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Tales of Suspense #18
June 1961 · 0.10 USD · 36 pages
On sale 1961-03-07
Rated Approved by the Comics Code Authority
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.
Credits
- Script
- Stan Lee, Larry Lieber
- Plot
- Stan Lee
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby, Don Heck, Steve Ditko
- Inks
- Dick Ayers, Don Heck, Steve Ditko
- Colours
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek, Ray Holloway
- Editor
- Stan Lee
Notes
Includes 10 pages of paid advertisements (pages 2, 9, 15, 19, 25, 27, 33-36 of comic including inside front cover, inside back cover and back cover); pages of comic not numbered. On sale date as given in the copyright application as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, January-June 1961, page 148, registration number B889881.
Reprinted from
Reprinted in
- Where Monsters Dwell #15— part 1
- Monsters on the Prowl #20
- Creepy Worlds #26
- Creepy Worlds #155
- Creepy Worlds #189
- Sinister Tales #64
- Fantomet #4/1985
- Mystic #27
- Mystic #57
- Spellbound #27
- Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #2
- Monster Masterworks #[nn]— part 1
- Eclipso #40— N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]
- Thor #6— N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]
- Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby #1
- The A-Z of Marvel Monsters #[nn]
- Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus #1