Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2 (98) [Limited Variant Edition]
([June] 2008)

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Volume
2
Price
59.99 USD; 62.99 CAD
Pages
280
On-sale Date
2008-06-25
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Marvel Publishing Inc.
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Marvel [in horizontal box]
ISBN
978-0-7851-2960-8 Search at WorldCat
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Cory Sedlmeier (collection editor); Nickel DesignWorks (book design)

Issue Notes

Reprints Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 Series) #11-20. Volume 98 in the Marvel Masterworks Library.

Limited edition variant was limited to 1356 copies.
This issue is a variant of Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 [Regular Edition].
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

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Jack Kirby (signed)
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Reprint from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 Series) #14 page 7.

Credits/Contents (Table of Contents: 2)

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Conquering the World in Rubber Knickers (Table of Contents: 3)

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Roger Langridge
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[Tales of Suspense #11] (Table of Contents: 4)

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Stan Lee ?
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Jack Kirby (signed)
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Dick Ayers (signed)
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Artie Simek
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horror-suspense
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Sporr
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I Created...Sporr! The Thing That Could Not Die! (Table of Contents: 5)

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T-778
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Sporr
Synopsis
A scientist moves into Dr. Frankenstein's castle to set up his experimental growth ray. When he trains it upon an amoeba, the frightened villagers burst in, and seeing the equipment, think he is going to bring ruin down upon them and hustle him off to the town jail. With no one to shut off the growth machine, the amoeba grows to huge size and smashes out of the castle to menace the village. The scientist escapes his jail cell and uses his labcoat soaked with sugar to lure Sporr into a quicksand pit.
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The Thread (Table of Contents: 6)

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A-786
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Matt Anderson; Midget Morgan/Count Morgan; Dr. Waynne
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The mysterious death of a scientist reveals a mystical device and leads to the death of a centuries-old Italian count.
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I Know the Secret of the Flying Saucer! (Table of Contents: 7)

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T-744
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science fiction
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150 Martian flying saucers land on Earth, but do nothing after landing. Since no pilots emerge the natives transport the craft to military bases where their hulls are experimented upon, but cannot be penetrated. At a prearranged signal, all the saucers open a port. The curious scientists and military men enter, but discover no pilot or instrumentation. After they leave, the saucers return to Mars secure in the knowledge that was absorbed from their minds that Earth is no threat to them. The saucers themselves are the Martians.
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Beware the Eyes of Igor! (Table of Contents: 8)

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Paul Reinman (signed)
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Igor
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A hypnotist uses his power to rob a movie theatre, but accidentally hypnotizes himself and forgets the whole plan.
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I Escaped to Another World (Table of Contents: 9)

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Don Heck
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[Tales of Suspense #12] (Table of Contents: 10)

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George Klein
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Gor-Kill
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Klein inks per Nick Caputo and Atlas Tales via original publication.

I Alone Know the Secret of Gor-Kill, the Living Demon! (Table of Contents: 11)

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T-849
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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.
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Vial of Inspiration (Table of Contents: 12)

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Joe Maneely
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Gus Harris; Mr. Peters
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A boy without a family is given a vial filled with music, but squanders the inspiration of it.
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I Must Find Those Who Lurk Below! (Table of Contents: 13)

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Steve Ditko (signed)
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T-853
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science fiction
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The Monster in My Cellar! (Table of Contents: 14)

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Reed Crandall
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Reed Crandall
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T-854
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I Met the Thing on Midnight Island! (Table of Contents: 15)

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Don Heck
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[Tales of Suspense #13] (Table of Contents: 16)

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Elektro
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Elektro! He Held a World in His Iron Grip! (Table of Contents: 17)

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T-970
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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 to Elektro, and enters the robot frame, from a small door in its heel, and removes the power source, thus saving humanity.
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The Missing Film (Table of Contents: 18)

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John Severin
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John Severin
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J-707
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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.
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The Demon in the Dungeon! (Table of Contents: 19)

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Don Heck
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Don Heck
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T-964
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science fiction
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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.
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I Lived a Million Years! (Table of Contents: 20)

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Paul Reinman (signed)
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T-954
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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.
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When the Earth Vanished! (Table of Contents: 21)

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T-981
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science fiction
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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.
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[Tales of Suspense #14] (Table of Contents: 22)

