Tales of Suspense 1959 #15 - 1.5 - $18.00

Complete. Front cover detatched.

• First app: Goom

After attracting the hostile attention of Goom of Planet X, a scientist realizes that any civilization possessing such advanced technology must be benevolent and that his radar transmissions must have been intercepted by a criminal. He rebroadcasts to Planet X, and the Earth officials plan to execute him as a traitor summoning a full invasion fleet from Planet X, when the representatives from Planet X arrive and stop the execution and take Goom into their custody and leave the planet.

A man with no imagination is invited to a costume party by his girlfriend, but stumbles across real fairy-tale folk instead.

A man enters a castle determined to prove that there are no ghosts, but the events he experiences convince him that the castle is haunted, and so he flees. It turns out that the castle does not contain any ghosts, but is possessed by animated suits of armor and living stone gargoyles.

A shaman cons his tribe, but when a seemingly magic idol appears he attacks it and it vanishes. It was an extra-dimensional scout, and its experience decides its people not to contact Earth.

Includes 10 pages of paid advertisements (pages 2, 9, 15, 19, 25, 27, 33-36 of comic including inside front cover, inside back cover and back cover); pages of comic not numbered. All new stories are narrated in the first person unless otherwise specified. On sale date as given in the copyright application as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, July-December 1960, page 345, registration number B872495.

• Goom! The Thing from Planet X!, Part 1 - Goom's next published appearance is in Incredible Hulk Annual #6, November 1976; while his next chronological appearance is in Marvel Monsters: Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (December 2005); he also appeared in Nick Fury's Howling Commandos (Marvel, 2005 series). The speech of the scientist hero at the end is similar to many others in Marvel books at this time, including Reed Richards' speech in Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #24 (March 1964). Story is pages 3-7, 10 of comic (pages numbered 1 to 6).
• Masquerade - Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
• Goom, Part 2 - Story is pages 11-14, 16-18 of comic (pages numbered 7 to 13).
• I Am the Living Ghost! - Narrated by one of the animated beings. Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
• Moomboo! - Narrated in the second person to the shaman. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).