CATALOG RECORD

Tales of Suspense #26

Marvel · Series began 1959 · February 1962

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Dates

Cover date: February 1962
On sale: November 9, 1961
Pages: 36

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #26 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

Original edition12¢ cover
Source ↗
UK pence edition9d [0-0-9 GBP] cover

British

Printed cover price 9d [0-0-9 GBP].
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Creators

pencils: Jack Kirby, Jay Scott Pike, Don Heck, Paul Reinman, Steve Ditkoinks: George Klein, Jay Scott Pike, Don Heck, Paul Reinman, Steve Ditkocolors: Stan Goldbergletters: Artie Simek, Ray Hollowayediting: Stan Leescript: Stan Lee

Stories

It Crawls by Night! · 7 pages
A farmer develops a plant that grows so quickly at night that it becomes a menace to all objects around it by crushing and tossing them. The farmer feels he is done for as he runs to hide behind a meteorite that fell from the sky earlier in the day, but as the plant touches the rock, it begins to shrivel and die. The farmer and his son along with the neighbors quickly use tools to break up the meteor and apply it to the plant thus saving themselves.
Music Master · 2 pages
A struggling band takes on a poor but talented young harp player who turns out to be a young angel studying on Earth.
Never Trust a Martian · 6 pages
Communist spies plan to fake a Martian invasion, but they are abducted and killed by the real Martians, afraid that their cover will be blown.
Seven Long Years · 5 pages
A racketeer breaks a mirror and gives up crime for seven years, only to break another mirror in his first robbery and be caught and sentenced to seven years.
The Face! · 5 pages
A thief steals a ruby from an Indian Lama's temple and finds himself cursed to see the Lama's face everywhere he goes. He tries to get out of the country by train, but still finds himself pursued by the face. Panicked, he pulls the emergency stop cord on the train and leaps out. Unfortunately for him, the place he chose to stop the train happened to be just as it was crossing a high trestle bridge.

Reprinted in

Creepy Worlds (1962), Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (2006), Fear (1970), Spellbound (1960), Mystic (1960), Sinister Tales (1964), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)