Tales of Suspense #17

(May 1961)

Beware of Googam, Son of Goom!! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Dick Ayers

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

V-155

Content Information

Genre:

monsters

Characters:

Googam (introduction, origin); Mark Langley; Helen Langley; Billy Langley (introduction); Goom (flashback)

Synopsis:

Goom leaves an offspring in a cave to complete his conquest, and he comes across the family of the scientist who was responsible for his father's defeat. Googam is defeated when the scientist's son challenges him to a game of tag and runs off towards a pool of quicksand and then climbs a tree. When Googam sees the quicksand he mistakenly assumes that it is only mud since the boy must have run across it. Googam only sees the boy hiding in the tree as he sinks into the quicksand.

Reprinted:

• in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #16 (July 1972)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008)

Indexer Notes

This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (7 pp) and part two—"Googam" (6 pp). Narrated in the first person. Goom and the Langleys last appear in issue #15 (March 1961). Googam next appears in Marvel Monsters: Fin Fang 4 (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (December 2005). Billy Langley next appears as an adult in Marvel Monsters: From the Files of Ulysses Bloodstone and the Monster Hunters (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (November 2005).

The Bridge (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

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 Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #7 (May 1957)

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration.

There Is Something Strange About Mr. Jones! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Don Heck

Inks:

Don Heck

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

V-156

Content Information

Genre:

occult

Characters:

Freddy Sykes; Davy Jones

Synopsis:

A thug hears a man say that he has a fortune in his locker. He attacks him and tries to make him lead him there. His victim is Davy Jones, and he shows the thief his locker by drowning him.

Reprinted:

• in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #10 (October 1972)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008)

What Lurks in the Mountain? (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Steve Ditko

Inks:

Steve Ditko

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

V-157

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Synopsis:

A communist general demands that the lama tell him of the alien space ship that has landed for repairs. At first the lama refuses to allow the aliens to be conquered by the communists, but he relents after the general threatens to execute all the peasants. The soldiers march off to the mountain the lama has indicated, but after a fruitless search they conclude the lama must have been lying. Suddenly, the mountain begins to shake violently and the soldiers realize too late as it blasts off that the mountain was the space ship.

Reprinted:

• in Creatures on the Loose (Marvel, 1971 series) #18 (July 1972)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008)

Indexer Notes

This story is most likely meant to be set in Tibet. One of the aliens imagined by soldiers looks much like the later Ditko creation the Mindless Ones.