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Issue: Tales of Suspense #15
Publication Date: March 1961
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Issues: #15 of 99 Issues (166 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/27/1960
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 October 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 B872495.
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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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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
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Behold...Goom!...The Thing from Planet X!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Goom
First Line: Get back!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2008
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]cover
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2008
as Tales of Suspense #15 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Goom! The Thing from Planet X!, Part 1

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Goom (introduction, origin); Mark Langley (introduction); Helen Langley (introduction)
First Line: I can still remember the mocking laughter, when I first spoke of my theory!
Synopsis: After attracting the hostile attention of Goom of Planet X, a scientist realizes that any civilization possessing such advanced technology must be benevolent and that his radar transmissions must have been intercepted by a criminal. He rebroadcasts to Planet X, and the Earth officials plan to execute him as a traitor summoning a full invasion fleet from Planet X, when the representatives from Planet X arrive and stop the execution and take Goom into their custody and leave the planet.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagGiant-Size Man-Thing #1 published August 1974
as Goom! The Thing from Planet X! [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 1
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2008
as Goom! The Thing from Planet X!, Part 1 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-87
Disclose Notes: Goom's next published appearance is in Incredible Hulk Annual #6, November 1976; while his next chronological appearance is in Marvel Monsters: Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (December 2005); he also appeared in Nick Fury's Howling Commandos (Marvel, 2005 series). The speech of the scientist hero at the end is similar to many others in Marvel books at this time, including Reed Richards' speech in Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #24 (March 1964). Story is pages 3-7, 10 of comic (pages numbered 1 to 6).
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Masquerade

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Tommy; Kitty Blake; Old King Cole
First Line: Tommy used to be the fellow from Missouri...
Synopsis: A man with no imagination is invited to a costume party by his girlfriend, but stumbles across real fairy-tale folk instead.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2008
as Masquerade [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Unknown Worlds #38 published October 1955
was Masquerade [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: G-750
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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Goom, Part 2

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Goom; Mark Langley; Helen Langley
First Line: Like a giant juggernaut the oppressor Goom razed the forest until...
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagGiant-Size Man-Thing #1 published August 1974
as Goom! The Thing from Planet X! [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 2
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2008
as [Goom! The Thing from Planet X!], Part 2: Goom [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: V-87
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 11-14, 16-18 of comic (pages numbered 7 to 13).
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I Am the Living Ghost!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
First Line: For the last seven hundred years I have been living in Blackhorn Castle, here on the desolate moors!
Synopsis: A man enters a castle determined to prove that there are no ghosts, but the events he experiences convince him that the castle is haunted, and so he flees. It turns out that the castle does not contain any ghosts, but is possessed by animated suits of armor and living stone gargoyles.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagGiant-Size Dracula #4 published March 1975
as I Am the Living Ghost! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2008
as I Am the Living Ghost! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Narrated by one of the animated beings. Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
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Moomboo!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Moomboo
First Line: You shut your eyes... You raise your arms...
Synopsis: A shaman cons his tribe, but when a seemingly magic idol appears he attacks it and it vanishes. It was an extra-dimensional scout, and its experience decides its people not to contact Earth.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagJames Bond #19/[1972] published April 1972
as Moomboos magi [Story on Interior Page(s)]"Moomboo!"
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #149 published January 1974
as Moomboo! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #216 published January 1987
as Moomboo! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2008
as Moomboo! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-56
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the second person to the shaman. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

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