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Tales of Suspense, #14 British

Published: March 1961

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Issue Contents:
I Created the Colossus

Story Featuring It, the Living Colossus

"Flee for your lives!"

Credits
Story Notes

According to George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index #7B this cover is reprinted on page 9 panel 3 of the story in Astonishing Tales #24.

Chapter One: I Created the Colossus!

Story Featuring It, the Living Colossus

"This mind-staggering tale is a work of pure fiction!"

Storyline

A Russian dissident is forced by his loyal brother to build a giant statue glorifying the USSR. An alien crash lands and fuses with the statue for protection, animating it. When it's attacked, it defeats the entire Soviet military on land, sea, and air. The alien’s companions come to Earth to retrieve him and the sculptor claims that the statue coming to life was a judgement against dictatorship, frightening the regime.

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Possible Lee plot;Lieber script per Nick Caputo. George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index credits Stan Lee solo. Story is pages 3-7, 10 of comic (pages numbered 1 to 6). The Colossus would return in issue #20 (August 1961). While he appears orange on the cover, the Colossus is colored gray in the interior art. The alien that animates the Colossus is a 10 foot tall orange humanoid crab creature with four arms and large round white eyes.

I Am... Gorak!

"All is silent!"

Storyline

A famous magician is enraged when his power is questioned, and he reveals that the whole world is an illusion, and only he is real. He even confronts the reader, but fades away as the story ends.

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The last panel shows the last 2 pages of the story in miniature. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

The Comic

"Stan Wepp stood before the lights..."

Storyline

A bored television comedian is mysteriously transported back to the small mining town and small theatres that he loves.

Story Notes

Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered). Job number corrected by NaturalChaos via the GCD Error Tracker.

Chapter Three: The Power of the Colossus!

Story Featuring It, the Living Colossus

"With the news of the impending hydrogen explosion, my brother saw..."

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Story Notes

Story is pages 18, 20-24 of comic (pages numbered 13 to 18). The last page asks for feedback on longer stories, directing letters to "Editor, Journey Into Mystery, 655 Madison Ave., N.Y.C. 1, N.Y.". Colossus next appears in issue #20 (August 1961).

Chapter Two: The Colossus Lives!

Story Featuring It, the Living Colossus

"Frightened by the gunfire and shouting, the alien-controlled Colossus went on..."

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Story Notes

Story is pages 11-14, 16-17 of comic (pages numbered 7 to 12).