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Colossus [later "It, the Living Colossus"]
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I Created the Colossus!, Chapter One (Table of Contents: 23)

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Stan Lee
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V-57
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Colossus [later "It, the Living Colossus"] (introduction, origin); Ivan Petrovski; Boris Petrovski
Synopsis
A Russian dissident is forced by his loyal brother to build a giant statue glorifying the USSR. An alien crash lands and fuses with the statue for protection, animating it and defeating the whole military. The alien’s companions retrieve it and the sculptor claims that the statue was a judgement against dictatorship, frightening the regime.
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[I Created the Colossus!,] Chapter Two: The Colossus Lives! (Table of Contents: 24)

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[I Created the Colossus!,] Chapter Three: The Power of the Colossus! (Table of Contents: 25)

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The Comic (Table of Contents: 26)

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J-216
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Stan Wepp
Synopsis
A bored television comedian is mysteriously transported back to the small mining town and small theatres that he loves.
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I Am...Gorak! (Table of Contents: 27)

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Gorak
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A famous magician is enraged when his power is questioned, and he reveals that the whole world is an illusion, and only he is real. He even confronts the reader, but fades away as the story ends.
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[Tales of Suspense #15] (Table of Contents: 28)

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Stan Lee
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Artie Simek
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science fiction
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Goom
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Goom! The Thing from Planet X!, Part 1 (Table of Contents: 29)

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V-87
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[Goom! The Thing from Planet X!], Part 2: Goom (Table of Contents: 30)

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V-87
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science fiction
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Masquerade (Table of Contents: 31)

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G-750
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Tommy; Kitty Blake; Old King Cole
Synopsis
A man with no imagination is invited to a costume party by his girlfriend, but stumbles across real fairy-tale folk instead.
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I Am the Living Ghost! (Table of Contents: 32)

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Moomboo! (Table of Contents: 33)

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Don Heck
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[Tales of Suspense #16] (Table of Contents: 34)

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The Thing Called Metallo!, Part 1 (Table of Contents: 35)

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V-110
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Metallo [Mike Fallon]
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[The Thing Called Metallo!], Part 2 (Table of Contents: 36)

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Metallo [Mike Fallon]
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The Holiday (Table of Contents: 37)

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Zed; Zack
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A boy celebrates the turn of the millenium with a special trip to the moon.
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Nightmare! (Table of Contents: 38)

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Don Heck
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Don Heck
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V-109
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The Hands of Hogarr! (Table of Contents: 39)

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Paul Reinman (signed)
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Paul Reinman (signed)
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V-116
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[Tales of Suspense #17] (Table of Contents: 40)

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Googam; Mark Langley; Helen Langley; Billy Langley
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Beware of Googam, Son of Goom!! [Part 1] (Table of Contents: 41)

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V-155
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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.
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[Beware of Googam, Son of Goom!!], Part 2: Googam (Table of Contents: 42)

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The Bridge (Table of Contents: 43)

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J-707
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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.
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There Is Something Strange About Mister Jones! (Table of Contents: 44)

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Don Heck
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Don Heck
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V-156
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horror-suspense
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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.
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What Lurks in the Mountain? (Table of Contents: 45)

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Steve Ditko (signed)
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V-157
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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.
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[Tales of Suspense #18] (Table of Contents: 46)

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Jack Kirby
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Artie Simek
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Kraa
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Kraa the Unhuman, Part 1 (Table of Contents: 47)

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Stan Lee
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V-178
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science fiction
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Kraa (introduction, origin)
Synopsis
An American teacher investigates the mysterious statues made by one tribe in Africa, and finds that they worship a native mutated into a monster by a Soviet atomic test. The teacher soothes the man's pain with ointment, but before the American can get him to a hospital he dies protecting his helper from a python.
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[Kraa the Unhuman], Part 2: Kraa! (Table of Contents: 48)

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Stan Lee
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V-178
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The Money Tree (Table of Contents: 49)

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G-977
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Billy Anderson; Tom Anderson; Amy Anderson
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A young boy's father scoffs when his son tries to grow a money tree, but the world is astonished when he succeeds.
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The Mysterious Mr. P! (Table of Contents: 50)

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Don Heck
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V-180
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Pied Piper
Synopsis
A mysterious but famous clarinettist is trapped by communists and pressed to become a propaganda mouthpiece. Instead he leads the dictators into the sky, revealing himself as the Pied Piper.
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Enter....the Robot! (Table of Contents: 51)

