Strange Tales #54

(January 1957)

A Witch By Night (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

John Forte

Inks:

John Forte

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

L-3

Content Information

Reprinted:

• in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #156

Indexer Notes

A story that shares plot elements with The Twilight Zone's "It's A Good Life".

The Long Sleep! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Gray Morrow

Inks:

Gray Morrow

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

L-40

Content Information

Synopsis:

A criminal thinks he has shot a night watchman and goes into suspended animation for forty years so that the police will forget about him, but when he comes out of the suspended animation, he reads in the old newspaper that his partner was the one who wounded the night watchman earlier in the evening and the police never suspected him.

Something Strange On the Sand! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Doug Wildey

Inks:

Doug Wildey

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

K-962

Content Information

Synopsis:

A man finds a city with a treasure that only appears once every several years and attempts to steal the treasure but fails.

Reprinted:

• in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #156

Trapped In the Dark! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Robert Sale

Inks:

Robert Sale

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

K-931

Content Information

Synopsis:

A swindler whose conscience is bothering him finds himself locked in an amusement park fun house where he sees visions of the people he has cheated.

Robot Inventor (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

typeset

Job Number:

F-889

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Ned Carter; Mr. Jonas

Synopsis:

A disgruntled janitor's obsessive effort to create a sweeping robot costs him his job and ends in failure, but only because he sees no use for a perpetual motion machine.

Reprinted:

• from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #32 (June 1955) [originally titled "The Inventor"]

The Man Who Talked! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bob Powell

Inks:

Bob Powell

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

K-947

Content Information

Synopsis:

A ventriloquist loses his dummy overboard and the island natives are about to destroy it when the ventriloquist speaks for the dummy many miles away.

The Punishment of Paul Phillips! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

George Roussos

Inks:

George Roussos

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

L-13

Content Information

Synopsis:

When a man testifying in court dreams of being executed due to circumstantial evidence he changes his attitude.