Tales of Suspense, #12
Published: November 1960
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Gor-Kill, the Living Demon
"It is Gor-Kill!!"
Characters
- Gor-Kill
Credits
- Script: Stan Lee (uncertain)
- Pencils: Jack Kirby
- Inks: George Klein
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
- Letters: Artie Simek
Story Notes
George Klein ink credit per Nick Caputo and Atlas Tales. Previous indexer credited Dick Ayers.
I Alone Know the Dread Secret of Gor-Kill, the Living Demon!
"It is the demon--Gor-Kill!!"
Storyline
A gaseous alien comes down to Earth and inhabits a dam of water to harass local villagers. The village loafer realizes that the alien is using the water in the dam to embody itself and steals dynamite in order blow up the pass before the alien can reach the sea. The loafer succeeds, but is imprisoned for stealing the dynamite.
Characters
- Gor-Kill
- Hans Grubnik
Credits
- Script: Stan Lee (uncertain)
- Script: Larry Lieber (uncertain)
- Pencils: Jack Kirby
- Inks: Dick Ayers
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
- Letters: Artie Simek
Story Notes
Story is pages 3-7, 10-11 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 7).
Vial of Inspiration
"It happened when Gus Harris was an apple-cheeked youngster with..."
Storyline
A boy without a family is given a vial filled with music, but squanders the inspiration of it.
Characters
- Gus Harris
- Mr. Peters
- Mrs. Peters
Credits
- Pencils: Joe Maneely
- Inks: Joe Maneely
Story Notes
Text story with illustrations. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
I Must Find "Those Who Lurk Below!"
"It is a small foreign island in the ocean, during the last century!"
Storyline
A sadistic jailer buys a book detailing an alien civilization that has retreated below the Earth in order to avoid surface climate change in order to torment his prisoner with false hope of escape. The prisoner finds the book and believes the story and later he finds a working digger to bring him down to the aliens below who welcome him. The astonished jailer spends the rest of his life unsuccessfully attempting to locate another working digger.
Characters
- Pierre
- Kragok
Credits
- Pencils: Steve Ditko
- Inks: Steve Ditko
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
- Letters: Artie Simek
Story Notes
Story is pages 12-14, 16-18 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 6).
The Monster in My Cellar!
"There's something down here..."
Storyline
Wanting to give his editor a monster story to end all monster stories, a science fiction writer's imagination somehow makes the monster in his story real. He fights in the cellar and upstairs until he can imagine it out of existence. Once done, he swears never to write a science fiction story again!
Characters
- un-named science fiction writer
- the writer's un-named editor
Credits
- Script: Stan Lee (uncertain)
- Script: Larry Lieber (uncertain)
- Pencils: Reed Crandall
- Inks: Reed Crandall
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
- Letters: Artie Simek
Story Notes
Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
I Met the Thing on Midnight Island!
"Even now I can hardly believe it..."
Storyline
A sailor finds a note from a castaway, but on the island named he finds only a strange creature. When an alien ship arrives to pick up the creature, he realizes that it was a castaway.
Characters
- Rick Jordan
Credits
- Script: Stan Lee (uncertain)
- Script: Larry Lieber (uncertain)
- Pencils: Don Heck
- Inks: Don Heck
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
- Letters: Artie Simek
Story Notes
Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).