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V-179
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Max Garr
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A mine foreman is concerned that a new robot may take his job, so he scrambles the wires in its control panel. When a cave-in occurs, the men outside contact the foreman by radio and tell him that the robot was not built to work in the mine, but as a safety measure. All he has to do to escape the collapsed tunnel is turn the robot on, but since he has sabotaged the robot's wiring, all he can do is desperately attempt to find the right connections by accident until his air gives out.
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[Tales of Suspense #19] (Table of Contents: 52)

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The Green Thing
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The Green Thing!, Part 1 (Table of Contents: 53)

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V-216
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science fiction
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The Green Thing; Ignatius Rex
Synopsis
A botanist invents a serum to magnify the latent intelligence of plants. He tested it on a remote island, but the plant was evil and wanted to conquer the world. The scientist ran from the plant and used the serum on a more advanced plant, which was benevolent and stopped the evil plant.
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[The Green Thing!], Part 2 (Table of Contents: 54)

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V-216
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The Green Thing; Ignatius Rex
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Lady Luck (Table of Contents: 55)

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G-377
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Lester Ford; Marie Ford; Lady Luck
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A businessman doesn’t believe in luck, but several beneficial encounters with an old lady change his mind.
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The Haunted Paper! (Table of Contents: 56)

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Steve Ditko (signed)
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Artie Simek
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V-213
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fantasy-supernatural
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Nick Rover; Olef
Synopsis
A criminal skips town and sets up a newspaper as a front. When his typesetter changes the headlines from what they should read into what actually happens in the near future, he realizes he's got a goldmine, but the typesetter refuses to tell him how he can accurately predict the future. The criminal threatens to fire and blacklist the typesetter if he doesn't come clean, and the next headline he sets tells of an accident happening to the newspaper owner. Panicked, he turns himself in to the police so that he will be safe in jail, which is what the typesetter wanted all along.
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The Coming of Maaboo! (Table of Contents: 57)

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Don Heck
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Don Heck
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V-217
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science fiction
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Charlie Wilkes; Maaboo
Synopsis
A mercenary hears of a tribe that hoards gold while waiting for the return of a legendary alien. The mercenary poses as the alien and steals the gold, but he is abducted by the real alien.
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[Tales of Suspense #20] (Table of Contents: 58)

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Artie Simek
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Colossus [later called "It, the Living Colossus"]
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Colossus Lives Again [, Part 1] (Table of Contents: 59)

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Stan Lee
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?
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V-250
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science fiction
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Colossus [later called "It, the Living Colossus"]; Crab-Creatures of Cancrius III; Judy; Frank; Charlie; Ben
Synopsis
The crab-creatures of Cancrius III come back to try to take over the earth and begin by taking control of Colossus again. Bob O'Bryan, a scenery designer, comes up with the idea of creating a plaster of paris creature to trick the crab-creatures into taking over. When the crab-creatures foolishly take it over Bob blows it up, destroying them.
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[Colossus Lives Again], Part 2 (Table of Contents: 60)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Jack Kirby (signed as K)
Inks
Dick Ayers (signed as A)
Colors
?
Letters
?
Job Number
V-250
Genre
science fiction
Characters
Colossus [later called "It, the Living Colossus"]; Bob O'Bryan (introduction, last name not given); Diane Cummings (introduction); Grant Marshall (introduction); Crab-Creatures of Cancrius III; Charlie; Ben
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Weather Man (Table of Contents: 61)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Joe Maneely
Inks
Joe Maneely
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Job Number
G-931
Genre
science fiction
Characters
Chuck; Harry Davis; Dr. Ramsay
Synopsis
The weather reporter at a newspaper realizes that the weather is being manipulated somehow in an effort to destroy Earth's crops and helps the government stop the attack.
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The Rocking Horse (Table of Contents: 62)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Paul Reinman (signed)
Inks
Paul Reinman (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
Job Number
V-251
Genre
drama
Characters
Hamim
Synopsis
A lame boy in a poor house asks for a rocking horse from charity, enraging his parents. When their house is destroyed in an earthquake the horse saves the boy, showing the value of love.
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The Bomb (Table of Contents: 63)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Steve Ditko (signed)
Inks
Steve Ditko (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
Job Number
V-249
Genre
science fiction
Synopsis
A threatening object that appears to be a bomb drops from the sky and lands in New York city. The object even emits ticking sounds that lead people to believe they are in imminent danger and so the city is evacuated. The military cordons off the object and just waits for its detonation. Eventually the ticking stops and it rises into the air and disappears. It was recalled to its planet of origin because no living thing touched it in response to its signals, and its makers assume Earth is barren of life, so they send their gift package off to another world.
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[Tales of Suspense #17 Page 17 Original Art] (Table of Contents: 64)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Jack Kirby
Inks
Dick Ayers
Letters
?
Genre
science fiction

