Tales of Suspense #28 (Marvel, 1962) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white pages. This is the prototype issue for the Stone Men (who would...

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Sold: Jul 17, 2003

Tales of Suspense #28 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1962

About Tales of Suspense #28

Stone Men prototype story. Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko cover and art. Paul Reinman and Joe Sinnott art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: Back From the Dead!/The Dummy's Secret!/The Black Planet!/The Coming of Titan!

Characters: Captain of the Stone Men; Harry Dawes; Titan; Herman; Bruno Brugg

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Steve Ditko

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Letters: Artie Simek

STORY DETAILS

(5 Stories)

Title: Titan, the Amphibian from Atlantis!

Characters: John Cartwright; Titan

Synopsis: John Cartwright, an auto executive, pretends to betray the human race to the invaders from Atlantis.

Pages: 7.000

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

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Russ Heath

Letters: Ray Holloway ?

Reprints: Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #12 (October 1975), | Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #7 (February 1967)

Notes: Script and synopsis added by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.)

Title: Special Sale

Characters: Marvin Kale; Paula Kale

Synopsis: When a husband goes shopping he finds a new cleaning fluid that makes anything better than new, even him.

Pages: 2.000

Pencils: Joe Maneely

Inks: Joe Maneely

Letters: typeset

Notes: Text story with illustration.

Title: Back From the Dead!

Characters: Harry Dawes; Captain of the Stone Men

Synopsis: A fugitive hides on Easter Island and finds a scroll that awakens the stone heads. They turn out to be aliens, and take him with them as a zoo specimen.

Pages: 6.000

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

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Dick Ayers

Letters: Ray Holloway ?

Reprints: Tomb of Darkness (Marvel, 1974 series) #16 (September 1975), | Chamber of Chills (Marvel, 1972 series) #11 (July 1974)

Notes: The last page includes an advertisement for Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) by Lee and Kirby. Script and synopsis added by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.)

Title: The Dummy

Characters: The Great Gregory; Herman

Synopsis: Ventriloquist the Great Gregory and his wooden puppet Herman are both wooden aliens from Uranus!

Pages: 5.000

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

Pencils: Paul Reinman (signed)

Inks: Joe Sinnott (uncredited)

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: Script and synopsis added by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.)

Title: The Secret of the Black Planet

Characters: Bruno Brugg

Synopsis: A man escapes from a prison planet only to mistake a native creature on another world for a rocket ship and ends up about to be devoured.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Stan Lee (signed)

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

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

Letters: Artie Simek

Reprints: Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #4 (June 1974)

Notes: The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko. Script added by Bob Bailey, 2005-08-12 (Per Sandell ed.) In the foreword to the Marvel Masterworks reprint, Arthur Adams describes the last panel of this story as being pornographic.

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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	1	1	3	1	2	2	2	5	5	7	4	7	9	10	7	11	13	8	4	4	5	0	0	0	0	111
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	3
Total	0	0	0	1	1	3	1	2	3	3	5	5	7	5	7	9	10	8	11	13	8	5	5	5	0	0	0	0	117

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