Strange Tales
#62
(April 1958)
Marvel,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1957-11-25
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Chipiden Publishing Corp.
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 12, Part 2, No. 1,
Periodicals, January-June 1958, p. 153. Includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Information supplied by Tom Lammers and the Atlas/Timely discussion list.
Periodicals, January-June 1958, p. 153. Includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Information supplied by Tom Lammers and the Atlas/Timely discussion list.
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Joe Maneely (signed as Maneely)
- Inks
- Joe Maneely (signed as Maneely)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek; typeset
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Dirk Rollery; Lialda
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Joe Maneely’s signature is located between the tally marks and the sink.
The Girl Who Walked Thru Stone!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- M-256
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Dirk Rollery; Lialda
- Synopsis
- A miner caves in the shaft he works to aid a beautiful girl from an underground kingdom. No one believes him and he is jailed, but the girl returns in a digging machine to rescue him.
- Reprints
The Man Nobody Knew!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Carl Wessler
- Pencils
- Joe Maneely (signed as
Joe Maneely) - Inks
- Joe Maneely (signed as Joe Maneely)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- M-287
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Tom Thurty; Jack Mallory; Mary Hicks; Floyd Birke; Bat Parson; Burt Peters; Frank Blaine
- Synopsis
- The obituary editor of a newspaper sees events before they happen. The source of his abilities is found after he turns in his last story, when his replacement discovers the obituary he wrote for himself years previously.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Wessler script per Biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol. 31, No. 2, February 2020.
The Invaders!
comic story / 3 pages
- Job Number
- M-322
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Rul; Garth
- Synopsis
- An undersea invasion is foiled when their scouting expedition is confused by their contemptuous reception from an old woman who takes them for actors.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Oleck script per Martin O'Hearn: http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2021/06/strange-tales-by-jack-oleck.html
Filled with Hate
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Angelo Torres (signed as Torres)
- Inks
- Angelo Torres (signed as Torres)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Joe Letterese (sourced)
- Job Number
- M-410
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Josef
- Synopsis
- An old zoo-keeper instinctively recognizes the evil in a new specimen. It is an alien sent to turn the animals against humans, but it is killed by the zoo's gorilla, the animal closest to humans.
- Reprints
It Happened That Night
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Jack Oleck
- Pencils
- Herb Familton (signed)
- Inks
- Herb Familton (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- K-84
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- George Bowers
- Synopsis
- A skeptical man mocks an Indian mystic, but he is convinced by a terrifying illusion in which he gains the ability to see the coming of death.
- Reprints
-
in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #10 (1960), #10 (1960)
-
Indexer Notes
Oleck script per Martin O'Hearn: http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2021/06/strange-tales-by-jack-oleck.html
The Window
text story / 1.8 pages
- Job Number
- B-959
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Howard Stevens
- Synopsis
- A lawyer's hotel window looks out on an alien landscape, allowing him to discover the Martian plan to conquer Earth.
- Reprints
-
from Adventures into Terror (Marvel, 1950 series) #17 (March 1953)
-
[no title indexed]
statement of ownership / 0.2 page
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Appears alongside the second part of the "The Window" text story.
Alone in the Night!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- M-289
- Genre
- crime; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Fred Standish; Nora Nichols
- Synopsis
- A thief seduces a rich young woman alone on a moored yacht. When he tries to rob her safe he finds the yacht drifting out to sea. The woman waves goodbye from the dock, explaining that she too was a thief, cursed to stay aboard for five years until someone took her place.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Wessler script per Biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol. 31, No. 2, February 2020.
Inker credit of Dick Giordano ? removed based on information from Tom Lammers and the Atlas/Timely discussion list.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
The Girl Who Walked Thru Stone!
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2.
The Man Nobody Knew!
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3.
The Invaders!
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4.
Filled with Hate
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5.
It Happened That Night
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6.
The Window
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7.
[no title indexed]
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8.
Alone in the Night!
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- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Ethan Hoddes
- Mike Nielsen
- Gregory Roe
- Carl Thiel
- Jim Van Dore
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