain the lama has indicated, but after a fruitless search they conclude the lama must have been lying. Suddenly, the mountain begins to shake violently and the soldiers realize too late as it blasts off that the mountain was the space ship.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-157

Notes: This story is most likely meant to be set in Tibet. One of the aliens imagined by soldiers looks much like the later Ditko creation the Mindless Ones. Alterations in art are apparent on page two, panels 1, 3 and 5 (the villain was originally holding a gun or a whip); and page 3, panel 1, where the entire panel is redrawn, possibly by Sol Brodsky. Changes were likely made at the request of the Comics Code Authority. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).