Tales of Suspense, #4

Published: July 1959

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Issue Contents:
One of Us Is a Martian!

"Blast off!!"

Story Notes

Inker credit by Nick Caputo. The martian on the cover looks nothing like the one in the story it supposedly illustrates.

The Invisible Army

"They would be the most powerful and insidious force in the world!"

Storyline

A scientist is forced to work for a dictator but, instead of creating an invisibility ray as ordered, creates a teleportation ray that banishes his top officers and allows a revolution.

Story Notes

Narrated in the second person. Story is pages 3-7 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4, last page not numbered).

One of Our Spacemen Is Missing!
Storyline

A space explorer ignores his partner's caution and leads a party out into a seemingly safe world. They all disappear, captured by intelligent trees, and the more cautious explorer rescues them.

Story Notes

Possible Kirby script per Nick Caputo, August 2014. Story is pages 10-14 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

The Voice of Doom!
Storyline

A ham radio operator believes he is receiving reports of an extraterrestrial battle, but he is actually receiving the thought waves of ants.

Story Notes

This story was retold as in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #60 (Septemeber 1960) as "I Found the Things From Nowhere", drawn by Jack Kirby. Art credits from Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006). Story is pages 16-18, 20 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4).

Beware of the...Robots!

"His name was Joe Hughes and he worked on the assembly line in a..."

Storyline

A man writes anti-robot articles about his replacement at a factory by a robot. He becomes a famous writer, and realizes that the robot actually freed him to pursue his true calling.

Story Notes

Story is pages 21-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4).

One of Us Is a Martian!

"Man's greatest venture was in the making, and ace rocket pilot Dave Oren felt the..."

Storyline

A Martian spy is sent to sabotage a human rocket, but he destroys a toy instead, since Martians are only an inch tall.

Credits
Story Notes

Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5). Cover story.

Snowstorm
Storyline

A hiker lost in the snow meets a scientist who discovered how to transform other metals into gold but lives in isolation so his discovery will not cause turmoil.

Story Notes

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