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Issue: Tales of Suspense #38
Publication Date: February 1963
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Issues: #38 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: 11/08/1962
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 5 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newsstands in November 1962. 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 1962, page 429, registration number B6029.
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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 In8
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images2
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Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Title Page
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The Teen-Ager Who Ruled the World!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Bill Turner
First Line: How would you like to have your own personal genie?
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #46 published January 1966
as The Teen-Ager Who Ruled the World! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #4 [Regular Edition] published September 2012
as Tales of Suspense #38 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Planets #8 published ?
as The Teen-Ager Who Ruled the World! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Teen-Ager Who Ruled the World!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Bill Turner; Miss Parker; Joe; unnamed genie; John; Freddie
First Line: Behold the awesome genie!
Synopsis: An arrogant teen-ager finds a genie's lamp and tries to make the world perfect, but finds that all his wishes have unexpected results.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #4 [Regular Edition] published September 2012
as The Teen-Ager Who Ruled the World! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
Job Number: X-14
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We Can't All Be Human!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Henry Mathews; Frank; Sgt. Ogg
First Line: Out of the unending cosmic darkness comes an alien spaceship...
Synopsis: Seemingly friendly aliens arrive on Earth, seeking refuge from pirates, but a philosophy student figures out that the first visitors are the pirates, and disguised themselves to appear pleasant to humans.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTomb of Darkness #16 [unnamed variant] published September 1975
as We Can't All Be Human! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #4 [Regular Edition] published September 2012
as We Can't All Be Human! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Blueprint for Victory

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): LtC. Cam Westover; Maj. Franks; Cpt. Bill Trayne; Gen. von Kretz
First Line: The Rhine and its ruined bridges lay thirty miles behind and the...
Synopsis: A cunning spy infiltrates German HQ with a phoney blueprint as bait and paralyzes communications before a major US assault.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #4 [Regular Edition] published September 2012
as Blueprint for Victory [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagMarines in Battle #6 published June 1955
was Blueprint For Victory [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: [G-60]
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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The Man in the Mirror!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Silas Haggle; J.J. Jones; Smedley
First Line: What is a mirror?
Synopsis: A millionaire buys an enchanted mirror that allows him to wish any person he dislikes to be trapped inside of it. He wishes dozens of people into the mirror until he is contacted by agents of the IRS who wish to audit his books. He briefly considers wishing them into the mirror, but realizes that the government would just send more, so he decides to wish that no one will ever bother him again. He gets his wish, as he finds that all the people who were trapped in the mirror have been released and now he is its sole prisoner.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #4 [Regular Edition] published September 2012
as The Man in the Mirror! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5

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