[Tales of Suspense #15 Page 15 Original Art] (Table of Contents: 65)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Steve Ditko (signed)
Inks
Steve Ditko (signed)
Letters
?
Genre
fantasy-supernatural

Biographies (Table of Contents: 66)

text article / 2 pages (report information)

Script
John Rhett Thomas
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Biographies for Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Don Heck, Paul Reinman, Dick Ayers, Stan Lee, and Larry Lieber

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Table of Contents
  1. 1. [no title indexed]
  2. 2. Credits/Contents
  3. 3. Conquering the World in Rubber Knickers
  4. 4. [Tales of Suspense #11]
  5. 5. I Created...Sporr! The Thing That Could Not Die!
  6. 6. The Thread
  7. 7. I Know the Secret of the Flying Saucer!
  8. 8. Beware the Eyes of Igor!
  9. 9. I Escaped to Another World
  10. 10. [Tales of Suspense #12]
  11. 11. I Alone Know the Secret of Gor-Kill, the Living Demon!
  12. 12. Vial of Inspiration
  13. 13. I Must Find Those Who Lurk Below!
  14. 14. The Monster in My Cellar!
  15. 15. I Met the Thing on Midnight Island!
  16. 16. [Tales of Suspense #13]
  17. 17. Elektro! He Held a World in His Iron Grip!
  18. 18. The Missing Film
  19. 19. The Demon in the Dungeon!
  20. 20. I Lived a Million Years!
  21. 21. When the Earth Vanished!
  22. 22. [Tales of Suspense #14]
  23. 23. I Created the Colossus!, Chapter One
  24. 24. [I Created the Colossus!,] Chapter Two: The Colossus Lives!
  25. 25. [I Created the Colossus!,] Chapter Three: The Power of the Colossus!
  26. 26. The Comic
  27. 27. I Am...Gorak!
  28. 28. [Tales of Suspense #15]
  29. 29. Goom! The Thing from Planet X!, Part 1
  30. 30. [Goom! The Thing from Planet X!], Part 2: Goom
  31. 31. Masquerade
  32. 32. I Am the Living Ghost!
  33. 33. Moomboo!
  34. 34. [Tales of Suspense #16]
  35. 35. The Thing Called Metallo!, Part 1
  36. 36. [The Thing Called Metallo!], Part 2
  37. 37. The Holiday
  38. 38. Nightmare!
  39. 39. The Hands of Hogarr!
  40. 40. [Tales of Suspense #17]
  41. 41. Beware of Googam, Son of Goom!! [Part 1]
  42. 42. [Beware of Googam, Son of Goom!!], Part 2: Googam
  43. 43. The Bridge
  44. 44. There Is Something Strange About Mister Jones!
  45. 45. What Lurks in the Mountain?
  46. 46. [Tales of Suspense #18]
  47. 47. Kraa the Unhuman, Part 1
  48. 48. [Kraa the Unhuman], Part 2: Kraa!
  49. 49. The Money Tree
  50. 50. The Mysterious Mr. P!
  51. 51. Enter....the Robot!
  52. 52. [Tales of Suspense #19]
  53. 53. The Green Thing!, Part 1
  54. 54. [The Green Thing!], Part 2
  55. 55. Lady Luck
  56. 56. The Haunted Paper!
  57. 57. The Coming of Maaboo!
  58. 58. [Tales of Suspense #20]
  59. 59. Colossus Lives Again [, Part 1]
  60. 60. [Colossus Lives Again], Part 2
  61. 61. Weather Man
  62. 62. The Rocking Horse
  63. 63. The Bomb
  64. 64. [Tales of Suspense #17 Page 17 Original Art]
  65. 65. [Tales of Suspense #15 Page 15 Original Art]
  66. 66. Biographies
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