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Issue: Tales of Suspense #29
Publication Date: May 1962
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Issues: #29 of 99 Issues (166 Printings)
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Is Variant Variant: UK Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
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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)
7 (5 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
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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
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The Martian Who Stole a City!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
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Pages: 1
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The Martian Who Stole a City!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Bill Gordon; Bobby Carter; Mr. Carter; Mrs. Carter
First Line: The first person it happens to is Bill Gordon!
Synopsis: A Martian steals a city piece by piece, until a young boy figures out that it is vulnerable to light.
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Pages: 7
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Mystery Mansion

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Sam Catlett; Caspar; Ben Rump; Bill Rump
First Line: There was something peculiar about the old Catlett estate.
Synopsis: A local millionaire secludes himself from his old bowling buddies as he becomes wealthier, but they discover that he misses them so much that he has invented a robotic bowling alley.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1.75
Job Number: H-396
Disclose Notes: The first page is printed between the pages of "The Martian Who Stole a City!", while the second page is printed between "It Was Only a Simple Barber Shop...Or Was It??!" and "The Thing In the Locked Room!". The last page is split with the statement of ownership.
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Nothing Can Save Us!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Capt. Rick Marshall
First Line: The year is 2088!
Synopsis: Trapped on a small planet a group of space pilots almost kill a space dragon out of fear until they realize that it protects the planet from runaway asteroids.
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Pages: 6
Job Number: V-615
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It Was Only a Simple Barber Shop...or Was It??!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Muggsy Bogar; Joe the Barber; Bill
First Line: Muggsy Bogar is a fellow who is very much in demand, as you can see...
Synopsis: Muggsy Bogar is a crook on the run. A mysterious figure instructs him to hide in a nearby barbershop. He goes in and the barber hides him forever.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko.
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Statement Required by the Act of August 24, 1912, as Amended by the Acts of March 3, 1933, July 2, 1946 and June 11, 1960 (74 Stat. 208)

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.25
Disclose Notes: Average circulation per issue October 1960–September 1961 (issues #26–36, despite monthly cover dates): 184,635. This shares the last page of "Mystery Mansion".
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The Thing in the Locked Room!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Prince Zemu
First Line: Time is running out!
Synopsis: Prince Zemu takes a strange painting as part of his booty, only to discover it saps his life and youth from him.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: V-616

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