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Issue: Tales of Suspense #1
Publication Date: January 1959
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Issues: #1 of 99 Issues (166 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Warwick Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/02/1958
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 12, Part 2, No. 2,
Periodicals, July-December 1958, p. 368, registration number 736089.

This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements (pages 2, 9, 15, 19, 25, 27, 33-36 of comic including inside front cover, inside back cover and back cover); pages of comic not numbered.
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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
Format Notes:  
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I Dared to Explore the Unknown Emptiness!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: Back to the ship!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #159 published January 1975
as I Dared to Explore the Unknown Emptiness! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #192 published January 1980
as I Dared to Explore the Unknown Emptiness! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2006
as Tales of Suspense #1 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Monster does not appear in the story within.
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The Strangers from Space!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): General Krenkle; Lieutenant Morrow
First Line: In the year 2000, space had been conquered!
Synopsis: In the future an alien ship arrives and lands at the world capital. The alien’s human form calms hostility and allows peaceful contact. The alien really projected an image to pacify bigotry.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmerica's Greatest Comics #8 published January 2004
as The Strangers from Space! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2006
as The Strangers from Space! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-100
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The Newshound

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Snoop Scooper; Marsha Marlow
Synopsis: A reporter with an uncanny nose and a woman with keen hearing and become the blueprints for a new breed of journalists.
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2006
as The Newshound [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #50 published September 1956
was The Newshound [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-241
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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I Dared Explore the Unknown Emptiness!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Dr. Jonathan Marteens (behind the scenes); Col. Frank Stevens
First Line: The year was 2478... Dr. Jonathan Marteens had just made public his...
Synopsis: In the 25th-century, humans use a new cobalt fuel in their search for a colony world to relieve overpopulation. They find that humans can only flourish on Earth, and should appreciate it more.
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2006
as I Dared Explore the Unknown Emptiness! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-95
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The Day I Left My Body!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Wells; Martin Shaw; Ellen Shaw
First Line: The law had called me a menace to society and locked me away forever!
Synopsis: A prisoner accidentally gains a psychic hold on a lawyer. He forces the lawyer to work constantly on his appeal, but fatigue hurts the lawyer’s oratory and the murderer is sentenced to death.
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2006
as The Day I Left My Body! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-567
Disclose Notes: Oleck script per Martin O'Hearn: http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2019/08/jack-oleck-stories-in-three-atlas-titles.html

Narrated in the first person. Story is pages 16-18, 20 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4).
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He Fled in the Night

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: historical
Character(s): Robinson Crusoe
Synopsis: A restless clerk leaves England for a life at sea, thinking that he will found an empire in the Pacific. Robinson Crusoe, the clerk, is sure his voyage will make his fortune.
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In Content Item: FlagKull, the Destroyer #13 published April 1974
as He Fled in the Night [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2006
as He Fled in the Night [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: T-96
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Prisoner of the Satellites!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Mark Coren; Zak; Ozt
First Line: It all began suddenly--the shower of yellow green meteors hurtling towards Earth!
Synopsis: Aliens launch satellites that shrink objects on Earth in preparation for an invasion, but the humans harness the power of cosmic rays to reverse the effects and the aliens abandon the plan.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2006
as Prisoner of the Satellites! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-107

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