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Issue: Tales of Suspense #13

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Publication Date: January 1961

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Issues: #13 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: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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 #13 [U.S. Cover Price]

Tales of Suspense #13 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (6 total)

Elektro!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Elektro

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Pages: 1

Elektro! He Held a World in His Iron Grip!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Elektro (introduction, origin); Wilbur Poole; Charlie

First Line: Cringe, mortals!

Synopsis: A scientist creates a computer so sophisticated that it can out think human beings. It hypnotizes the scientist into building it a huge robot body so that it can move and threaten human cities to conquer them. As it gets further from the scientist, the hypnosis fades, and the scientist regains his own will. He rushes Elektro, and enters the robot frame from a small door in its heel, and removes the power source, thus saving humanity.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Job Number: T-970

Notes: Narrated in the third person. Elektro next appears in Marvel Monsters: Fin Fang 4 (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (December 2005). Story is pages 3-7, 10-11 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 7).

The Missing Film

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: espionage, occult

Character(s): Dr. Title; Douglas Jenks

First Line: A babble of strange voices welled around Dr. Title's ears as he...

Synopsis: A government agent retrieves a classified microfilm stolen to be given to enemy agents, and is helped by a magic bridge.

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Pages: 2

Job Number: J-707

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

The Demon in the Dungeon!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

First Line: It was last summer...

Synopsis: A novelist rents a castle in Transylvania, where the locals believe a demon lives. He discovers that the creature is a lost alien child, and its parents cure his limp as a reward for helping it get home.

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Pages: 6

Job Number: T-964

Notes: Story is pages 12-14, 16-18 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 6).

I Lived a Million Years!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

First Line: The scene is inside a palace in a remote Asiatic province...

Synopsis: An Asian tyrant bleeds his subjects dry to build a suspended animation machine and avoid nuclear war. He sleeps for a million years, but when he emerges humanity has abandoned Earth and he faces a harsh and primitive world.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: T-954

Notes: This is a retelling of "The Man In the Iron Box!" drawn by Carl Burgos from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #69 (June 1959). Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

When the Earth Vanished!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Goloks (extraterrestrials)

First Line: On a planet far from Earth, a test is being completed...

Synopsis: Tiny alien invaders decide to detonate their ultimate bomb thinking that unobserved Earthlings have gone into hiding to avoid their invasion force and end up blowing up an Earth boy's ping pong ball and themselves as they are caught in the aftershocks of the blast.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: T-981

Notes: Narrated in the third person. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (first page of story not numbered, then pages numbered 2 to 5).