Issue | #33 |
Published | September 1962 |
Frequency | monthly |
Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Notes | Distributed to newstands in June 1962. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
Characters | Mike Mathews; Hiram Cragmoor |
Genre | occult |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Notes | Inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (30 August 2006). |
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. |
Genre | occult |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
Inks | Dick Ayers |
Reprinted | in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #6 (December 1966) |
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. |
Genre | occult |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Text story with illustration. |
Reprinted | from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #50 (October 1956) |
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 peciment for their zoo. |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Jack Kirby |
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. |
Genre | occult |
Pencils | Don Heck |
Inks | Don Heck |
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." |
Genre | science fiction |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Steve Ditko |
Inks | Steve Ditko |