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Issue: Tales of Suspense #24

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Publication Date: December 1961

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Issues: #24 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: none

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 #24 [U.S. Cover Price]

3 Tales of Suspense #24 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (6 total)

Insect Man!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Mason

First Line: We have caught him!!

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Pages: 1

The Insect Man

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Mason; Tabor (pet of the telepathic insect)

First Line: Science and fantasy! Each day they become more alike!

Synopsis: A soldier is placed underground in a capsule to test the effects of isolation. He is attacked by a telepathic insect. They blame the experience on stress, but a piece of the insect is on the pod.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Job Number: V-397

Notes: This story is an altered retelling of "A Monster Waits Outside!!" drawn by Steve Ditko from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #12 (October 1960). Story is pages 3-7, 10-11 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 7).

Mystery Pupil

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Colin; Mr. Plum; Gertrude

Synopsis: A dull teacher earns accolades by accidentally helping capture a Martian criminal.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Job Number: K-382

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

Beware...the Ticking Clocks!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): King Linus; Claudius Zemu; Klugari

First Line: Many were the mystic powers of ancient monarchs, but no man...

Synopsis: A king is beset by an assassin in the king's clockroom whereupon the assassin is magicked into yet another figurine upon the king's favorite timepiece.

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Pages: 6

Job Number: V-398

Something Lurks in the Fog!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Sam Farrow

First Line: I know you're out there waiting--watching--but you won't get me!

Synopsis: An unrepentant con-man is scared straight when he strays onto a forbidden road and enters a world between life and death.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: V-399

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

Long Live the King!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): King Kim; Queen Sari; Prince Rujak

First Line: Once upon a time there was a tiny kingdom, nestled deep...

Synopsis: A greedy prince marries a dowager queen. He tries to use her sleepwalking to cause her death, but the portrait of her husband calls out to warn her, and ghostly hands push the prince to his death.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-390

Notes: Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5). The last page includes a promo tag "Like this type of story? Then don't miss "AMAZING ADULT FANTASY" comics -- On sale NOW!" for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko. The same promo tag appears in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #75-82, Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #92-99, Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #24-32 and Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #26-33.