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Issue: Tales of Suspense #33
Publication Date: September 1962
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Issues: #33 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: 06/02/1962
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in June 1962. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.
On sale date as given in the copyright application as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, January-June 1962, page 175, registration number B975401.
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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:  
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Disclose Reprinted In8
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images1
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Original Artwork
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I was a Prisoner of the...Chamber of Fear!!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Mike Mathews; Hiram Cragmoor
First Line: Come back, Mathews!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #27 published January 1965
as I Was a Prisoner of the...Chamber of Fear!! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #4 [Regular Edition] published September 2012
as Tales of Suspense #33 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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I was Trapped in the Chamber of Fear!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Mike Mathews; Hiram Cragmoor; Vera Vandeer; Chuck Dawson
First Line: Our story starts at the "Tales of Suspense" editorial office!
Synopsis: A man tries to pitch to Stan Lee the story of a blackmailer who becomes trapped within a mystic ruby as an agent of Fate to direct recently departed souls to their destination. Stan rejects the story as too outlandish even for Tales of Suspense and the man leaves the office. Outside, the man mutters to himself that his secret is safe since even if the blackmailer escapes the ruby no one will believe him and then he blinks out of existence.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFantasy Masterpieces #6 published December 1966
as I Was Trapped in the Chamber of Fear! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #4 [Regular Edition] published September 2012
as I Was Trapped in the Chamber of Fear! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Last page of story shows a poster of The Hulk on the wall of Stan Lee's office, considered by some to be the first Hulk crossover/cameo.
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Bird Talk

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Tony Tipple; Skeets Mulligan; Toodles Murphy; Mrs. Tipple; Small Talk (parakeet); Mrs. Murphy
First Line: All the kids on the block were getting parakeets.
Synopsis: A meeting with a strange man gives a boy an unusual way of getting a pet bird, talking to birds.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #4 [Regular Edition] published September 2012
as Bird Talk [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Unknown Worlds #50 published October 1956
was Bird Talk [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: [K-424]
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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The Mystery of the Tax Collector from Space!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Harry Grubb [Orgg]
First Line: Every city has its down-and-outers!
Synopsis: A failed actor finds a spaceship with a dead pilot and uses it in an attempt to con the authorities. The ship is actually a decoy, and is retrieved by the aliens to get a human specimen for their zoo.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #4 [Regular Edition] published September 2012
as The Mystery of the Tax Collector from Space! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-806
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The Secret of the Mirage

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Robert Jones; Sheikh Abdul Ben Hassi
First Line: Behold! I am the desert!
Synopsis: A doctor goes to the Middle East to treat the local people. He is attacked by bandits for curing the local sheikh, and chased into a desert mirage, which takes him to a utopian world. Only the worthy may enter, and the bandits chase the mirage through the desert until death.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #4 [Regular Edition] published September 2012
as The Secret of the Mirage [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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Where Is the Wommelly?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Wommellies (extraterrestrials)
First Line: Earth had one problem to solve if it was ever to...
Synopsis: An alien armada attempts to conquer Earth, but is driven off. One of the ships is damaged and forced to land on Earth, its pilot an outcast forever on the planet. The military soldiers are convinced they will capture the alien at any moment since it must be of monstrous appearance. As they walk past a nondescript gentlemen reading a newspaper, he says softly "It's a shame we just didn't land secretly and take over. These earthlings are so conceited that it would never occur to them that someone else would look just like them."
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #4 [Regular Edition] published September 2012
as Where Is the Wommelly? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5

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