Tales of Suspense (1959) UK Edition comic books 1961

UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 9d cover price. Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko. "Elektro! He Held a World in His Iron Grip!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; 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. "The Missing Film" text story, art by John Severin. "The Demon in the Dungeon!", art by Don Heck; A novelist rents a castle in Transylvania, where the locals believe a demon lives; He discovers that the creature is a lost alien child. "I Lived a Million Years!", art by Paul Reinman; An Asian tyrant bleeds his subjects dry to build a suspended animation machine and avoid nuclear war. "When the Earth Vanished!", art by Steve Ditko; 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. 36 pgs., full color.

UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 9d cover price. Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "Chapter One - I Created the Colossus! ," pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; 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 Comic" text story. "Chapter Two - The Colossus Lives!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; The Colossus escapes from the army and Boris takes the opportunity to attack the regime by declaring that after he built the statue a voice came from the beyond saying that it was time for dictators to be brought to task and power-mad rulers to be halted. "Chapter Three - The Power of the Colossus!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "I Am... Gorak!", art by Steve Ditko; 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. 36 pgs., full color.

UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 9d cover price. Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "Goom! The Thing from Planet X!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; After attracting the hostile attention of Goom of Planet X, a scientist realizes that any civilization possessing such advanced technology must be benevolent and that his radar transmissions must have been intercepted by a criminal; He rebroadcasts to Planet X, and the Earth officials plan to execute him as a traitor summoning a full invasion fleet from Planet X, when the representatives from Planet X arrive and stop the execution and take Goom into their custody and leave the planet. "Masquerade" text story. "I Am the Living Ghost!", art by Steve Ditko; A man enters a castle determined to prove that there are no ghosts, but the events he experiences convince him that the castle is haunted, and so he flees. "Moomboo!", art by Don Heck; A shaman cons his tribe, but when a seemingly magic idol appears he attacks it and it vanishes. 36 pgs., full color.

UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 9d cover price. Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. Iron Man prototype issue - first appearance of Metallo in "The Thing Called Metallo!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; An escaped convict tests a radiation-proof suit under a fake name; When he realizes the suits power, he uses it to go on a crime spree; When he finds that he has a disease only treatable by radiation he stays in the suit to die rather than be captured. "The Holiday" text story. "Nightmare!", art by Don Heck; A man scoffs at his friends idea that a nightmare could last forever, causing him to storm out, drive off the road and die; He wakes up having the same conversation, in a nightmare loop. "The Hands of Hogarr!", art by Paul Reinman; A fugitive forces a gypsy to give him a new face, but he is captured because it is the same face as his pursuer. 36 pgs., full color.

UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 9d cover price. Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "Beware of Googam, Son of Goom!!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; 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. "The Bridge" text story. "There Is Something Strange about Mister Jones!", art by Don Heck; 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. "What Lurks in the Mountain?", art by Steve Ditko; 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. 36 pgs., full color.

UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 9d cover price. Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "Kraa the Unhuman," pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; 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. "The Money Tree" text story. "The Mysterious Mr. P!", art by Don Heck; A mysterious but famous clarinetist is trapped by communists and pressed to become a propaganda mouthpiece. "Enter... the Robot!", art by Steve Ditko; A mine foreman is concerned that a new robot may take his job, so he scrambles the wires in its control panel. 36 pgs., full color.

UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 9d cover price. Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "The Green Thing!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; 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. "Lady Luck" text story. "The Haunted Paper!", art by Steve Ditko; 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 Coming of Maaboo!", art by Don Heck; 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. 36 pgs., full color.

UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 9d cover price. Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "Colossus Lives Again," pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; 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 it taking over. "Weather Man" text story, art by Joe Maneely. "The Rocking Horse," art by Paul Reinman; 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. "The Bomb," art by Steve Ditko; 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 the evacuated. 36 pgs., full color.

UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 9d cover price. Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "Klagg! His Mission: Destroy Mankind!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; Klagg, an alien who visits Earth, becomes so upset upon learning humanity still wages war that he declares war upon the nations of the Earth; The hero of the story convinces communist agents to pool their forces with the democracies in an effort to present a united front against Klagg; The effort is successful because the fact the various nations were able to set aside their differences and band together convinces Klagg to give up his campaign of destruction and leave Earth. "Sdrawkcab" text story, art by John Tartaglione. "Whose Face Is in the Mirror?", art by Steve Ditko; A man wakes up in the morning and sees a stranger's face in the mirror and then it shatters. "The Man from... Tomorrow!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A man invents a time machine to travel back to the Roman Empire of 25 A.D. and set himself up as king, but all the present day devices he has brought back with him to prove his claims do not work without electricity, fuel, and broadcasting stations. 36 pgs., full color.

UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 9d cover price. Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko. "Beware of... Bruttu," pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; An often bullied scientist accidentally transforms himself into a monster, and is attacked when he cant make himself understood; In his new form he discovers that the girl hed thought out of his league really loves him, and manages to make himself human again. "Mystery Trip" text story, art by Joe Maneely. "Only One Is Human!", art by Don Heck; A human unit on Mars realises that a disguised Martian is in their midst, they cannot tell the imposter and the real human apart, until a false piece of bad news makes the real human weep, uncovering the Martian. "The Anatomy of a Nightmare!", script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; A science fiction writer is stuck, so he takes some pills, hoping a nightmare will inspire him; He dreams of horrible red-eyed aliens, but is disappointed, since that's only his own dull world. 36 pgs., full color.

UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 9d cover price. Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko. "I Entered the Dimension of Doom!", script by Stan Lee (plot) and Larry Lieber (script), pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A teenager uncovers a plot of two-dimensional beings to invade Earth by posing as a construction crew to dig a hole in the street that acts as a passageway between dimensions and thwarts their designs. "The Wish" text story. "The Creature from the Black Bog!", script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; A retired couple exploring the Everglades comes upon an alien who has been mired in the bog after landing to affect repairs and was making his way back to the ship. "Going Down!", art by Paul Reinman; A greedy elevator operator fakes an accident to get a rich customer to give him a big tip, but the elevator falls forever as the suddenly sinister passenger promises hell get his reward. "The Changeling," art by Jack Kirby; A teenager in the future desires to return to Earth despite scientist's warning that over thousands of years humans are no longer adapted to life on Earth. 36 pgs., full color.

UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 9d cover price. Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "The Insect Man," pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers; A soldier is placed underground in a capsule to test the effects of isolation; He is attacked by a telepathic insect. "Mystery Pupil" text story, art by Joe Maneely. "Beware... the Ticking Clocks!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by George Klein; A king is beset by an assassin in the king's clockroom whereupon the assassin is magiked into yet another figurine upon the king's favorite timepiece. "Something Lurks in the Fog!", art by Don Heck; An unrepentant con-man is scared straight when he strays onto a forbidden road and enters a world between life and death. "Long Live the King!", script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; A greedy prince marries a dowager queen; He tries to use her sleepwalking to cause her death, but the portrait of her husband calls out to warn her, and ghostly hands push the prince to his death. 36 pgs., full color.