Tales of Suspense Vol 1 22

Tales of Suspense Vol 1 #22 Published October, 1961 Editor-in-Chief Stan Lee Cover Artist Jack Kirby "Beware of Bruttu" Writer Stan Lee Larry Lieber Penciler Jack Kirby Inker Dick Ayers Colourist Stan Goldberg Letterer Artie Simek Editor Stan Lee "Mystery Trip" Penciler Joe Maneely Inker Joe Maneely Letterer Typeset "Only One is Human!" Writer Stan Lee Larry Lieber Penciler Don Heck Inker Don Heck Colourist Stan Goldberg Letterer Ray Holloway Editor Stan Lee "The Anatomy of a Nightmare!" Writer Stan Lee Penciler Steve Ditko Inker Steve Ditko Colourist Stan Goldberg Letterer Artie Simek Editor Stan Lee Previous Issue Next Issue Tales of Suspense #21 Tales of Suspense #23

Appearing in "Beware of Bruttu"

Featured Characters:

• Bruttu (Howard Lindley)

Supporting Characters:

• Anne Benson

Other Characters:

• Police
• Army

Races and Species:

• Humans

Locations:

• United States of America

Items:

• The Atomic Machine

Vehicles:

• Police cars
• Army tank
• Subway car
  
  

Synopsis for "Beware of Bruttu"

A milksop scientist working on an experimental machine is thinking of a comic book monster when an accidental discharge of energy transforms him into the creature's likeness. He goes on an unintended rampage through town because he can no longer speak and communicate his non-hostile intentions, the military authorities attack and drive him into the woods. While approaching a small house he gets the idea that he can write with an object, but the owner drives him away with a rifle. He loves his research assistant and, coming to the realization that the army will eventually destroy him, resolves to see her one last time. He approaches her home and uses a rake to write in the ground he means no harm, but since the scientist disappeared when the monster appeared, the woman jumps to the conclusion that he "has killed the man I loved." Since he realizes now what a fool he has been for wanting to be big and strong since the woman he loved loved him as the way he was, he returns to the atomic machine and bathes in its rays once more thinking of the man he had been. He changes back and embraces the woman. Stan was such a big softy.

Appearing in "Mystery Trip"

Featured Characters:

• Tommy Pidgeon (First appearance)

Supporting Characters

• Goober Jones (First appearance)
• Rosie
• Uncle Pete

Races and Species:

• Humans
  
  

Synopsis for "Mystery Trip"

Tommy's uncle returns from a space journey needing to re-learn how to walk on Earth instead of floating.

Appearing in "Only One is Human!"

Featured Characters:

• The Captain

Supporting Characters:

• Robert Brown

Antagonists:

• Martians
  • The False Robert Brown

Other Characters:

• John Baxter
• Henry Sloan
• Fred Winthrop

Locations:

• Unnamed reality
• Mars

Items:

• Glass Dome
  
  

Synopsis for "Only One is Human!"

A human unit on Mars realises that a disguised Martian is in their midst, they cannot tell the imposter and the real human apart, until a false piece of bad news makes the real human weep, uncovering the Martian.

Appearing in "The Anatomy of a Nightmare!"

Featured Characters:

• Writer

Other Characters:

• Unnamed Alien Race

Locations:

• Earth-616
  • The Tenth Moon of Wozu
    
    

Synopsis for "The Anatomy of a Nightmare!"

A nameless writer takes drugs before bedtime in order to come up with a new type of fantasy story for his tyrannical boss, but all he dreams of his own "dull, ordinary world."

Notes

• "Beware of...Bruttu" reprinted in Monsters on the Prowl #18 & Fantasy Masterpieces #3
• "Only One is Human!" reprinted in Creatures on the Loose #20
• "The Anatomy of a Nightmare!" reprinted in Monsters on the Prowl #18

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