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Issue: Tales of Suspense #18

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Publication Date: June 1961

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Issues: #18 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.

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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 #18 [U.S. Cover Price]

Tales of Suspense #18 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (6 total)

Kraa the Unhuman!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Kraa

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Pages: 1

Kraa the Unhuman Part 1

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Kraa (introduction, origin); Wabuzi tribesmen

First Line: In almost every man's life there is a fateful turning point!

Synopsis: An American teacher investigates the mysterious statues made by one tribe in Africa, and finds that they worship a native mutated into a monster by a Soviet atomic test. The teacher soothes the man's pain with ointment, but before the American can get him to a hospital he dies protecting his helper from a python.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Job Number: V-178

Notes: Narrated in the first person. Kraa next appears in Nick Fury's Howling Commandos (Marvel, 2005 series) #6 (May 2006). Story is pages 3-7, 10 of comic (pages numbered 1 to 6).

The Money Tree

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Billy Anderson; Tom Anderson; Amy Anderson

First Line: All was not as peaceful as it seemed in the Anderson household.

Synopsis: A young boy's father scoffs when his son tries to grow a money tree, but the world is astonished when he succeeds.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Job Number: G-977

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

Kraa! Part 2

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Kraa; Wabuzi tribesmen

First Line: Behold, mortal--you are in my power!

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Job Number: V-178

Notes: Story is pages 11-14, 16-18 of comic (pages numbered 7 to 13).

In "Kraa the Unhuman" Part 1, the tribesmen are referred to as the Wabuzi; in Part 2, the tribesmen are called the Wambuzi.

The Mysterious Mr. P!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Pied Piper; Brigitte; Igor

First Line: It's evening... We're at the rear of a theater...

Synopsis: A mysterious but famous clarinetist is trapped by communists and pressed to become a propaganda mouthpiece. Instead he leads the dictators into the sky, revealing himself as the Pied Piper.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-180

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

Enter....the Robot!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Max Garr; Mr. Kellen

First Line: In a lonely mining town back east, the deep, dark coal shafts are...

Synopsis: A mine foreman is concerned that a new robot may take his job, so he scrambles the wires in its control panel. When a cave-in occurs, the men outside contact the foreman by radio and tell him that the robot was not built to work in the mine, but as a safety measure. All he has to do to escape the collapsed tunnel is turn the robot on, but since he has sabotaged the robot's wiring, all he can do is desperately attempt to find the right connections by accident until his air gives out.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-179

Notes: Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).