Strange Tales
#63
(June 1958)
Marvel,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1958-01-28
- 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.
The Melting Pot!
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Sam Barlow
- Reprints
-
in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #9 (1964), #154 ([circa 1977 - 1978]), #189 ([circa 1982 - 1983])
-
He Never Came Out!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Jack Oleck
- Pencils
- Alfonso Greene (signed)
- Inks
- Alfonso Greene (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- M-424
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Joe Morse; Pete Atkins; Mr. Cartel
- Synopsis
- A wax museum owner claims that his statues are criminals petrified by the head of Medusa. When a thief ignores this warning and tries to rob him, the museum gains a new statue.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Oleck script per Martin O'Hearn: http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2021/06/strange-tales-by-jack-oleck.html
Uncork It... If You Dare!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Carl Wessler ? (sourced)
- Pencils
- Howard O'Donnell (signed as O’Donnell)
- Inks
- Howard O'Donnell (signed as O’Donnell)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ben Oda ? (sourced)
- Job Number
- M-414
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Harold Simpson; Flora Simpson
- Synopsis
- A meek man is left a bottle of gas that changes personalities. Instead of using it to become more daring, he uses it on UN diplomats. The gas has unexpected effects, but in the end he uses all of it to avert war, though no one knows the sacrifice he made.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Letters: Probably not [Artie] Simek, if one compares his late 1950s work across the Marvel line.
Ben Oda seems to be a better guess.
The Drowning Man!
comic story / 3 pages
- Job Number
- M-367
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Joe Fulsom; Hirala
- Synopsis
- A cafe owner comes across Atlanteans exiling some of their criminals. The guards save him from drowning and he is offered citizenship.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Pencil credit of J. Makowski? and ink credit of Hy Fleishman removed based on information from Tom Lammers and the Atlas/Timely discussion list.
Flight Number Thirteen!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- M-445
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Franz; Ivan
- Synopsis
- Two criminals hijack an airplane full of strangely emotionless passengers. The airplane is piloted remotely into the parallel world that the passengers came from, where the air will drain the pilots' emotions.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Wessler script per Biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol. 31, No. 2, February 2020.
The Melting Pot
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- John Forte (signed as John Forte)
- Inks
- John Forte (signed as John Forte)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Joe Letterese (sourced)
- Job Number
- M-440
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Sam Barlow
- Synopsis
- A convict creates a melting pot to free himself from jail to steal gold, but the pot melts the gold and leaves him trapped in molten metal.
- Reprints
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #9 (1964), #154 ([circa 1977 - 1978]), #189 ([circa 1982 - 1983])
-
The Free Ride
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- K-91
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Chuck; Gus Farrell; Capt. Zingle
- Synopsis
- A teenager working at an amusement park to help support his family is kind to a mysterious boy, and finds himself rewarded with a real trip to outer space.
- Reprints
-
from World of Suspense (Marvel, 1956 series) #3 (August 1956) [retitled] - in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #15 (January 1961) which is reprinted
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 ([March] 2008)
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #9 (1964), #154 ([circa 1977 - 1978]), #189 ([circa 1982 - 1983])
-
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustrations. Original title: "Rocket Time."
Too Good to Be True!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Don Perlin (signed as Don Perlin)
- Inks
- Don Perlin (signed as Don Perlin)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- M-439
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Danny; Uncle George
- Synopsis
- A young boy imagines that he has a rich uncle who suddenly appears, but when he begins to doubt, the uncle fades away.
- Reprints
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Melting Pot!
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1.
He Never Came Out!
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2.
Uncork It... If You Dare!
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3.
The Drowning Man!
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4.
Flight Number Thirteen!
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5.
The Melting Pot
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6.
The Free Ride
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7.
Too Good to Be True!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Boris Ammerlaan
- chris bonham
- Bill Borre
- Chris Boyko
- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Gary Henderson
- Ethan Hoddes
- Darrel McCann
- Mike Nielsen
- Carl Thiel
- Jim Van Dore
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