Tales of Suspense #33

(September 1962)

I was Trapped in the Chamber of Fear! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Kirby (signed)

Inks:

Dick Ayers (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

occult

Characters:

Mike Mathews; Hiram Cragmoor; Vera Vandeer; Chuck Dawson

Synopsis:

A man tries to pitch to Stan Lee the story of a blackmailer who becomes trapped within a mystic ruby as an agent of Fate to direct recently departed souls to their destination. Stan rejects the story as too outlandish even for Tales of Suspense and the man leaves the office. Outside, the man mutters to himself that his secret is safe since even if the blackmailer escapes the ruby no one will believe him and then he blinks out of existence.

Reprinted:

• in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #6 (December 1966)

Indexer Notes

Last page of story shows a poster of The Hulk on the wall of Stan Lee's office, considered by some to be the first Hulk crossover/cameo.

Bird Talk (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Letters:

typeset

Job Number:

K-424

Content Information

Genre:

occult

Characters:

Tony Tipple; Skeets Mulligan; Toodles Murphy

Synopsis:

A meeting with a strange man gives a boy an unusual way of getting a pet bird, talking to birds.

Reprinted:

• from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #50 (October 1956)

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration.

The Mystery of the Tax Collector from Space! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Kirby (signed)

Inks:

Dick Ayers (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

V-806

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Harry Grubb

Synopsis:

A failed actor finds a spaceship with a dead pilot and uses it in an attempt to con the authorities. The ship is actually a decoy, and is retrieved by the aliens to get a human specimen for their zoo.

The Secret of the Mirage (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Don Heck (signed)

Inks:

Don Heck (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

occult

Characters:

Robert Jones; Sheikh Abdul Ben Hassi

Synopsis:

A doctor goes to the Middle East to treat the local people. He is attacked by bandits for curing the local sheikh, and chased into a desert mirage, which takes him to a utopian world. Only the worthy may enter, and the bandits chase the mirage through the desert until death.

Where is the Wommelly? (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee (signed)

Pencils:

Steve Ditko (signed)

Inks:

Steve Ditko (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Synopsis:

An alien armada attempts to conquer Earth, but is driven off. One of the ships is damaged and forced to land on Earth, its pilot an outcast forever on the planet. The military soldiers are convinced they will capture the alien at any moment since it must be of monstrous appearance. As they walk past a nondescript gentlemen reading a newspaper, he says softly "It's a shame we just didn't land secretly and take over. These earthlings are so conceited that it would never occur to them that someone else would look just like them."