Tales of Suspense #13

(January 1961)

Elektro! He Held the World in His Iron Grip! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Dick Ayers

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

T-970

Content Information

Genre:

monsters

Characters:

Elektro (introduction, origin); Wilbur Poole

Synopsis:

A scientist creates a computer so sophisticated that it can out think human beings. It hypnotizes the scientist into building it a huge robot body so that it can move and threaten human cities to conquer them. As it gets further from the scientist, the hypnosis fades, and the scientist regains his own will. He rushes Elektro, and enters the robot frame from a small door in its heel, and removes the power source, thus saving humanity.

Reprinted:

• in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #22 (July 1973)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008)

Indexer Notes

Narrated in the third person. Elektro next appears in Marvel Monsters: Fin Fang 4 (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (December 2005).

The Missing Film (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

John Severin

Inks:

John Severin

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Job Number:

J-707

Content Information

Genre:

spy; occult

Characters:

Dr. Title; Douglas Jenks

Synopsis:

A government agent retrieves a classified microfilm stolen to be given to enemy agents, and is helped by a magic bridge.

Reprinted:

• from Adventure Into Mystery (Marvel, 1956 series) #7 (May 1957)

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration.

The Demon in the Dungeon! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Don Heck

Inks:

Don Heck

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

T-964

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Synopsis:

A novelist rents a castle in Transylvania, where the locals believe a demon lives. He discovers that the creature is a lost alien child, and its parents cure his limp as a reward for helping it get home.

Reprinted:

• in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #22 (July 1973)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008)

I Lived A Million Years! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee ?

Pencils:

Paul Reinman

Inks:

Paul Reinman

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

T-954

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Synopsis:

An Asian tyrant bleeds his subjects dry to build a suspended animation machine and avoid nuclear war. He sleeps for a million years, but when he emerges humanity has abandoned Earth and he faces a harsh and primitive world.

Reprinted:

• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008)

Indexer Notes

This is a retelling of "The Man In the Iron Box!" drawn by Carl Burgos from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #69 (June 1959). Stan Lee is speculatively credited as writer on the basis of another retelling of this story.

When the Earth Vanished! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Steve Ditko

Inks:

Steve Ditko

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

T-981

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Synopsis:

Tiny alien invaders decide to detonate their ultimate bomb thinking that unobserved Earthlings have gone into hiding to avoid their invasion force and end up blowing up an Earth boy's ping pong ball and themselves as they are caught in the aftershocks of the blast.

Reprinted:

• in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #25 (November 1973)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008)

Indexer Notes

Narrated in the third person.