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Issue: Tales of Suspense #26

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Publication Date: February 1962

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Issues: #26 of 99 Issues (166 Printings)

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Variant: UK Cover Price

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

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Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications Inc.

On Sale Date: 11/09/1961

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN:

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Price: 9.0 pence GBQ 0-0-9

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
6 (5 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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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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Format

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

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3 Tales of Suspense #26 [U.S. Cover Price]

Tales of Suspense #26 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (6 total)

The Thing That Crawled by Night!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

First Line: Help!! Help us!!

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Pages: 1

It Crawls by Night!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Job Number: V-478

Notes: The last page includes an advertisement for the Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Kirby.

Music Master

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Job Number: G-804

Notes: Text story with illustration.

Never Trust a Martian

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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.

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Pages: 6

Job Number: V-479 ?

Seven Long Years

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-480

The Face!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-481

Notes: The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Kirby.