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Issue: Tales of Suspense #13
Publication Date: January 1961
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Issues: #13 of 99 Issues (166 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/29/1960
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newsstands in August 1960. 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. All new stories in this issue are narrated in the first person unless otherwise specified.
On sale date as given in the copyright application as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, July-December 1960, page 345, registration number B861707.
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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:  
Disclose Variants2
Disclose Reprinted In11
Disclose Reprinted From1
reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images1
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Original Artwork
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Elektro!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Elektro
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #22 published July 1973
as Elektro! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2008
as Tales of Suspense #13 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Elektro! He Held a World in His Iron Grip!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #22 published July 1973
as Elektro! He Held a World in His Iron Grip! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2008
as Elektro! He Held a World in His Iron Grip! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: T-970
Disclose 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).
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The Missing Film

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2008
as The Missing Film [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagAdventure into Mystery #7 published May 1957
was The Missing Film [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: J-707
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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The Demon in the Dungeon!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagZombie #8 published January 1961
as The Demon in the Dungeon! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #22 published July 1973
as The Demon in the Dungeon! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2008
as The Demon in the Dungeon! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: T-964
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 12-14, 16-18 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 6).
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I Lived a Million Years!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2008
as I Lived a Million Years! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-954
Disclose 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).
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When the Earth Vanished!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #25 published November 1973
as When the Earth Vanished! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2008
as When the Earth Vanished! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-981
Disclose 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).

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