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Tales of Suspense #30

Marvel · Series began 1959 · June 1962

Dates

Cover date
June 1962
On sale
March 8, 1962
Pages
36

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #30 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

Creators

script: Stan Leepencils: Jack Kirby, Joe Maneely, Don Heck, Steve Ditkoinks: Dick Ayers, Joe Maneely, Don Heck, Steve Ditkocolors: Stan Goldbergletters: Artie Simek, Joe Letterese

Stories

  • The Ghost Rode a Roller Coaster! · 7 pages

    An amusement park owner hires an engineer to design frightening rides and works him to death. The engineer's ghost returns and takes the park owner on a deadly roller coaster ride.

  • Trouble Bubble · 2 pages

    A boy discovers a formula to blow unbreakable bubbles and accidentally entraps his father's boss.

  • The Creature from Krangro · 6 pages

    An alien commander is sent to Earth to prove his courage by capturing three humans, but he accidentally takes statues of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt.

  • The Man Who Couldn't Grow Old! · 5 pages

    An evil duke seeks the secret of eternal youth, and an old man in Egypt turns him into a mummy.

  • Inside the Fallout Shelter! · 5 pages

    A selfish man builds a bomb shelter only for himself, but when a false alarm panics him he finds himself locked in for a month without a can opener to open his food.

Reprinted in

Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (2006), Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Sinister Tales (1964), Uncanny Tales (1963), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Astounding Stories (1966), Creatures on the Loose (1971), Monsters on the Prowl (1971), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)

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