Tales of Suspense #25 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1962

About Tales of Suspense #25

Monstrollo appearance. Jack Kirby cover and art. Steve Ditko art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: The Death of...Monstrollo!

Characters: Monstrollo

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: George Klein

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Letters: Artie Simek

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

STORY DETAILS

(5 Stories)

Title: The Death of Monstrollo

Characters: Charles Hudson; Monstrollo

Synopsis: A movie producer's next film is a sci-fi picture featuring a giant robotic monster. Bad press convinces him to abandon the project but just as he's about to disassemble the robot, an alien invasion fleet lands. He sends the robot lumbering towards them and they ineffectively fire their nerve weapons at it. Next, they try gas, which of course has no effect on the machine either. Panicked, they flee to their saucers resolving never to return. People express their sympathy to the movie producer that all that money was spent with nothing to show for it, but he knows better.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Dick Ayers

Letters: Ray Holloway ?

Notes: Narrated in the first person.

Title: The Heat's On

Characters: John Tyler; Mary Tyler; Bobby Tyler

Synopsis: When a young boy builds a fan to help his family get through a heat wave it brings down the flying saucer that caused the heat.

Pages: 2.000

Pencils: Don Heck

Inks: Don Heck

Letters: typeset

Notes: Text story with illustrations. The two pages of this story are not printed consecutively.

Title: The Unseen

Characters: Jason Wilkes; Jason Wilkes' sister

Synopsis: A scientist is contacted by a communist agent who offers him a million dollars for research into an invisibility ray. The man's greed makes him accept treason and he succeeds, but he finds that after testing the ray upon himself, he has become intangible as well and has no way of turning on the switch of the antidote ray.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: George Klein

Letters: John Duffy

Title: The Hidden Face

Characters: Wogu

Synopsis: An alien bigot attempts to preach hate by hiding his face under a hood. When he assaults one of the people he is defaming he flees the police to escape capture. When he attempts to remove the hood, he finds another underneath it. He tries again, and there is still another, always another hood. A policeman shakes his head sadly as he walks away from his cell, the bigot convinced he would never have been captured if not for all these hoods. He continues to remove hood after hood with his hands, but there is nothing there.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Stan Lee (signed)

Pencils: Steve Ditko [as S. Ditko] (signed)

Inks: Steve Ditko [as S. Ditko] (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: This story is a retelling of "Men in Black" by Stan Lee and John Romita, Sr. from Menace (Marvel, 1953 series) #3 (May 1953). Interestingly, the original and prior tellings were not science fiction stories, and featured an ordinary, human, bigot. The distancing device of making the story a science fiction allegory may be a reflection of growing racial tensions.

Title: The Enchanted Paint

Characters: Hans Lubnik; Bertha

Synopsis: An untalented painter gains success when a gypsy gives him magic paints, but he becomes obsessed with beauty and abandons his lover. The gypsy casts another spell, making his former love seem beautiful to him.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?

Pencils: Paul Reinman (signed)

Inks: Paul Reinman (signed)

Letters: Ray Holloway

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	NG	PG	CVR	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	2	4	4	12	13	10	5	7	11	15	8	8	7	6	2	2	0	0	0	0	119
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
CGCxJSA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Total	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	2	5	4	13	13	10	5	8	12	15	8	8	7	6	2	2	0	0	0	0	124

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