Uncanny Tales
#39
(January 1956)
Marvel,
1952 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Prime Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Atlas [black & white]
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
I Dare Not Sleep!
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- H-596
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Hugh Denby; Claire Denby; Janice Blake; Dean Ritchie
- Synopsis
- While trying to sleep, Hugh wanders into a strange dimension where people lie asleep in rooms. Hugh's friend Dean appears and explains while people sleep their dreams create reality and Hugh understands his own life is a dream. Hugh goes to find his other self as it sleeps to prevent it from waking up, but suddenly Hugh himself awakens. He decides it was all a dream and writes a story about it.
Wrong Number
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- H-721
- Reprints
-
in World of Fantasy (Marvel, 1956 series) #7 (May 1957) [as "Sir Archibald"] - in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #40 (April 1963)
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The Hunted!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- H-645
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Jim Agat; Andrew Trent; Congala tribe
- Synopsis
- Jim and Andrew go hunting and are confronted by creatures from prehistory due to a child in a parallel dimension playing with his family's timelock device.
- Keywords
- dinosaurs; sabretooth tiger; time travel; timelock
The Building That Grew
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- H-603
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Tom Simms; Jason
- Synopsis
- Tom declares he'll build the world's tallest skyscraper. His building continues to rise without ending until it reaches an alien race, who welcome him to join them.
Indexer Notes
Art credits by Saltarella, Nick Caputo and atlastales.com.
Lost and Found
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- H-588
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Clark; Martian
- Synopsis
- Clark investigates a strange advertisement posted in the newspaper asking someone to return a lost raygun. When the raygun turns up in the mail Clark tests it and disappears, reappearing on Mars. An ad appears in the paper announcing they found the missing Clark.
- Keywords
- Mars; raygun
Till Death Do Us Part!
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- H-567
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Mark Clifton; Nora Clifton
- Synopsis
- Nora shuts down an atomic pile and suffers a terrible dose of radiation. As she struggles in the hospital, Mark appears to her and tells her to share what she knows with his colleagues. Mark was lost at sea, it was his spirit who visited Nora.
- Keywords
- atomic pile
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
I Dare Not Sleep!
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2.
Wrong Number
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3.
The Hunted!
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4.
The Building That Grew
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5.
Lost and Found
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6.
Till Death Do Us Part!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Boris Ammerlaan
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Ethan Hoddes
- Michael Hoskin
- Mike Nielsen
- Per Sandell
- Jim Van Dore
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