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Issue: Tales of Suspense #4
Publication Date: July 1959
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Issues: #4 of 99 Issues (166 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Male Publishing Corp.
On Sale Date: 03/03/1959
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in March 1959. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements (pages 2, 9, 15, 19, 25, 27, 33-36 of comic including inside front cover, inside back cover and back cover); pages of comic not numbered.
On sale date as given in the copyright application as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, January-June 1959, page 156, registration number B768626.
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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
Format Notes:  
Disclose Reprinted In8
Disclose Reprinted From1
reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Adult Image
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One of Us Is a Martian!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Geroko
First Line: Blast off!!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2006
as Tales of Suspense #4 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Invisible Army

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Hendrik Muir; Igor Zetaxas
First Line: They would be the most powerful and insidious force in the world!
Synopsis: A scientist is forced to work for a dictator but, instead of creating an invisibility ray as ordered, creates a teleportation ray that banishes his top officers and allows a revolution.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2006
as The Invisible Army [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the second person. Story is pages 3-7 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4, last page not numbered).
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Snowstorm

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Dawson; Mr. Manfredy
Synopsis: A hiker lost in the snow meets a scientist who discovered how to transform other metals into gold but lives in isolation so his discovery will not cause turmoil.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2006
as Snowstorm [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #47 published September 1956
was Snowstorm [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: J-866
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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One of Our Spacemen Is Missing!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Lester Wells; Jim Stack; Ralph; Fred; Bob
Synopsis: A space explorer ignores his partner's caution and leads a party out into a seemingly safe world. They all disappear, captured by intelligent trees, and the more cautious explorer rescues them.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2006
as One of Our Spacemen Is Missing! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-270
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The Voice of Doom!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Fred Sanders
Synopsis: A ham radio operator believes he is receiving reports of an extraterrestrial battle, but he is actually receiving the thought waves of ants.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2006
as The Voice of Doom! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: T-278
Disclose Notes: This story was retold as in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #60 (Septemeber 1960) as "I Found the Things From Nowhere", drawn by Jack Kirby.
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Beware of the...Robots!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Joe Hughes
First Line: His name was Joe Hughes and he worked on the assembly line in a...
Synopsis: A man writes anti-robot articles about his replacement at a factory by a robot. He becomes a famous writer, and realizes that the robot actually freed him to pursue his true calling.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2006
as Beware of the...Robots! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: T-275
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 21-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4).
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One of Us Is a Martian!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Dave Oren; Geroko; Claire
First Line: Man's greatest venture was in the making, and ace rocket pilot Dave Oren felt the...
Synopsis: A Martian spy is sent to sabotage a human rocket, but he destroys a toy instead, since Martians are only an inch tall.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2006
as One of Us Is a Martian! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDer unglaubliche Hulk #3 published ?
as Wo steckt der Marsmensch? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-263
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

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