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Tales of Suspense #28

Marvel · Series began 1959 · April 1962

Dates

Cover date
April 1962
On sale
January 9, 1962
Pages
36

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #28 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

Creators

pencils: Jack Kirby, Joe Maneely, Paul Reinman, Steve Ditkoinks: Steve Ditko, Russ Heath, Joe Maneely, Dick Ayers, Joe Sinnottcolors: Stan Goldbergletters: Artie Simekscript: Stan Lee

Stories

  • Titan, the Amphibian from Atlantis! · 7 pages

    John Cartwright, an auto executive, pretends to betray the human race to the invaders from Atlantis.

  • Special Sale · 2 pages

    When a husband goes shopping he finds a new cleaning fluid that makes anything better than new, even him.

  • Back from the Dead! · 6 pages

    A fugitive hides on Easter Island and finds a scroll that awakens the stone heads. They turn out to be aliens and take him with them as a zoo specimen.

  • The Dummy · 5 pages

    Ventriloquist the Great Gregory and his wooden puppet Herman are both wooden aliens from Uranus!

  • The Secret of the Black Planet · 5 pages

    A man escapes from a prison planet only to mistake a native creature on another world for a rocket ship and ends up about to be devoured.

Reprinted in

Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (2006), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Creepy Worlds (1962), Astounding Stories (1966), Fantasy Masterpieces (1966), Chamber of Chills (1972), Uncanny Tales (1973), Weird Wonder Tales (1973), Planet of the Apes (1974), Tomb of Darkness (1974), Monster Masterworks (1989), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)

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