Uncanny Tales
#51
(January 1957)
Marvel,
1952 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1956
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Prime Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Atlas [black & white]
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
In the Dead of Night
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- L-173
- Synopsis
- An atomic researcher's cousins attempt to drive him mad by constructing an oversize room and putting him in it during his sleep but he turns the tables on them by using a shrink ray to shrink them and the entire house.
- Reprints
in I Lived Forever!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- L-153
- Synopsis
- A man who lived during the Crusades receives a boon from a Muslim sorcerer for letting him go, but the gift of immortality turns to a curse as all those he loves grow old and die and he has to wander from place to place lest people wonder why he does not age.
The Island of Captain Galt!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- John Forte (signed)
- Inks
- John Forte (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ray Holloway (sourced)
- Job Number
- L-122
- Synopsis
- A man finds gold on an uncharted island, but it is part of Atlantis and only stays above water for seven days at a time.
Where Did Joe Go?
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Carl Wessler
- Pencils
- Gray Morrow (signed)
- Inks
- Gray Morrow (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Joe Rosen (sourced)
- Job Number
- L-156
- Synopsis
- A boxer gets in a car accident before his fight with the champ. A projection of his will to fight shows up in the ring. He loses and disappears from the ring, but he still gets a loser's purse of fifty thousand dollars which will kept his wife from having to get a job.
Indexer Notes
Wessler script per Nick Caputo from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
The House on the Hill!
comic story / 3 pages
- Job Number
- L-227
- Synopsis
- This is a story of a haunted house that does good deeds for people.
Indexer Notes
Art credits suggested by Saltarella and confirmed by atlastales.com.
The Unwelcome Stranger
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- L-108
- Synopsis
- A cyclotron accident produces a future projection of a man who then becomes his own rival at their place of employment.
Indexer Notes
Wessler script per Nick Caputo from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
In the Dead of Night!
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1.
In the Dead of Night
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2.
I Lived Forever!
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3.
The Island of Captain Galt!
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4.
Where Did Joe Go?
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5.
Take-Off Through T.V.
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6.
The House on the Hill!
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7.
The Unwelcome Stranger
This issue was modified by, among others
- Boris Ammerlaan
- Bill Borre
- Nick Caputo
- Keith Chandler
- Peter Croome
- Gregory Fischer
- Ethan Hoddes
- Mike Nielsen
- Per Sandell
- Jim Van Dore
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