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Issue: Tales of Suspense #20
Publication Date: August 1961
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Issues: #20 of 99 Issues (166 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: MCView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/09/1961
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: Distributed to newsstands in May 1961. 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.
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 B903153.
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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 Reprinted In15
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
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Colossus Lives Again!!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Colossus [later called "It, the Living Colossus"]
First Line: Stop him!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #18 published January 1964
as Colossus Lives Again!! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #25 published September 1973
as Colossus Lives Again!! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #153 published January 1976
as Colossus Lives Again!! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #191 published January 1981
as Colossus Lives Again!! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2008
as Tales of Suspense #20 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Colossus Lives Again [Part 1]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Colossus [later called "It, the Living Colossus"] (also in flashback); Crab-Creatures of Cancrius III (also in flashback); Judy; Frank
First Line: Introduction: The Colossus, world's largest and strongest statue, was built by the iron curtain nations as a symbol of...
Synopsis: The crab-creatures of Cancrius III come back to try to take over the earth and begin by taking control of Colossus again. Bob O'Bryan, a scenery designer, comes up with the idea of creating a plaster of paris creature to trick the crab-creatures into taking over. When the crab-creatures foolishly take it over Bob blows it up, destroying them.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #25 published September 1973
as Colossus Lives Again [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 1
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #191 published January 1981
as Colossus Lives Again [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 1
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2008
as Colossus Lives Again [, Part 1] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-250
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. Colossus last appears in issue #14 (February 1961). Colossus, Bob O'Bryan, Diane Cummings and Grant Marshall all appear next in Astonishing Tales (Marvel, 1970 series) #21 (December 1973). George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index credits Stan Lee as sole writer. Story is pages 3-7, 10 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 6).
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Weather Man

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Chuck; Harry Davis; Dr. Ramsay; Kennedy
First Line: There was trouble in the air.
Synopsis: The weather reporter at a newspaper realizes that the weather is being manipulated somehow in an effort to destroy Earth's crops and helps the government stop the attack.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2008
as Weather Man [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales #139 published October 1955
was Weather Man [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: G-931
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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[Colossus Lives Again], Part Two!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Colossus [later called "It, the Living Colossus"]; Bob O'Bryan (introduction, last name not given); Diane Cummings (introduction); Grant Marshall (introduction); Crab-Creatures of Cancrius III (destroyed); Charlie; Ben
First Line: It's a giant statue!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #25 published September 1973
as Colossus Lives Again [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 2
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #191 published January 1981
as Colossus Lives Again [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 2
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2008
as [Colossus Lives Again], Part 2 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: V-250
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 11-14, 16-18 of comic (pages of story numbered 7 to 13)
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The Rocking Horse

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Hamim; Hamim's mother; Hamim's father
First Line: The year was 1961... A year when the rich nations of Earth offered help to...
Synopsis: A lame boy in a poor house asks for a rocking horse from charity, enraging his parents. When their house is destroyed in an earthquake the horse saves the boy, showing the value of love.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #200 published January 1982
as The Rocking Horse [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2008
as The Rocking Horse [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-251
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4, last page not numbered).
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The Bomb

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: Behold!! A strange object, making a sudden, dramatic appearance as it plunges earthward!
Synopsis: A threatening object that appears to be a bomb drops from the sky and lands in New York city. The object even emits ticking sounds that lead people to believe they are in imminent danger and so the city the evacuated. The military cordons off the object and just waits for its detonation. Eventually the ticking stops and it rises into the air and disappears. It was recalled to its planet of origin because no living thing touched it in response to its signals, and its makers assume Earth is barren of life, so they send their gift package off to another world.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2008
as The Bomb [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-249
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4, last page not numbered).

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