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Issue: Tales of Suspense #27
Publication Date: March 1962
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Issues: #27 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: 12/12/1961
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 December 1961 (December 12 according to Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website, December 19 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 B942378.
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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 In9
Disclose Reprinted From1
reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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When Oog Lives Again!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Oog
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]cover
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as Tales of Suspense #27 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Oog Lives Again!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Oog; Charlie; Ben
First Line: The Arctic! A vast frozen wasteland...
Synopsis: An alien trapped in ice is freed and mocks the fearful humans as it waits to be rescued. "Invade you? You have nothing we want! We should quarantine you!"
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #20 published December 1972
as Oog Lives Again! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as Oog Lives Again! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: V-515
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From Outer Space

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Jonathan Ditmar
First Line: It had been expected for a long time, so it wasn't too much of a...
Synopsis: When hostile aliens come to Earth of the future they are persuaded not to enslave humanity because of Earth's music.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as From Outer Space [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagMystery Tales #26 published February 1955
was From Outer Space [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: G-715
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On the Trail of the Witch!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Inspector Koraz
First Line: In a dark, dank cave somewhere in the lonely hills of...
Synopsis: A witch is fearful of being pursued by a witch-hunter, but it turns out her fears are groundless as he is also a witch.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagBeware #1 published March 1973
as On the Trail of the Witch! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as On the Trail of the Witch! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-516
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John Doe

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Prof. Blake Burke; John Doe
First Line: Ever since the year 2000, there have been robots on...
Synopsis: An inventor creates a humanoid robot and treats it like a close friend. When the robot sacrifices itself to save him from a bear, his friends realize that the inventor is also a robot.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as John Doe [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-517
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person.
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His Name Was...Merlin!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Joe Cooke [The Great Nero/Merlin the Mystic]; Merlin
First Line: He called himself the Great Nero, but the audience called him a flop!
Synopsis: An untalented magician who takes the name Merlin is visited by the spirit of the real Merlin in the form of a derelict and offers to teach him some tricks. When the man learns Merlin's last trick of completely disappearing, he stiffs Merlin his fee. Merlin tells him that he'll be sorry and is the last to depart the theater after the magician uses his disappearing trick and is never seen again.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #3 [Regular Edition] published August 2010
as His Name Was...Merlin! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: If this story were in Marvel continuity, the Merlin that appears here could be the real Merlin or one of his various imposters.

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