Strange Tales #40

(November 1955)

This Dark Cave (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bill Benulis

Inks:

Bill Benulis

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Synopsis:

A man returns to his shelter after he mistakes a small town that has been evacuated in service of atomic bomb tests for the worldwide war that he has feared would come.

Reprinted:

• in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #130
• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #81
• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #236.

The Search (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

Typeset

A Stranger on Earth (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bill Everett

Inks:

Bill Everett

Colors:

?

Letters:

Bill Everett

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Synopsis:

When an alien crash lands on Earth, he is met with violence by men, but is befriended and helped to return to his ship by a dog. From orbit he thinks about destroying the planet but realizes that would kill the dogs too and refrains from his plan.

The Man Who Caught a Mermaid (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

John Forte

Inks:

John Forte

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Synopsis:

A man attempts to play a joke on a skeptical friend by hiring a girl with a mermaid costume to be dropped into the sea by a helicopter and then brought out of ocean with a net. The trick works on his friend and he tells his men to throw the girl back but the friend thinks he is mad to release such an amazing discovery. He lets the man know that he set the stunt up to fool him when one of his men tells him that the girl he had hired had become ill that day and never showed up for the prank.

The End of Time! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

John Forte (signed)

Inks:

John Forte (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

H136

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Synopsis:

God intervenes directly to stop militarists from rushing towards war.

Reprinted:

• in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #143

No Place to Hide (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Paul Reinman

Inks:

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Colors:

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Letters:

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Content Information

Synopsis:

A judge sentences a man to ninety days in the workhouse for vagrancy and finds himself back in time 300 years. He is pulled off the street because of his strange clothes and the judge thinks his family photograph and cigar lighter are examples of black magic. He escapes and finds himself back in the present. He has second thoughts about the sentence he has passed and releases the man he had charged the previous day.