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Issue: Tales of Suspense #26
Publication Date: February 1962
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Issues: #26 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: 11/09/1961
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newsstands in November 1961 (November 9 according to Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website, November 21 according to Bob Bailey). 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 B934596.
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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 In9
Disclose Reprinted From1
reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images3
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
Original Cover Art
Inks over pencils
Interior Page
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
Splash page
 
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The Thing That Crawled by Night!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
First Line: Help!! Help us!!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as Tales of Suspense #26 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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It Crawls by Night!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Jed Hanson; Bobby Hanson; Ann Hanson; Fred; Tommy; Spot (dog)
First Line: Most men work for themselves, but there are other...
Synopsis: A farmer develops a plant that grows so quickly at night that it becomes a menace to all objects around it by crushing and tossing them. The farmer feels he is done for as he runs to hide behind a meteorite that fell from the sky earlier in the day, but as the plant touches the rock, it begins to shrivel and die. The farmer and his son along with the neighbors quickly use tools to break up the meteor and apply it to the plant thus saving themselves.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFear #8 published June 1972
as It Crawls By Night! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as It Crawls By Night! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: V-478
Disclose Notes: The last page includes an advertisement for the Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Kirby.
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Music Master

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Joe; Gus; Angelo
First Line: Joe was one of the regulars with the popular Rhythm Makers orchestra.
Synopsis: A struggling band takes on a poor but talented young harp player who turns out to be a young angel studying on Earth.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as Music Master [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #39 published October 1955
was Music Master [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: G-804
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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Never Trust a Martian

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: Observe this hideous creature!
Synopsis: Communist spies plan to fake a Martian invasion, but they are abducted and killed by the real Martians, afraid that their cover will be blown.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFear #8 published June 1972
as Never Trust a Martian! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as Never Trust a Martian! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-479 ?
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Seven Long Years

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, occult
Character(s): Vince Jordan
First Line: Vince Jordan is a racketeer!
Synopsis: A racketeer breaks a mirror and gives up crime for seven years, only to break another mirror in his first robbery and be caught and sentenced to seven years.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as Seven Long Years [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-480
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The Face!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
First Line: India! Land of mystery, land of enchantment, land of...
Synopsis: A thief steals a ruby from an Indian Lama's temple and finds himself cursed to see the Lama's face everywhere he goes. He tries to get out of the country by train, but still finds himself pursued by the face. Panicked, he pulls the emergency stop cord on the train and leaps out. Unfortunately for him, the place he chose to stop the train happened to be just as it was crossing a high trestle bridge.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFear #8 published June 1972
as The Face! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as The Face! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-481
Disclose Notes: The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Kirby.

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