Unusual Tales
#25
(December 1960)
Charlton,
1955 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bimonthly
- On-sale Date
- 1960-08-16
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Charlton Comics Group
- Brand
-
A Charlton Publication [corner triangle]
- Editing
- Pat Masulli (executive editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Bestsellers Vol15 #8 October 1960.
The Confederate Girl
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Reprints
-
in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #29 (1966 ?), #138 ([circa 1975 - 1976]), #170 ([circa 1979 - 1980])
-
Indexer Notes
Cover images taken from inside story.
Castle of Fear
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Joe Gill ?
- Pencils
- Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio
- Inks
- Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Jon D'Agostino
- Job Number
- 7034
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A castle, perfect for a film shoot, is inhabited by two Count Rudolfos.
- Reprints
in Unkaben
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- 6889
- Synopsis
- A boy has an imaginary friend who does wonders with his toys, but is he really imaginary?
- Reprints
The Corner Drugstore
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Joe Gill ?
- Pencils
- Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio (signed as RM)
- Inks
- Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio (signed as RM)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Jon D'Agostino
- Job Number
- 7058
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- A man is cured by a prescription written by a pharmacist who hasn't been around for ten years.
- Reprints
- in Outer Space (Alan Class, 1961 ? series) #9 (1961)
- in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #165 ([circa 1984 - 1985])
-
Death Did a Double
text story / 2 pages
- Synopsis
- A man with a low IQ gets electrocuted by a downed powerline and dies. He eventually is revived back to life. But after returning from the dead, he is a different person who seems to know everything and is incredibly bright. He refuses to talk about what happened to him when he was clinically dead.
- Reprints
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #29 (1966 ?)
-
The Confederate Girl
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Joe Gill ?
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Jon D'Agostino
- Job Number
- 6989
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- Writer and debunker of Civil War ghost stories Hiram White encounters his own Civil War ghosts.
- Reprints
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #29 (1966 ?), #170 ([circa 1979 - 1980])
-
in Steve Ditko's The Thing! (Pure Imagination, 2006 series) (2006)
-
Indexer Notes
Cover story.
Frozen Terrors
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- 6921
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- A group of men use huge steam machines to thaw out the glaciers in Greenland hoping to uncover specimens. They thaw out a viking ship, a still living dragon (referred to as a Pterodactyl), and a group of alien giants engaged in war with each other which resumes after being thawed out.
- Reprints
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #29 (1966 ?), #170 ([circa 1979 - 1980])
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Confederate Girl
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1.
Castle of Fear
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2.
Unkaben
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3.
The Corner Drugstore
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4.
Death Did a Double
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5.
The Confederate Girl
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6.
Frozen Terrors
This issue was modified by, among others
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Gary Henderson
- Michael Hoskin
- Paul Lefebvre
- Nuno Miranda
- Ramon Schenk
- Richard Thomson
- Jim Van Dore
- Mike White
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