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Issue: Tales of Suspense #17
Publication Date: May 1961
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Issues: #17 of 99 Issues (172 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: 02/07/1961
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: 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. On sale date as given in the copyright application as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, January-June 1961, page 148, registration number B883742.
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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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Disclose Reprinted In12
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images2
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Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
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Googam, Son of Goom

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
Character(s): Googam; Mark Langley; Helen Langley; Billy Langley
First Line: There's no place to run!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2008
as Tales of Suspense #17 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Beware of Googam, Son of Goom!!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
Character(s): Googam (introduction, origin); Mark Langley; Helen Langley; Billy Langley (introduction); Goom (flashback)
First Line: It was because of me that mankind encountered Goom!
Synopsis: Goom leaves an offspring in a cave to complete his conquest, and he comes across the family of the scientist who was responsible for his father's defeat. Googam is defeated when the scientist's son challenges him to a game of tag and runs off towards a pool of quicksand and then climbs a tree. When Googam sees the quicksand he mistakenly assumes that it is only mud since the boy must have run across it. Googam only sees the boy hiding in the tree as he sinks into the quicksand.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #16 [unnamed variant] published July 1972
as Beware of Googam, Son of Goom!! [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 1
In Content Item: FlagSuper Giant #10 published July 1974
as Beware of Googam, Son of Goom [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 1
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2008
as Beware of Googam, Son of Goom!! [Part 1] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: V-155
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. Goom and the Langleys last appear in issue #15 (March 1961). Googam next appears in Marvel Monsters: Fin Fang 4 (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (December 2005). Billy Langley next appears as an adult in Marvel Monsters: From the Files of Ulysses Bloodstone and the Monster Hunters (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (November 2005). Story is pages 3-7, 10 of comic (pages numbered 1 to 6).
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The Bridge

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage, fantasy, occult
Character(s): Dr. Title; Douglas Jenks
First Line: A babble of strange voices welled around Dr. Title's ears as he wandered along the...
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 Bridge [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagMystery Tales #42 published June 1956
was The Bridge [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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Googam Part 2

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Googam; Mark Langley; Helen Langley; Billy Langley
First Line: With each passing day, Googam grew more menacing--more frightening!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #16 [unnamed variant] published July 1972
as Beware of Googam, Son of Goom!! [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 2
In Content Item: FlagSuper Giant #10 published July 1974
as Beware of Googam, Son of Goom [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 2
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2008
as [Beware of Googam, Son of Goom!!], Part 2: Googam [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 11-14, 16-18 of comic (pages numbered 7 to 13). The last page includes a promo tag for a possibly return of Googam: "Will Googam return?? What Dear Reader, do you think??".
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There Is Something Strange about Mister Jones!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Freddy Sykes; Davy Jones
First Line: Fog blankets the waterfront...
Synopsis: A thug hears a man say that he has a fortune in his locker. He attacks him and tries to make him lead him there. His victim is Davy Jones, and he shows the thief his locker by drowning him.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFear #10 published October 1972
as There Is Something Strange About Mister Jones! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2008
as There Is Something Strange About Mister Jones! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-156
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
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What Lurks in the Mountain?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: The Communists are cruel masters in a recently invaded land!
Synopsis: A communist general demands that the lama tell him of the alien space ship that has landed for repairs. At first the lama refuses to allow the aliens to be conquered by the communists, but he relents after the general threatens to execute all the peasants. The soldiers march off to the mountain the lama has indicated, but after a fruitless search they conclude the lama must have been lying. Suddenly, the mountain begins to shake violently and the soldiers realize too late as it blasts off that the mountain was the space ship.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreatures on the Loose #18 published July 1972
as What Lurks in the Mountain? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2008
as What Lurks in the Mountain? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-157
Disclose Notes: This story is most likely meant to be set in Tibet. One of the aliens imagined by soldiers looks much like the later Ditko creation the Mindless Ones. Alterations in art are apparent on page two, panels 1, 3 and 5 (the villain was originally holding a gun or a whip); and page 3, panel 1, where the entire panel is redrawn, possibly by Sol Brodsky. Changes were likely made at the request of the Comics Code Authority. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

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