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Series: Tales of Suspense

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Publisher: Marvel

Title: Tales of Suspense
Issue: 20
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: August 1961
Volume: 1

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TALES OF SUSPENSE #20
Owner: Pawwauw Comics

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Story Title: Colossus Lives Again!! - cover
Pages:1
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Colossus [later called "It, the Living Colossus"]


Story Title: Colossus Lives Again [Part 1] - comic story
Pages:6
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Colossus [later called "It, the Living Colossus"] (also in flashback); Crab-Creatures of Cancrius III (also in flashback); Judy; Frank
Synopsis:The crab-creatures of Cancrius III come back to try to take over the earth and begin by taking control of Colossus again. Bob O'Bryan, a scenery designer, comes up with the idea of creating a plaster of paris creature to trick the crab-creatures into taking over. When the crab-creatures foolishly take it over Bob blows it up, destroying them.


Story Title: Weather Man - text story
Pages:2
Letters:typeset
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Chuck; Harry Davis; Dr. Ramsay; Kennedy
Synopsis:The weather reporter at a newspaper realizes that the weather is being manipulated somehow in an effort to destroy Earth's crops and helps the government stop the attack.


Story Title: [Colossus Lives Again], Part Two! - comic story
Pages:7
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Colossus [later called "It, the Living Colossus"]; Bob O'Bryan (introduction, last name not given); Diane Cummings (introduction); Grant Marshall (introduction); Crab-Creatures of Cancrius III (destroyed); Charlie; Ben


Story Title: The Rocking Horse - comic story
Pages:5
Genre:drama
Characters:Hamim; Hamim's mother; Hamim's father
Synopsis:A lame boy in a poor house asks for a rocking horse from charity, enraging his parents. When their house is destroyed in an earthquake the horse saves the boy, showing the value of love.


Story Title: The Bomb - comic story
Pages:5
Genre:science fiction
Synopsis:A threatening object that appears to be a bomb drops from the sky and lands in New York city. The object even emits ticking sounds that lead people to believe they are in imminent danger and so the city the evacuated. The military cordons off the object and just waits for its detonation. Eventually the ticking stops and it rises into the air and disappears. It was recalled to its planet of origin because no living thing touched it in response to its signals, and its makers assume Earth is barren of life, so they send their gift package off to another world.


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