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Issue: Tales of Suspense #44

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Publication Date: August 1963

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Issues: #44 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: 05/09/1963

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)
5 (4 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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Notes: The on-sale date is the publication date reported in U. S. Copyright Office filings.

Distributed to newsstands in May 1963. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.

Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

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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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Tales of Suspense #44 [U.S. Cover Price]

Tales of Suspense #44 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (5 total)

The Mad Pharoah!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Cleopatra VII

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Pages: 1

Notes: The unaltered version of this cover was used on Creepy Worlds #68.

Pharaoh misspelled as "pharoah" on the cover (and throughout the story).

The Mad Pharoah!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Mad Pharoah [sic] [Hatap] (introduction); Cleopatra VII; Paul (archeologist)

First Line: This is incredible!

Synopsis: After waking up from a 2000 years long sleep, Hatap, the Mad Pharoah [sic], brings Tony Stark in the past to resume his war against Cleopatra. Stark helps Cleopatra defeat Hatap as Iron Man.

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Pages: 13

Job Number: X-229

Notes: Pharaoh misspelled as "pharoah" throughout the story (and on the cover).

The Tree

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

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Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Wally Hadley; Mr. Hadley; Mrs. Hadley

First Line: Living far out in the country was going to be a lot of fun, young Wally decided.

Synopsis: When a family moves to a house in the country their son finds a gnarled little tree on their land that grants wishes.

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Pages: 2

Job Number: K-435

Notes: Text story with illustration.

One of Us Must Die!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Inker(s): Paul Reinman [as P. Reinman]

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Artie Simek [as A. Simek]

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Darius Wentworth

First Line: I've had to make lots of tough decisions since I became a space jockey, but the...

Synopsis: When a space passenger yacht is damaged, one of the passengers must be sacrificed for the others to survive. The captain lies in order to discover which is the most selfish and trick that person into making the sacrifice.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: X-312

Notes: Perhaps with an oxygen shortage the captain shouldn't be smoking a pipe.

I Come From the Sky!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Serge Plotski

First Line: This is the startling tale of a man who almost became a god!

Synopsis: A communist agent in Africa is supplying guns and explosives to tribesmen to encourage uprisings. When flying his plane to another group, he gets struck by lightning and ditches his plane near an unknown tribe. These natives are like the ones in King Kong who have built a huge wall to keep out some horrible beast. The agent uses his lighter and last bullet to convince them he is a sky-god, but they deposit him outside the wall, alone and unarmed, with instructions to use his divine powers to defeat their huge beast.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: X-313