Tales of Suspense, #33 British
Published: September 1962
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I was a Prisoner of the...Chamber of Fear!!
"Come back, Mathews!"
Characters
- Mike Mathews
- Hiram Cragmoor
Credits
- Script: Stan Lee (uncertain)
- Pencils: Jack Kirby
- Inks: Dick Ayers
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
- Letters: Artie Simek
Story Notes
Inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (30 August 2006).
I was Trapped in the Chamber of Fear!
"Our story starts at the "Tales of Suspense" editorial office!"
Storyline
A man tries to pitch to Stan Lee the story of a blackmailer who becomes trapped within a mystic ruby as an agent of Fate to direct recently departed souls to their destination. Stan rejects the story as too outlandish even for Tales of Suspense and the man leaves the office. Outside, the man mutters to himself that his secret is safe since even if the blackmailer escapes the ruby no one will believe him and then he blinks out of existence.
Characters
- Mike Mathews
- Hiram Cragmoor
- Vera Vandeer
- Chuck Dawson
Credits
- Script: Stan Lee (uncertain)
- Script: Larry Lieber (uncertain)
- Pencils: Jack Kirby
- Inks: Dick Ayers
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
- Letters: Artie Simek
Story Notes
Last page of story shows a poster of The Hulk on the wall of Stan Lee's office, considered by some to be the first Hulk crossover/cameo.
Bird Talk
"All the kids on the block were getting parakeets."
Storyline
A meeting with a strange man gives a boy an unusual way of getting a pet bird, talking to birds.
Characters
- Tony Tipple
- Skeets Mulligan
- Toodles Murphy
- Mrs. Tipple
- Small Talk (parakeet)
- Mrs. Murphy
Story Notes
Text story with illustration.
The Mystery of the Tax Collector from Space!
"Every city has its down-and-outers!"
Storyline
A failed actor finds a spaceship with a dead pilot and uses it in an attempt to con the authorities. The ship is actually a decoy, and is retrieved by the aliens to get a human specimen for their zoo.
Characters
- Harry Grubb [Orgg]
Credits
- Script: Stan Lee (uncertain)
- Script: Larry Lieber (uncertain)
- Pencils: Jack Kirby
- Inks: Dick Ayers
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
- Letters: Artie Simek
The Secret of the Mirage
"Behold! I am the desert!"
Storyline
A doctor goes to the Middle East to treat the local people. He is attacked by bandits for curing the local sheikh, and chased into a desert mirage, which takes him to a utopian world. Only the worthy may enter, and the bandits chase the mirage through the desert until death.
Characters
- Robert Jones
- Sheikh Abdul Ben Hassi
Credits
- Script: Stan Lee (uncertain)
- Script: Larry Lieber (uncertain)
- Pencils: Don Heck
- Inks: Don Heck
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
- Letters: Terry Szenics (uncertain)
Where Is the Wommelly?
"Earth had one problem to solve if it was ever to..."
Storyline
An alien armada attempts to conquer Earth, but is driven off. One of the ships is damaged and forced to land on Earth, its pilot an outcast forever on the planet. The military soldiers are convinced they will capture the alien at any moment since it must be of monstrous appearance. As they walk past a nondescript gentlemen reading a newspaper, he says softly "It's a shame we just didn't land secretly and take over. These earthlings are so conceited that it would never occur to them that someone else would look just like them."
Characters
- Wommellies (extraterrestrials)
Credits
- Script: Stan Lee
- Pencils: Steve Ditko
- Inks: Steve Ditko
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
- Letters: Artie Simek