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Issue Details

Issue #29
Published May 1962
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in February 1962 (February 8 according to Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website, February 27 according to Bob Bailey). This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.

Cover Details - "The Martian Who Stole a City!"

Genre science fiction; horror
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Steve Ditko
Notes Inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (30 August 2006).
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)

7 page story "The Martian Who Stole a City!"

Characters Bill Gordon; Bobby Carter
Synopsis A Martian steals a city piece by piece, until a young boy figures out that it is vulnerable to light.
Genre science fiction
Script Larry Lieber (script, plot); Stan Lee (plot)
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Script, inks and synopsis by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.)
Reprinted in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #21 (February 1973); in Crypt of Shadows (Marvel, 1973 series) #20 (October 1975); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)

1 page text story "Mystery Mansion"

Characters Sam Catlett; Caspar; Ben Rump; Bill Rump
Synopsis A local millionaire secludes himself from his old bowling buddies as he becomes wealthier, but they discover that he misses them so much that he has invented a robotic bowling alley.
Genre science fiction
Letters typeset
Notes The first page is printed between the pages of "The Martian Who Stole a City!", while the second page is printed between "It Was Only a Simple Barber Shop...Or Was It??!" and "The Thing In the Locked Room!". The last page is split with the statement of ownership. Sequence added by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.)
Reprinted from Astonishing (Marvel, 1951 series) #45 (January 1956)

6 page story "Nothing Can Save Us!"

Characters Capt. Rick Marshall
Synopsis Trapped on a small planet a group of space pilots almost kill a space dragon out of fear until they realize that it protects the planet from runaway asteroids.
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script, plot)
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes The last page includes an advertisement for Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Kirby. Script, inks and synopsis by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.)
Reprinted in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #21 (February 1973); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)

5 page story "It Was Only a Simple Barber Shop...Or Was It??!"

Characters Mugsy Bogar
Synopsis Mugsy Bogar is a crook on the run. A mysterious figure instructs him to hide in a nearby barbershop. He goes in and the barber hides him forever.
Genre occult
Script Stan Lee (signed)
Pencils Steve Ditko (signed)
Inks Steve Ditko (signed)
Notes The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko. Script and synopsis by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.)
Reprinted in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #15 (February 1975); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)

Half page statement of ownership "Statement Required by the Act of August 24, 1912, as Amended by the Acts of March 3, 1933, July 2, 1946 and June 11, 1960 (74 Stat. 208)"

Letters typeset
Notes Average circulation per issue October 1960–September 1961 (issues #26–36, despite monthly cover dates): 184,635. This shares the last page of "Mystery Mansion".
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)

5 page story "The Thing in the Locked Room!"

Characters Prince Zemu
Synopsis Prince Zemu takes a strange painting as part of his booty, only to discover it saps his life and youth from him.
Genre occult
Script Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script, plot)
Pencils Don Heck (signed)
Inks Don Heck (signed)
Notes Script and synopsis by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.)
Reprinted in Chamber of Chills (Marvel, 1972 series) #17 (July 1975); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010)