Sinister Tales
#87
Alan Class,
1964 Series
- Price
- 1/- [0-1-0 GBP]
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Alan Class & Co. Ltd
- Brand
-
AC Approved Comic
How Criminals Are Trapped
Crime Tracks / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Synopsis
- Tire tracks from cars.
Man from the Ages
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- S-2576
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Mack; Dave; Major Simmons; Dave; Monks; Dr. Berna; Dr. Cone
The Edge of Fear
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- S-2577
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Dr. Amos Carter; Dr. Steven Carter
Deadlock!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- M-247
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Fred Palmer; Hubert Winslow; Joyce Winslow
- Synopsis
- A man invents a machine that can influence people's will and sells it to a businessman who uses it to gain an unfair business advantage. The businessman's daughter stops him and he regrets his actions.
I, the Gargoyle!
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- V-632
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- To some, he was the ugliest man alive!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Alan Swan
- Synopsis
- A kind but ugly, and hence lonely, man pilots a digging machine on a one-way journey to the Earth's core where he discovers a civilization who "see with their hearts" and not their eyes in the dim light. They offer him acceptance and love.
Indexer Notes
Retold in Silver Surfer (Marvel, 1968 series) #7 (August 1969) as a Tales of the Watcher story by Stan Lee and Howard Purcell.
The Mole Mystery!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- M-434
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Cook; Moore
- Synopsis
- Two men discover a city beneath the Earth made of gold and resolve to load as much of it into their digging vehicle as they can, but later they realize that the city wasn't made of gold but transmuted into gold by some force because their digging vehicle is now solid gold and they are stranded below ground.
Indexer Notes
Oleck script per Martin O'Hearn: http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2019/08/jack-oleck-stories-in-three-atlas…
The Search for Shanng!
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- X-399
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Shanng
- Synopsis
- An alien crash lands on Earth, and offers knowledge to in exchange for help. Greedy humans cannot find his ship, since he sensed their selfish thoughts and hid himself until humanity is ready.
The Secret of Sagattus!
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- X-481
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Everyone knew there was a bond between the king and the hunchback...
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Quoquo; John
- Synopsis
- A wise king listens only to the advice of a hunchback, causing the jealous nobles to murder the hunchback. They discover that the hunchback was the real ruler, and the king is only a manniquin.
The Man from Tomorrow!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- T-182
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Humphrey Pym
- Synopsis
- Humphrey poses as a time traveller supposedly newly-arrived in New York but is apprehended by real time travellers who are annoyed he didn't keep a low profile and send him "back" to the future.
- Keywords
- time travel
Indexer Notes
Penciler credit and job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassello via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Melvin and the Martian!
comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Not many men bump into stray Martians accidentally but our friend Melvin did…to his everlasting regret!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Melvin Burns
- Synopsis
- A gambling cheat encounters a Martian who offers to give him the secret of never losing if he helps the Martian locate a treasure. The crook accepts, and true to his word, the Martian puts the man under a machine that gives him the ability to know which horse will win the race and how the dice will roll. When he asks the Martian what treasure he is looking for, the Martian mocks him "Haven't you realized yet, brainless earthling? The treasure is you!" and deposits him into a Martian zoo exhibit.
Indexer Notes
Retold by Stan Lee, illustrated by Tom Palmer, as a Tales of the Watcher story in Marvel Super-Heroes (1967) issue #23.
The Yogi's Secret!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- M-249
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Yama Nuri; Clyde Lipton; Nikolai
- Synopsis
- A Yogi uses projected images to save his wealthy benefactor from communist agents.
I Come From Far Centaurus!
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- X-366
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- My home is on far Centaurus...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Victor Farrington
- Synopsis
- A greedy man is delighted when an alien shows that he will be rich, but he is sentenced to exile for fraud, and imprisoned on an asteroid where his money is useless.
- Keywords
- time sphere
The Shoemaker's Strange Assistants!
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- X-400
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Uncle Hugo; Harry Hook
- Synopsis
- A shoemaker who enjoys telling the neighborhood children stories of the little people who come out at night to help him make shoes becomes ill and goes to a loan shark to acquire money for medical treatment. The loan shark harasses him constantly to make interest payments on his loan so he must work night and day. The last time the greedy money lender visits the shoemaker he gets the shock of his life as it turns out the little people are real. They shrink the man and put him to work building shoes for the shoemaker.
Indexer Notes
Uncredited Roussos Inks per Bob Bailey, 2005-03-19. (Per Sandell ed.). Previous indexer credited Steve Ditko. Ditko plot credit removed due to lack of attribution. (13/07/2010)
Job number confirmed on original art: https://www.nostalgicinvestments.com/by-artist/2375/steve-ditko/strange-ta…
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Table of Contents
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0.
Man from the Ages; Never Again; The Edge of Fear
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1.
How Criminals Are Trapped
Crime Tracks -
2.
Never Again
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3.
Man from the Ages
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4.
The Edge of Fear
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5.
Deadlock!
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6.
I, the Gargoyle!
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7.
The Mole Mystery!
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8.
The Search for Shanng!
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9.
Who Am I?
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10.
The Secret of Sagattus!
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11.
The Man from Tomorrow!
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12.
Melvin and the Martian!
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13.
The Yogi's Secret!
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14.
The Devil Fish
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15.
I Come From Far Centaurus!
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16.
The Shoemaker's Strange Assistants!
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17.
Companion Comics in this Series
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- Doug Brain
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