Pages

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Reading Room STRANGE STORIES OF SUSPENSE "Man of Mystery"

Here's a never-reprinted tiny tale about a tiny man...
...specifically, a miniature man of metal, from Atlas' Strange Stories of Suspense #5 (1955)!
The illustrator of this tale of a bionic blabbermouth was highly-unappreciated Golden Age/Silver Age workhorse Sud Shores, though the teller of the tin terror's tale is, regrettably, unknown!
Trivia: Though this was #5, it was actually the first issue of Strange Stories of Suspense, since the first four issues were called Rugged Action...

...featuring manly men performing manly feats of derring-do in various venues...which apparently didn't sell well enough to keep the book going in that format!
OTOH, Strange Stories of Suspense continued though #16 until a change in newsstand distributors in 1956 reduced the amount of titles Atlas Comics could distribute per month!
Please Support Atomic Kommie Comics!
Visit Amazon and Buy...
Paid Link

1 comment:

  1. MICHAEL SERGEJ HELGESSONMay 18, 2024 at 10:02 AM

    Great story! Good ( not a weak ending! ) But isn't page 5 drawn
    by someone else ( Don Heck )?

    ReplyDelete

Thanx for posting!