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Issue: Tales of Suspense #21
Publication Date: September 1961
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Issues: #21 of 99 Issues (166 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: MCView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/08/1961
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 June 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 B907451.
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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 In8
Disclose Reprinted From1
reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images1
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Original Artwork
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This Is...Klagg!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Klagg
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as Tales of Suspense #21 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The unaltered cover was published in the British reprint Spellbound # 40. In this version Klagg is almost completely covered in ink and made to look more like the interior version, with smoke added to the upper left corner. Info per Nick Caputo, May 2016.
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Klagg! His Mission: Destroy Mankind!, Part 1

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Klagg; Philip; Clair; Mrs. Jones; John
First Line: Last year in a radar station behind the Iron Curtain, an unidentified flying object was spotted!
Synopsis: Klagg, an alien who visits Earth, becomes so upset upon learning humanity still wages war that he declares war upon the nations of the Earth. The hero of the story convinces communist agents to pool their forces with the democracies in an effort to present a united front against Klagg. The effort is successful because the fact the various nations were able to set aside their differences and band together convinces Klagg to give up his campaign of destruction and leave Earth.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #20 published March 1973
as Klagg! His Mission: Destroy Mankind! [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 1
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as Klagg!, Part 1 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-289
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 3-7, 10 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 6).
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Sdrawkcab

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Oston Trams; Mrs. Trams; Laer Trams; Mike Ross
First Line: Most people agreed that he was a backward baby.
Synopsis: An extraordiinary child excels at sports and school, but does it all backwards.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as Sdrawkcab [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #58 published May 1957
was Sdrawkcab [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-18
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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Klagg, Part 2

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Klagg; Philip; Clair
First Line: Klagg is entering the town!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #20 published March 1973
as Klagg! His Mission: Destroy Mankind! [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 2
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as Klagg, Part 2 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: V-289
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 11-14, 16-18 of comic (pages of story numbered 7 to 12, last page not numbered).
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Whose Face Is in the Mirror?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Joe Kane
First Line: This particular day started off just like any other for our hero, Joe Kane, office worker...
Synopsis: A man wakes up in the morning and sees a stranger's face in the mirror and then it shatters. He tries looking into another mirror and the same thing happens. He looks into a full length mirror and it happens a third time. He makes his way to work, avoiding mirrors, until he stands before the elevator. When the door opens, the man whose face he has seen is standing inside producing a terror-stricken reaction. Our hero runs away, and the puzzled man leaves the elevator which cable snaps, sending it plunging down the shaft to destruction.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as Whose Face Is in the Mirror? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-288
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The Man from... Tomorrow!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Walter Phelps; Charlie; Marcus
First Line: Hey, Charlie!
Synopsis: A man invents a time machine to travel back to the Roman Empire of 25 A.D. and set himself up as king, but all the present day devices he has brought back with him to prove his claims do not work without electricity, fuel, and broadcasting stations.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as The Man From...Tomorrow! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-290
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. This story is a retelling of "Trapped in Yesterday!" drawn by Carl Burgos in Tales of Suspense #2 (March 1959). Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

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