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Issue: Tales of Suspense #19
Publication Date: July 1961
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Issues: #19 of 99 Issues (166 Printings)
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Is Variant Variant: UK Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
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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: none
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
6 (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 Green Thing!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): The Green Thing
First Line: It is now midnight!
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Pages: 1
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The Green Thing!, Part 1

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): The Green Thing; Ignatius Rex
First Line: Ever since it happened, I've been as nervous--as fearful--as a condemned man!
Synopsis: A botanist invents a serum to magnify the latent intelligence of plants. He tested it on a remote island, but the plant was evil and wanted to conquer the world. The scientist ran from the plant and used the serum on a more advanced plant, which was benevolent and stopped the evil plant.
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Pages: 6
Job Number: V-216
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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Lady Luck

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Lester Ford; Marie Ford; Lady Luck
First Line: Lester counted up all his cards and gave the number to the scorekeeper.
Synopsis: A businessman doesn’t believe in luck, but several beneficial encounters with an old lady change his mind.
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Pages: 2
Job Number: G-377
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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[The Green Thing!], Part 2

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): The Green Thing; Ignatius Rex
First Line: I made a horrible, deadly mistake!
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Pages: 7
Job Number: V-216
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 11-14, 16-18 of comic (pages of story numbered 7 to 13).
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The Haunted Paper!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Nick Rover [Mr. Nicholas]; Olef
First Line: Nick Rover was always just one step ahead of the law!
Synopsis: A criminal skips town and sets up a newspaper as a front. When his typesetter changes the headlines from what they should read into what actually happens in the near future, he realizes he's got a goldmine, but the typesetter refuses to tell him how he can accurately predict the future. The criminal threatens to fire and blacklist the typesetter if he doesn't come clean, and the next headline he sets tells of an accident happening to the newspaper owner. Panicked, he turns himself in to the police so that he will be safe in jail, which is what the typesetter wanted all along.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: V-213
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
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The Coming of Maaboo!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Charlie Wilkes; Maaboo
First Line: Some people call me a soldier of fortune, others more rightly figure me for...
Synopsis: A mercenary hears of a tribe that hoards gold while waiting for the return of a legendary alien. The mercenary poses as the alien and steals the gold, but he is abducted by the real alien.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: V-217
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

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