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Issue: Tales of Suspense #34
Publication Date: October 1962
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Issues: #34 of 99 Issues (172 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: 07/10/1962
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: 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 1962, page 429, registration number B982805.
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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 In11
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
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Original Artwork
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Inside the Blue Glass Bottle!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Elias Poole
First Line: What is the secret of the blue-glass bottle?
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #4 [Regular Edition] published January 2012
as Tales of Suspense #34 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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I Found the Girl in the Blue Glass Bottle!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Elias Poole
First Line: Little did I dream that the fantastic female figure within the...
Synopsis: A curio shop owner uses an ancient magic bottle to shrink people, but one of his victims turns the magic of the bottle on him and escapes, as the shop owner shrinks to nothing.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #22 [unnamed variant] published July 1973
as I Found the Girl in the Blue Glass Bottle! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #4 [Regular Edition] published January 2012
as I Found the Girl in the Blue Glass Bottle! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: V-850
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Tricky Travel

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Eli Twiddle; Mr. Hardy; Eli Twiddle's wife
First Line: It was unbelievable to hear Eli Twiddle tell his customers at the...
Synopsis: A travel agent has the ability to travel in his dreams, but eventually he grows out of it.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #4 [Regular Edition] published January 2012
as Tricky Travel [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Unknown Worlds #48 published August 1956
was Tricky Travel [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-19
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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The Forbidden World!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): John; Eric
First Line: We are certain to encounter many problems when we achieve space travel...
Synopsis: A space patrol find an alien world surrounded by a strange mist. They are fired on by the inhabitants and plan to retaliate, but realize too late that they were trying to keep them from the deadly mist surrounding the planet.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagStar Wars Weekly #89 published November 1979
as Forbidden Planet! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #245 published January 1988
as The Forbidden World! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #4 [Regular Edition] published January 2012
as The Forbidden World! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-851
Disclose Notes: The last page advertises the Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #1 (1962).
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The Coming of the Giants!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: The time is a few years in the future!
Synopsis: The humanity of the near future grow proud as they approach space travel, but when alien giants arrive they are only saved from conquest because they are too tiny to notice.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreatures on the Loose #23 published May 1973
as The Coming of the Giants! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #4 [Regular Edition] published January 2012
as The Coming of the Giants! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-852
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Who Am I?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Death
First Line: Suppose you found yourself wandering the streets alone one day, not knowing who you were!
Synopsis: A man finds himself lost in a fog with no idea who he is. He is approached by a stranger who offers to help him through hypnosis. The hypnosis recovers his lost memory and he realizes that he was a circus performer who has died from a fall from the high wire. The stranger is revealed as Death who was delayed from their appointed meeting and is here to usher him into the next world.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #4 [Regular Edition] published January 2012
as Who Am I? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #81 published ?
as Who Am I? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: [V-853]
Disclose Notes: Job number discovered via original artwork.

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