Tales of Suspense, #5

Published: September 1959

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Issue Contents:
Tunnel to Nowhere!
Story Notes

Rule Inks credit from Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 Series) #1. Alien creature looks like different in the story within.

I Became a Human Robot!

"You fools didn't know... You never even suspected who I..."

Storyline

An alien spy places his mind in a robot sent to Earth, hoping to be taken in for study. He gains access to data on Earth technology, but the scientists turn his robot body off, trapping him.

Credits
Story Notes

Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 3-7 of comic ( first page of story not numbered, then pages numbered 2 to 5).

I Fought the Tyrannosaurus

"No, this isn't a time travel story!"

Storyline

A couple vacationing in Africa find a dinosaur egg that hatches a live tyrannosaur. The dinosaur terrifies the villagers, but eventually dies in a landslide.

Credits
Story Notes

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).

I Walk Thru Walls!
Storyline

A criminal accidentally makes a teleporter and uses it to commit incredible burglaries, until a clever cop sets a trap for him.

Credits
Story Notes

Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 16-18, 20 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4).

I Travelled Thru Time!!

"My name is Vladamir Gorki..."

Storyline

A foreign spy escapes capture by using a time machine to flee to the 18th century, but finds that he has assumed the identity of Benedict Arnold and will be executed in his place.

Credits
Story Notes

Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Art credits from Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 Series) #1. Story is pages 21-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4).

I Was Trapped in the Tunnel to Nowhere!

"We were 1900 fathoms below the surface waters..."

Storyline

An engineer attempts to build a tunnel from America to Europe but it is destroyed by inhuman creatures living in an undersea city.

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). Cover story.

The Masterpiece
Storyline

A portrait painter is determined to paint a landscape, and eventually disappears into it.

Story Notes

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