Strange Tales
#18
(May 1953)
Marvel,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1953-02-07
- 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 1953 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
Witch Hunt!
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
-
in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #2 ([February] 2009)
-
Indexer Notes
Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.
John Doe!
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed as Stan Lee)
- Pencils
- Joe Maneely (signed as
Joe Maneely) - Inks
- Joe Maneely (signed as Joe Maneely)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- C-113
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Professor Von Klicht; Erika Von Klicht; Danny Slade
- Synopsis
- A criminal attempts to steal an inventor's robot so that he can sell it, but when he attempts to rub out the inventor's daughter, the robot attacks and kills him.
- Reprints
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #2 ([February] 2009)
-
The Apple Orchard
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- C-418
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Rudolph; Goniface; Filimon
- Reprints
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #2 ([February] 2009)
-
The Saucers Strike!
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- George Tuska (signed as G. T.)
- Inks
- George Tuska (signed as G. T.)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Lemuel; Pop; General Aimsley
- Reprints
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #2 ([February] 2009)
-
Indexer Notes
A similar story to the first story in Tales to Astonish #29
Witch-Hunt!
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- C-147
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- The Devil is annoyed with a do-gooder who drives away his witches so he assumes the guise of an official of the kingdom and has her sent to the stake.
- Reprints
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #2 ([February] 2009)
-
Boris and the Bomb!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Gene Colan (signed as G. Colan)
- Inks
- Gene Colan (signed as G. Colan)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Joe Letterese (sourced)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Boris Kuzov; Luchenko
- Synopsis
- A Russian atomic scientist gets revenge upon the communists who killed his family by making the first soviet hydrogen bomb appear to be a dud until they come within range and then he ignites it.
- Reprints
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #2 ([February] 2009)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Witch Hunt!
-
1.
John Doe!
-
2.
The Apple Orchard
-
3.
The Saucers Strike!
-
4.
Witch-Hunt!
-
5.
Boris and the Bomb!
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- Boris Ammerlaan
- Bill Borre
- David Bruce
- Steve Coates
- Peter Croome
- Steve Dasinger
- Mike DeLisa
- Ethan Hoddes
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