Tales of Suspense #34 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1962

About Tales of Suspense #34

Jack Kirby cover, inked by Steve Ditko. Story art by Kirby, Ditko, Dick Ayers, and Don Heck.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: Inside the Blue Glass Bottle!

Characters: Elias Poole

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Steve Ditko

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: I Found the Girl in the Blue Glass Bottle!

Characters: Elias Poole

Synopsis: A curio shop owner uses an ancient magic bottle to shrink people, but one of his victims turns the magic of the bottle on him and escapes, as the shop owner shrinks to nothing.

Pages: 7.000

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

Pencils: Jack Kirby [as Kirby] (signed)

Inks: Dick Ayers [as Ayers] (signed)

Letters: Terry Szenics

Reprints: Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #22 (July 1973)

Title: Tricky Travel

Characters: Eli Twiddle; Mr. Hardy; Eli Twiddle's wife

Synopsis: A travel agent has the ability to travel in his dreams, but eventually he grows out of it.

Pages: 2.000

Pencils: ? (illustration)

Inks: ? (illustration)

Letters: typeset

Notes: Text story with illustration.

Title: The Forbidden World!

Characters: John; Eric

Synopsis: A space patrol find an alien world surrounded by a strange mist. They are fired on by the inhabitants and plan to retaliate, but realize too late that they were trying to keep them from the deadly mist surrounding the planet.

Pages: 6.000

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

Pencils: Jack Kirby [as Kirby] (signed)

Inks: Dick Ayers [as Ayers] (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: The last page advertises the Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #1 (1962).

Title: The Coming of the Giants!

Synopsis: The humanity of the near future grow proud as they approach space travel, but when alien giants arrive they are only saved from conquest because they are too tiny to notice.

Pages: 5.000

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

Pencils: Don Heck (signed)

Inks: Don Heck (signed)

Letters: Terry Szenics

Reprints: Creatures on the Loose (Marvel, 1971 series) #23 (May 1973)

Title: Who Am I?

Characters: Death

Synopsis: A man finds himself lost in a fog with no idea who he is. He is approached by a stranger who offers to help him through hypnosis. The hypnosis recovers his lost memory and he realizes that he was a circus performer who has died from a fall from the high wire. The stranger is revealed as Death who was delayed from their appointed meeting and is here to usher him into the next world.

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: Job number discovered via original artwork.

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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	1	0	1	4	2	8	6	9	11	6	12	8	12	13	10	14	12	6	3	4	0	0	0	0	142
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	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	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
CGCxJSA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Restored	0	0	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	1
Total	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	4	2	9	7	9	11	6	12	10	12	13	10	16	12	6	3	4	0	0	0	0	148

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