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Issue: Tense Suspense #2
Publication Date: February 1959
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Issues: #2 of 2 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFago Magazines
Brand: Fago Publications; A Fago Publication
Indicia Publisher: Fago Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: All art credits for this issue confirmed with Dick Ayers.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
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Binding: saddle-stitched
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"We'll camp in this valley tonight...

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Dick Ayers
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Dick Ayers
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, horror
Synopsis: Adventurers are camped in a giant footprint that they think is a valley.
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Pages: 1
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To Be Young Again!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Paul Newman ?
Penciller(s): Dick Ayers
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Letterer(s): Dick Ayers
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Henry Forrest; Ainsley
Synopsis: Scientist Ainsley invents a youth serum at the Forrest Research Foundation. Owner Henry Forrest secretly injects the serum and is turned into a newborn baby.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; black and white
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Too Late!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Paul Newman ?
Penciller(s): Dick Ayers
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Dick Ayers
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Emanuel Maxwell; Gretchen; Hans
Synopsis: Emanuel Maxwell, a brilliant scientist, goes to a mountain resort for rest. He falls in love with Gretchen. Her companion, Hans, taunts Maxwell into climbing a mountain with him. They are falling into a crevasse when Maxwell wakes from a dream with a climbing rope around his waist. He plans to lead a rescue party to Hans, then propose to Gretchen.
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Pages: 8
Job Number: S 219
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Don't Throw That Switch

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Paul Newman ?
Penciller(s): Dick Ayers
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Dick Ayers
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Frank; Lester
Synopsis: Mad scientist Lester invents a "Gravity Suspendor". His college friend Frank rushes to stop him. A flash of lightning supposedly stops Lester from activating the device. Lester gets a mental block and forgets the whole project. In the last panel, Lester's house and Frank's car are slowly settling back to Earth.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: S 221
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The First

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Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Bill Jensen [captain]; Marie Jensen [chemist]; Dr. Brant ; Helen Brant [zoologist]; Sally Marks [biologist]; Frank Marks [navigator]
Synopsis: A space ship carrying three married couples, all scientists, overshoots the moon and lands on Mars. They discover that Mars is habitable.
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They Come to the Canyon

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Paul Newman ?
Penciller(s): Dick Ayers
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Dick Ayers
Subject Matter
Character(s): Mr. Baxter; Mr. Hodges
Synopsis: Mr. Baxter, a circus owner, hires Mr. Hodges, a guide, to find a race of giants. The search is actually part of a giant's nightmare.
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In Content Item: FlagGarganta's Thrilling Science #1 published August 2001
as They Come to the Canyon [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: S 213
Disclose Notes: Cover story
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Strange

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Paul Newman ?
Penciller(s): Dick Ayers
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Dick Ayers
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Synopsis: A man who casts no shadow marries a woman who casts no shadow, then leaves her when he discovers that she also has no mirror reflection.
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Pages: 1
Job Number: S 266
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Gratitude on a Very Dark Night

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Paul Newman ?
Penciller(s): Dick Ayers
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Dick Ayers
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): John Dunn
Synopsis: Old John Dunn is kind to everyone, even his scarecrow. He withdraws all of his savings to give to his granddaughter for her wedding. A robber who plans to steal it fails when he is terrorized by the scarecrow's shadow -- on a moonless night!
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Pages: 5
Job Number: S 228
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Both of Me in Budapest!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Paul Newman ?
Penciller(s): Dick Ayers
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Dick Ayers
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
Character(s): Ivan Kreisler
Synopsis: Mad scientist Ivan Kreisler invents a beam that makes a duplicate of himself that he can telepathically direct by staying perfectly immobile. While directing the duplicate to rob a bank, he is struck by a police van driven by a technician who is tracking the telepathic waves.
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Pages: 6
Job Number: S 170
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Rendezvous

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Paul Newman ?
Penciller(s): Dick Ayers
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Letterer(s): Dick Ayers
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, informational
Synopsis: An automobile makes its rendezvous with a speeding train. The driver is a crash test dummy, demonstrating to the four shadowy figures (and the reader) not to ignore the stop signs at railroad crossings.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: inside back cover; black and white
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The Last Robot

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Paul Newman ?
Penciller(s): Dick Ayers
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Dick Ayers
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A bald, monocled leader destroys the special investigator robot that was manufactured to destroy all other robots, saving mankind from robotic dominance.
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Pages: 1
Job Number: S 277
Disclose Notes: Back cover

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