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Issue: Tales of Suspense #22
Publication Date: October 1961
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Issues: #22 of 99 Issues (166 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: MCView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: 07/11/1961
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: 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, July-December 1961, page 365, registration number B912664.
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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 Variants2
Disclose Reprinted In13
Disclose Reprinted From1
reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Beware of Bruttu!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Bruttu [Howard Lindley]
First Line: Look!! Ahead in the tunnel!!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as Tales of Suspense #22 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Beware of...Bruttu [, Part 1]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Bruttu [Howard Lindley]; Anne Benson
First Line: The whole fantastic thing never would have occurred if I hadn't been built so small!
Synopsis: An often bullied scientist accidentally transforms himself into a monster, and is attacked when he can’t make himself understood. In his new form he discovers that the girl he’d thought out of his league really loves him, and manages to make himself human again.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFantasy Masterpieces #3 published June 1966
as Bruttu [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 1
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #18 published August 1972
as Beware of…Bruttu [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 1
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as Beware of...Bruttu [, Part 1] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-333
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. Story is pages 3-7, 10 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 6).
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Mystery Trip

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Tommy Pidgeon; Goober Jones; Rosie; Uncle Pete
First Line: There was much excitement in the Pidgeon household the week that Uncle Pete was...
Synopsis: Tommy's uncle returns from a space journey needing to re-learn how to walk on earth instead of floating.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as Mystery Trip [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #46 published August 1956
was Mystery Trip [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-266
Disclose Notes: Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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[Beware of...Bruttu], Part 2: Bruttu

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Bruttu [Howard Lindley]; Anne Benson
First Line: Stop! Calm yourselves!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFantasy Masterpieces #3 published June 1966
as Bruttu [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 2
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #18 published August 1972
as Beware of…Bruttu [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 2
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as [Beware of...Bruttu], Part 2: Bruttu [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: V-333
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 11-14, 16-18 of comic (pages of story numbered 7 to 13).
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Only One Is Human!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Robert Brown; John Baxter; Henry Sloan; Fred Winthrop
First Line: It was the first meeting of Martians and humans, as I led the first human landing on Mars!
Synopsis: A human unit on Mars realises that a disguised Martian is in their midst, they cannot tell the imposter and the real human apart, until a false piece of bad news makes the real human weep, uncovering the Martian.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreatures on the Loose #20 published November 1972
as Only One Is Human! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as Only One Is Human! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
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The Anatomy of a Nightmare!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: The creature's eyes were like two fiery orbs, burning into mine!
Synopsis: A science fiction writer is stuck, so he takes some pills, hoping a nightmare will inspire him. He dreams of horrible red-eyed aliens, but is disappointed, since that's only his own dull world.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #18 published August 1972
as The Anatomy of a Nightmare! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAstounding Stories #130 published January 1978
as The Anatomy of a Nightmare! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as The Anatomy of a Nightmare! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-309
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. This story is retold in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #100 (January 1964) as "The Unreal!" by Stan Lee and Larry Lieber. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

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