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Tales of Suspense, #1

Published: January 1959

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Issue Contents:
I Dared to Explore the Unknown Emptiness!

"Back to the ship!"

Credits
Story Notes

Monster does not appear in the story within.

The Strangers from Space!

"In the year 2000, space had been conquered!"

Storyline

In the future an alien ship arrives and lands at the world capital. The alien’s human form calms hostility and allows peaceful contact. The alien really projected an image to pacify bigotry.

Credits
Story Notes

Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 3-7 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5). The cityscapes are archetypal Roy G. Krenkel, while the inks - previously credited to Williamson - are by Gray Morrow (with the names of the lead characters supporting the identification).

I Dared Explore the Unknown Emptiness!

"The year was 2478... Dr. Jonathan Marteens had just made public his..."

Storyline

In the 25th-century, humans use a new cobalt fuel in their search for a colony world to relieve overpopulation. They find that humans can only flourish on Earth, and should appreciate it more.

Credits
Story Notes

Narrated in the first person. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 10-14 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5). Cover story.

The Day I Left My Body!

"The law had called me a menace to society and locked me away forever!"

Storyline

A prisoner accidentally gains a psychic hold on a lawyer. He forces the lawyer to work constantly on his appeal, but fatigue hurts the lawyer’s oratory and the murderer is sentenced to death.

Credits
Story Notes

Oleck script per Martin O'Hearn: http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2019/08/jack-oleck-stories-in-three-atlas-titles.html Narrated in the first person. Story is pages 16-18, 20 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4).

He Fled in the Night
Storyline

A restless clerk leaves England for a life at sea, thinking that he will found an empire in the Pacific. Robinson Crusoe, the clerk, is sure his voyage will make his fortune.

Credits
Story Notes

Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 21-24 of comic (first page of story not numbered, then pages numbered 2 to 4).

Prisoner of the Satellites!

"It all began suddenly--the shower of yellow green meteors hurtling towards Earth!"

Storyline

Aliens launch satellites that shrink objects on Earth in preparation for an invasion, but the humans harness the power of cosmic rays to reverse the effects and the aliens abandon the plan.

Credits
Story Notes

Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

The Newshound
Storyline

A reporter with an uncanny nose and a woman with keen hearing and become the blueprints for a new breed of journalists.

Credits
Story Notes

Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).