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Issue: Tales of Suspense #20

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Publication Date: August 1961

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Issues: #20 of 99 Issues (172 Printings)

Title:

Variant: British

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

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Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

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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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 #20 [unnamed variant]

Tales of Suspense #20 [British]

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Content Items (6 total)

Colossus Lives Again!!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, science fiction

Character(s): Colossus [later called "It, the Living Colossus"]

First Line: Stop him!

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Colossus Lives Again [Part 1]

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, science fiction

Character(s): Colossus [later called "It, the Living Colossus"] (also in flashback); Crab-Creatures of Cancrius III (also in flashback); Judy; Frank

First Line: Introduction: The Colossus, world's largest and strongest statue, was built by the iron curtain nations as a symbol of...

Synopsis: As the Colossus is being sent to America from the Soviet Union for an International Fair, the crab-creatures of Cancrius III return and try to take over the earth by taking control of the Colossus again. Bob O'Bryan, a scenery designer, comes up with the idea of creating a gigantic plaster of paris monster to trick the crab-creatures into taking it over. Thinking the bigger creature would be a better tool to use to conquer the world, the crab-creatures foolishly abandon the Colossus and enter the fake being. Bob blows the fake monster up, destroying the aliens and saving the Earth.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Job Number: V-250

Notes: Narrated in the first person.
The fake monster O'Bryan creates is a huge orange humanoid with pointy ears.
In one humorous sequence, the Colossus terrifies a group of Beatniks.
The Colossus last appeared in issue #14 (February 1961). Colossus, Bob O'Bryan, Diane Cummings and Grant Marshall all appear next in Astonishing Tales (Marvel, 1970 series) #21 (December 1973).
George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index credits Stan Lee as sole writer. Story is pages 3-7, 10 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 6).

Weather Man

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Chuck; Harry Davis; Dr. Ramsay; Kennedy

First Line: There was trouble in the air.

Synopsis: The weather reporter at a newspaper realizes that the weather is being manipulated somehow in an effort to destroy Earth's crops and helps the government stop the attack.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Job Number: G-931

Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).

[Colossus Lives Again], Part Two!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Colossus [later called "It, the Living Colossus"]; Bob O'Bryan (introduction, last name not given); Diane Cummings (introduction); Grant Marshall (introduction); Crab-Creatures of Cancrius III (destroyed); Charlie; Ben

First Line: It's a giant statue!

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Job Number: V-250

Notes: Story is pages 11-14, 16-18 of comic (pages of story numbered 7 to 13)

The Rocking Horse

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: drama, occult

Character(s): Hamim; Hamim's mother; Hamim's father

First Line: The year was 1961... A year when the rich nations of Earth offered help to...

Synopsis: A lame boy in a poor house asks for a rocking horse from charity, enraging his parents. When their house is destroyed in an earthquake the horse saves the boy, showing the value of love.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: V-251

Notes: Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4, last page not numbered).

The Bomb

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

First Line: Behold!! A strange object, making a sudden, dramatic appearance as it plunges earthward!

Synopsis: A threatening object that appears to be a bomb drops from the sky and lands in New York city. The object even emits ticking sounds that lead people to believe they are in imminent danger and so the city the evacuated. The military cordons off the object and just waits for its detonation. Eventually the ticking stops and it rises into the air and disappears. It was recalled to its planet of origin because no living thing touched it in response to its signals, and its makers assume Earth is barren of life, so they send their gift package off to another world.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: V-249

Notes: Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4, last page not numbered).