Tales of Suspense, #13
Published: January 1961
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Elektro!
Characters
- Elektro
Credits
- Script: Stan Lee (uncertain)
- Pencils: Jack Kirby
- Inks: Steve Ditko
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
- Letters: Artie Simek
Elektro! He Held a World in His Iron Grip!
"Cringe, mortals!"
Storyline
A scientist creates a computer so sophisticated that it can out think human beings. It hypnotizes the scientist into building it a huge robot body so that it can move and threaten human cities to conquer them. As it gets further from the scientist, the hypnosis fades, and the scientist regains his own will. He rushes Elektro, and enters the robot frame from a small door in its heel, and removes the power source, thus saving humanity.
Characters
- Elektro (introduction, origin)
- Wilbur Poole
- Charlie
Credits
- Script: Stan Lee (uncertain)
- Script: Larry Lieber (uncertain)
- Pencils: Jack Kirby
- Inks: Dick Ayers
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
- Letters: Artie Simek
Story Notes
Narrated in the third person. Elektro next appears in Marvel Monsters: Fin Fang 4 (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (December 2005). Story is pages 3-7, 10-11 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 7).
The Missing Film
"A babble of strange voices welled around Dr. Title's ears as he..."
Storyline
A government agent retrieves a classified microfilm stolen to be given to enemy agents, and is helped by a magic bridge.
Characters
- Dr. Title
- Douglas Jenks
Credits
- Pencils: John Severin
- Inks: John Severin
Story Notes
Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
The Demon in the Dungeon!
"It was last summer..."
Storyline
A novelist rents a castle in Transylvania, where the locals believe a demon lives. He discovers that the creature is a lost alien child, and its parents cure his limp as a reward for helping it get home.
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 12-14, 16-18 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 6).
I Lived a Million Years!
"The scene is inside a palace in a remote Asiatic province..."
Storyline
An Asian tyrant bleeds his subjects dry to build a suspended animation machine and avoid nuclear war. He sleeps for a million years, but when he emerges humanity has abandoned Earth and he faces a harsh and primitive world.
Credits
- Script: Stan Lee (uncertain)
- Script: Larry Lieber (uncertain)
- Pencils: Paul Reinman
- Inks: Paul Reinman
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
- Letters: Ray Holloway (uncertain)
Story Notes
This is a retelling of "The Man In the Iron Box!" drawn by Carl Burgos from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #69 (June 1959). Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
When the Earth Vanished!
"On a planet far from Earth, a test is being completed..."
Storyline
Tiny alien invaders decide to detonate their ultimate bomb thinking that unobserved Earthlings have gone into hiding to avoid their invasion force and end up blowing up an Earth boy's ping pong ball and themselves as they are caught in the aftershocks of the blast.
Characters
- Goloks (extraterrestrials)
Credits
- Pencils: Steve Ditko
- Inks: Steve Ditko
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
- Letters: Artie Simek
Story Notes
Narrated in the third person. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (first page of story not numbered, then pages numbered 2 to 5).