Strange Tales #29

(June 1954)

Witchcraft (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

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Pencils:

Robert Sale

Inks:

Robert Sale

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Letters:

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Content Information

Synopsis:

An executioner thinks to drum up business by accusing an old hermit of being a witch, but the woman will not confess even under torture. The executioner disguises himself as the devil and visits her in her cell. He gets her to agree to confess when a guard sees him and raises the alarm. He attempts to remove the costume and finds that he cannot since the old hag really was a witch and uses the commotion to escape.

Come Back, Captain (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

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Letters:

typeset

Job Number:

A-814

Content Information

Reprinted:

• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #3 (2010)

Indexer Notes

Job number suggests reprint from unknown source.

Dead Beat (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

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Pencils:

Bob Correa

Inks:

Bob Correa

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Content Information

Synopsis:

A crook commits fraud by selling stock in a fake uranium company and sending the money to his fiance. When he returns to her, he finds that she has invested all the money in his fake uranium company.

One Must Die (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

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Pencils:

Bill Savage

Inks:

Bill Savage

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Content Information

Synopsis:

A man in a drilling rig plots to murder his co-pilot when he discovers only enough food for one man to return from their days long subterranean journey. After he executes an accident-like death that destroys the other man's body he notices that there are no return controls on the instrument panel. He gets a radio message informing him that his co-pilot was a robot containing the reverse controls for the drilling rig.

The Man In the Mask (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

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Pencils:

Al Eadeh

Inks:

Al Eadeh

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Letters:

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Content Information

Synopsis:

A skeleton in a mask testifies before the UN of communist atrocities.

We Saw It Happen (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

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Pencils:

Mort Lawrence

Inks:

Mort Lawrence

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Content Information

Synopsis:

In India, four different witnesses give false testimony in court, including the ghost of the deceased! The Hindu god of justice appears in the courtroom to punish all four individuals for their deceit.