Tales of Suspense #31

Dates

Cover date

July 1962

On sale

April 10, 1962

Pages

36

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #31 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].

  This edition’s page

Creators

Stories

• The Monster in the Iron Mask! · 7 pages

  A seemingly invincible alien attacks Earth, but a magician realizes that he is using misdirection to keep from facing his one weakness: gas.

• Time Machine · 2 pages

  A man's fascination with history leads him to build a time machine and travel to the past, but when he sees the dangers of time travel he destroys the machine and blueprints.

• The Man Who Found Shangri-La! · 6 pages

  A thief uses his brother to find Shangri-La. He sees a ruin full of savages and flees into the mountains to die, while his brother finds paradise, since in Shangri-La everyone gets what they deserve.

• The Crackpot · 5 pages

  An unsuccessful inventor finally gives up, throwing his final invention away. A boy accidentally uses the gun to disintegrate three communist agents without even noticing.

• The Missing Link! · 5 pages

  Scientists find a seemingly primitive man, but they discover that he is really from a future where nuclear war has destroyed civilization.

Publisher’s description

"The Monster in the Iron Mask!" Impervious to the atomic bomb! But he does have one MAJOR weakness…

Reprinted in

Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (2006), Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Sinister Tales (1964), Journey into Mystery (1972), Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (2017), Creepy Worlds (1962), Uncanny Tales (1963), Where Monsters Dwell (1970), Weird Wonder Tales (1973), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)