Tales of Suspense #12

(November 1960)

Gor-Kill, the Living Demon! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Kirby (signed)

Inks:

Dick Ayers (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

T-849

Content Information

Genre:

horror-suspense

Characters:

Gor-Kill; Hans Grubnik

Synopsis:

A gaseous alien comes down to Earth and inhabits a dam of water to harass local villagers. The village loafer realizes that the alien is using the water in the dam to embody itself and steals dynamite in order blow up the pass before the alien can reach the sea. The loafer succeeds, but is imprisoned for stealing the dynamite.

Reprints:

• in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #1 (January 1970)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 ([June] 2008)

Vial of Inspiration (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Joe Maneely

Inks:

Joe Maneely

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Job Number:

J-628

Content Information

Genre:

occult

Characters:

Gus Harris; Mr. Peters

Synopsis:

A boy without a family is given a vial filled with music, but squanders the inspiration of it.

Reprints:

• from World of Fantasy (Marvel, 1956 series) #6 (March 1957)
which is reprinted
• from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #47 (June 1956) [as "Vial of Inspiration"]
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 ([June] 2008)

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustrations.

Those Who Lurk Below! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Steve Ditko (signed)

Inks:

Steve Ditko (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

T-853

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Pierre; Kragok

Synopsis:

A sadistic jailer buys a book detailing an alien civilization that has retreated below the Earth in order to avoid surface climate change in order to torment his prisoner with false hope of escape. The prisoner finds the book and believes the story and later he finds a working digger to bring him down to the aliens below who welcome him. The astonished jailer spends the rest of his life successfully attempting to locate another working digger.

Reprints:

• in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #2 (April 1966)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 ([June] 2008)

The Monster in My Cellar! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Reed Crandall

Inks:

Reed Crandall

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

T-854

Content Information

Genre:

horror-suspense

Synopsis:

A science fiction writer's imagination somehow makes the monster in his story real. He fights it until he can imagine it out of existence.

Reprints:

• in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #4 (July 1970)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 ([June] 2008)

I Met the Thing on Midnight Island! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Don Heck

Inks:

Don Heck

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

T-847

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Rick Jordan

Synopsis:

A sailor finds a note from a castaway, but on the island named he finds only a strange creature. When an alien ship arrives to pick up the creature, he realizes that it was a castaway.

Reprints:

• in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #4 (July 1970)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 ([June] 2008)