Tales of Suspense, #18

Published: June 1961

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Issue Contents:
Kraa the Unhuman!
Credits
Story Notes

Inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (30 August 2006).

Kraa the Unhuman Part 1

"In almost every man's life there is a fateful turning point!"

Storyline

An American teacher investigates the mysterious statues made by one tribe in Africa, and finds that they worship a native mutated into a monster by a Soviet atomic test. The teacher soothes the man's pain with ointment, but before the American can get him to a hospital he dies protecting his helper from a python.

Credits
Story Notes

Narrated in the first person. Kraa next appears in Nick Fury's Howling Commandos (Marvel, 2005 series) #6 (May 2006). Story is pages 3-7, 10 of comic (pages numbered 1 to 6).

The Mysterious Mr. P!

"It's evening... We're at the rear of a theater..."

Storyline

A mysterious but famous clarinetist is trapped by communists and pressed to become a propaganda mouthpiece. Instead he leads the dictators into the sky, revealing himself as the Pied Piper.

Credits
Story Notes

Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

Enter....the Robot!

"In a lonely mining town back east, the deep, dark coal shafts are..."

Storyline

A mine foreman is concerned that a new robot may take his job, so he scrambles the wires in its control panel. When a cave-in occurs, the men outside contact the foreman by radio and tell him that the robot was not built to work in the mine, but as a safety measure. All he has to do to escape the collapsed tunnel is turn the robot on, but since he has sabotaged the robot's wiring, all he can do is desperately attempt to find the right connections by accident until his air gives out. This same story, credited to Gary Friedrich, was re-used in Tower of Shadows #2 (November 1969)

Credits
Story Notes

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

The Money Tree

"All was not as peaceful as it seemed in the Anderson household."

Storyline

A young boy's father scoffs when his son tries to grow a money tree, but the world is astonished when he succeeds.

Story Notes

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

Kraa! Part 2

"Behold, mortal--you are in my power!"

Credits
Story Notes

Story is pages 11-14, 16-18 of comic (pages numbered 7 to 13). In "Kraa the Unhuman" Part 1, the tribesmen are referred to as the Wabuzi; in Part 2, the tribesmen are called the Wambuzi.