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Issue: Tales of Suspense #25
Publication Date: January 1962
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Issues: #25 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: 09/28/1961
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 September 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.
On sale date as given in the copyright application as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, July-December 1961, page 365, registration number B928097.
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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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The Death of...Monstrollo!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Monstrollo
First Line: Monstrollo was all-powerful!
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as Tales of Suspense #25 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Death of Monstrollo

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Charles Hudson; Monstrollo
First Line: He was Monstrollo!
Synopsis: A movie producer's next film is a sci-fi picture featuring a giant robotic monster. Bad press convinces him to abandon the project but just as he's about to disassemble the robot, an alien invasion fleet lands. He sends the robot lumbering towards them and they ineffectively fire their nerve weapons at it. Next, they try gas, which of course has no effect on the machine either. Panicked, they flee to their saucers resolving never to return. People express their sympathy to the movie producer that all that money was spent with nothing to show for it, but he knows better.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as The Death of Monstrollo! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: V-442
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person.
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The Heat's On

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): John Tyler; Mary Tyler; Bobby Tyler
First Line: The city suffered under the onslaught of the summer's first heat spell.
Synopsis: When a young boy builds a fan to help his family get through a heat wave it brings down the flying saucer that caused the heat.
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as The Heat's On [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #44 published March 1957
was The Heat's On [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: H-366
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustrations. The two pages of this story are not printed consecutively.
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The Unseen

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Jason Wilkes; Jason Wilkes' sister
First Line: You who are mortal cannot see me!
Synopsis: A scientist is contacted by a communist agent who offers him a million dollars for research into an invisibility ray. The man's greed makes him accept treason and he succeeds, but he finds that after testing the ray upon himself, he has become intangible as well and has no way of turning on the switch of the antidote ray.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as The Unseen! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-443
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The Hidden Face

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Wogu
First Line: Somewhere in the vast universe, a galactic...
Synopsis: An alien bigot attempts to preach hate by hiding his face under a hood. When he assaults one of the people he is defaming he flees the police to escape capture. When he attempts to remove the hood, he finds another underneath it. He tries again, and there is still another, always another hood. A policeman shakes his head sadly as he walks away from his cell, the bigot convinced he would never have been captured if not for all these hoods. He continues to remove hood after hood with his hands, but there is nothing there.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as The Hidden Face [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-445
Disclose Notes: This story is a retelling of "Men in Black" by Stan Lee and John Romita, Sr. from Menace (Marvel, 1953 series) #3 (May 1953). Interestingly, the original and prior tellings were not science fiction stories, and featured an ordinary, human, bigot. The distancing device of making the story a science fiction allegory may be a reflection of growing racial tensions.
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The Enchanted Paint

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Hans Lubnik; Bertha
First Line: There were many great artists in the ninteenth century, but...
Synopsis: An untalented painter gains success when a gypsy gives him magic paints, but he becomes obsessed with beauty and abandons his lover. The gypsy casts another spell, making his former love seem beautiful to him.
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as The Enchanted Paint! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-444

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