Tales of Suspense Vol 1 3

Tales of Suspense Vol 1 #3 Published May, 1959 Editor-in-Chief Stan Lee Cover Artist John Buscema Artie Simek "The Terrible Time Machine" Writer Stan Lee Larry Lieber Penciler Jack Kirby Inker Christopher Rule Colourist Stan Goldberg Letterer Artie Simek "The Bridge" "The Thing from Planet X" Penciler Steve Ditko Inker Steve Ditko Colourist Stan Goldberg Letterer Artie Simek "Robot Hater!" Writer Stan Lee Larry Lieber Penciler Paul Reinman Inker Paul Reinman Colourist Stan Goldberg Letterer Artie Simek "The Haunted House!" Writer Stan Lee Larry Lieber Penciler Don Heck Inker Don Heck Colourist Stan Goldberg Letterer Ray Holloway "The Aliens Who Conquered Earth" Writer Stan Lee Larry Lieber Penciler Joe Sinnott Inker Joe Sinnott Colourist Stan Goldberg Letterer Ray Holloway Previous Issue Next Issue Tales of Suspense #2 Tales of Suspense #4

Appearing in "The Terrible Time Machine"

Featured Characters:

• Ashley Hunt

Other Characters:

• Scientists
  • Dave
  • Harold
• Clara (Presumably Dave's wife)
• Tut-Kin-Tut (Sarcophagus)

Races and Species:

• Humans

Locations:

• Earth-616
  • Earth
    • Unnamed laboratory (1965 A.D.)
    • Ancient Egypt (2699 B.C.)
      • Tut-Kin-Tut's tomb

Items:

• Time Machine
  
  

Synopsis for "The Terrible Time Machine"

An Arab tells the story of thoughts he has had since he bumped his head a week ago that originally he was a scientist inventor from the far future who had invented a time machine in order to return to a tomb to plunder it. When he initially arrived he realized he would not be able to open the casket to seize the jewels without explosives so he returns to his future, acquires equipment, and heads back. The machine makes a slight miscalculation and deposits him with an hours difference so he encounters himself and a fight breaks out as he is not willing to share the treasure. The winner of the fight knocks out the loser, but finds himself fading into nothingness, since he knocked himself out and cannot use the time machine. When the defeated version regains consciousness, he finds that his memory is gone. The Arab ponders if these are all just some wild musings, and the proof would be the time machine in the tomb, but the tomb was buried in a recent earthquake, so he will never, ever know.

Appearing in "The Bridge"

Synopsis for "The Bridge"

Appearing in "The Thing from Planet X"

Featured Characters:

• Unnamed Captain
• Chuck
• Dave

Antagonists:

• The Thing from Planet X (Death)

Races and Species:

• Humans
• Unnamed alien species

Locations:

• Earth-5953 (First appearance)
  • Planet X
  • Earth
    • Earth Orbit
      • Moon

Vehicles:

• Earth spaceship
  
  

Synopsis for "The Thing from Planet X"

Steve Ditko must have had plants on the brain, for this story, like Ditko's offering last issue, is about human will-sapping dominating plants. This plant is unsuspectingly picked up off planet X and only reveals its evil plan to destroy all animal life once it is onboard the rocket heading toward Earth. The crew waits for its telepathic domination to ebb then they all resist its commands and head for the escape pod to scuttle the rocket by directing it to crash into the sea.

Appearing in "Robot Hater!"

Featured Characters:

• Vincent Latimer

Other Characters:

• Unnamed robots
• Jupiter Space Lines
  • Unnamed robot pilot
  • Unnamed robot human-looking pilot
• Latimer Plastics Inc.
  • Miss Hanson
• Paragon Motors (Mentioned)
• Harry Sykes
• Martha Sykes

Races and Species:

• Humans
• Robots

Locations:

• Unnamed reality (2000 A.D.)
  • Earth
    • Vincent's house
    • Plastics Plant
    • Jupiter Space Lines
  • Earth Orbit
    • Moon
      • Auxiliary Plastics plants
        • Lunar Plant #16
          
          

Synopsis for "Robot Hater!"

Vincent Latimer hates robots so much he decides to pay for a human pilot to take him to the moon, since all companies now use robots, during flight the ship is almost destroyed by meteors but the skilled pilot is able to avoid them only to reveal himself as a human looking robot, the now humble Latimer decides to change his ways.

Appearing in "The Haunted House!"

Featured Characters:

• Joe Collins
• Duke Warren

Supporting Characters:

• Unnamed aliens (Voice)

Other Characters:

• Tad
• Jimmy

Races and Species:

• Humans
• Unnamed alien species (Voice)

Locations:

• Earth-616
  • Earth
    • United States of America
      • Alabama
        • Talladega (First appearance)
          • Swamp
            
            

Synopsis for "The Haunted House!"

Two escaped convicts decide to "haunt" an old house to scare away people and be left alone until the heat is off their backs. However they themselves are spooked and then captured after running away, the twist is the "Ghosts" where actually fith dimensional beings who chose the house as a temporary earth station.

Appearing in "The Aliens Who Conquered Earth"

Featured Characters:

• United World Government
  • Darius Christopher
  • Joseph

Antagonists:

• Aliens
  • Dhurk

Other Characters:

• Ivan
• Peter

Races and Species:

• Humans
• Unnamed alien species

Locations:

• Unnamed reality (Year 2058)
  • Earth
    • United States
      • California
        • Sierra Nevada
          • Mount Whitney (Destruction)
      • Florida
        • Orlando
      • Chicago, Illinois (Mentioned)
    • Atlantic Ocean
    • United Kingdom (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
      • England (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
        • London (Appears on a computer screen, TV, or hologram only)
    • Buenos Aires, Argentina (Mentioned)
    • Hong Kong, China (Mentioned)

Items:

• Hyper-Hydrogen Bomb
• Thought Converter
  
  

Synopsis for "The Aliens Who Conquered Earth"

Advanced alien invaders are defetead by Earth's president using a power often forgotten: Faith

Notes

The Terrible Time Machine is curiously reminiscent of the meeting between Dr. Doom and Pharaoh Rama Tut in Fantastic Four Annual #2.

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