Tales of Suspense, #15
Published: March 1961
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Behold...Goom!...The Thing from Planet X!
"Get back!"
Characters
- Goom
Credits
- Script: Stan Lee
- Pencils: Jack Kirby
- Inks: Dick Ayers
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
- Letters: Artie Simek
Goom! The Thing from Planet X!, Part 1
"I can still remember the mocking laughter, when I first spoke of my theory!"
Storyline
After attracting the hostile attention of Goom of Planet X, a scientist realizes that any civilization possessing such advanced technology must be benevolent and that his radar transmissions must have been intercepted by a criminal. He rebroadcasts to Planet X, and the Earth officials plan to execute him as a traitor summoning a full invasion fleet from Planet X, when the representatives from Planet X arrive and stop the execution and take Goom into their custody and leave the planet.
Characters
- Goom (introduction, origin)
- Mark Langley (introduction)
- Helen Langley (introduction)
Credits
- Script: Stan Lee (uncertain)
- Script: Larry Lieber (uncertain)
- Pencils: Jack Kirby
- Inks: Dick Ayers
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
- Letters: Artie Simek
Story Notes
Goom's next published appearance is in Incredible Hulk Annual #6, November 1976; while his next chronological appearance is in Marvel Monsters: Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (December 2005); he also appeared in Nick Fury's Howling Commandos (Marvel, 2005 series). The speech of the scientist hero at the end is similar to many others in Marvel books at this time, including Reed Richards' speech in Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #24 (March 1964). Story is pages 3-7, 10 of comic (pages numbered 1 to 6).
Masquerade
"Tommy used to be the fellow from Missouri..."
Storyline
A man with no imagination is invited to a costume party by his girlfriend, but stumbles across real fairy-tale folk instead.
Characters
- Tommy
- Kitty Blake
- Old King Cole
Story Notes
Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
Goom, Part 2
"Like a giant juggernaut the oppressor Goom razed the forest until..."
Characters
- Goom
- Mark Langley
- Helen Langley
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 11-14, 16-18 of comic (pages numbered 7 to 13).
I Am the Living Ghost!
"For the last seven hundred years I have been living in Blackhorn Castle, here on the desolate moors!"
Storyline
A man enters a castle determined to prove that there are no ghosts, but the events he experiences convince him that the castle is haunted, and so he flees. It turns out that the castle does not contain any ghosts, but is possessed by animated suits of armor and living stone gargoyles.
Credits
- Pencils: Steve Ditko
- Inks: Steve Ditko
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
- Letters: Artie Simek
Story Notes
Narrated by one of the animated beings. Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
Moomboo!
"You shut your eyes... You raise your arms..."
Storyline
A shaman cons his tribe, but when a seemingly magic idol appears he attacks it and it vanishes. It was an extra-dimensional scout, and its experience decides its people not to contact Earth.
Characters
- Moomboo
Credits
- Script: Stan Lee (uncertain)
- Script: Larry Lieber (uncertain)
- Pencils: Don Heck
- Inks: Don Heck
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
- Letters: Ray Holloway (uncertain)
Story Notes
Narrated in the second person to the shaman. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).