Strange Tales
#11
(October 1952)
Marvel,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1952-07-08
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Chipiden Publishing Corp.
- Brand
-
Atlas [black & white]
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1952 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
O'Malley's Friend!
cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bill Everett (signed as Bill Everett)
- Inks
- Bill Everett (signed as Bill Everett)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
-
in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #2 ([February] 2009)
-
Indexer Notes
Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.
The Devil and Donald Webster
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed as Stan Lee)
- Pencils
- Paul Reinman (signed as Paul Reinman)
- Inks
- Paul Reinman (signed as Paul Reinman)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ben Oda (sourced)
- Job Number
- B-79
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Donald Webster; Martha Webster; Satan
- Synopsis
- A man makes a deal with Satan to murder his shrew wife, but Satan frames him for the crime and he is sentenced to the electric chair. At least, he thinks, he is free from his wife. When he arrives in Hell, he finds his wife waiting for him.
- Reprints
- in Crypt of Shadows (Marvel, 1973 series) #3 (May 1973)
-
in Das Monster von Frankenstein (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #1 (1974) - in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #2 ([February] 2009)
-
Ocean Monster
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- B-6
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Leopold Rand; Jeffrey Farme
- Reprints
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #2 ([February] 2009)
-
Walking Ghost
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- B-97
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Si Mallory; Algernon Black; Elena Black
- Synopsis
- A debunker for a radio program enters a house that is supposed to be haunted but he tells his audience that there is nothing there. When he leaves the mansion, his sound crew run away in fear because he has unknowingly been reduced to a walking skeleton.
- Reprints
Darkness
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- A-934
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Harry Remson
- Synopsis
- An escaped convict is swallowed by a whale after the ship he was stowed away on is struck by a mine and sinks.
- Reprints
- in Das Monster von Frankenstein (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #3
- in Crypt of Shadows (Marvel, 1973 series) #3 (May 1973) which is reprinted
-
in Fantastic Four (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #41 (Octobre 1974) - in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #2 ([February] 2009)
-
O'Malley's Friend
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Gene Colan (signed as G. Colan)
- Inks
- Gene Colan (signed as G. Colan)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- A-845
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- O'Malley; Mary O'Malley; Saint Peter; The Devil
- Synopsis
- O'Malley tricks the Devil into giving him wealth while he is alive, but the Devil is resentful, and so after O'Malley dies the Devil won't allow him to enter Hell. St. Peter refuses to allow him into Heaven because he lived a wealthy and sinful life, so he has nothing to do but wander around telling his story in bars.
- Reprints
- in Das Monster von Frankenstein (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #10
-
in Vampyr (Interpresse, 1972 series) #7 ([1973]) - in Beware (Marvel, 1973 series) #2 (May 1973) which is reprinted
- in L'Incroyable Hulk (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #39 ([octobre 1974]) [N&B [B&W]
-1 page] - in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #2 ([February] 2009)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
O'Malley's Friend!
-
1.
The Devil and Donald Webster
-
2.
Ocean Monster
-
3.
Walking Ghost
-
4.
Darkness
-
5.
O'Malley's Friend
This issue was modified by, among others
- Boris Ammerlaan
- Dwayne Best
- Bill Borre
- David Bruce
- Steve Coates
- Peter Croome
- Steve Dasinger
- Ethan Hoddes
- Steve Jenner
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
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