Sinister Tales #217

(?)

Oh, Perfect Crime! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Howard O'Donnell (signed)

Inks:

Howard O'Donnell (signed)

Letters:

?

Job Number:

K498

Content Information

Genre:

occult

Synopsis:

A sleezy booking agent uses a teleporter to get rich quick.

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• from Spellbound (Marvel, 1952 series) #31 (December 1956)

Man in a Trance (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

John Forte (signed)

Inks:

John Floyd

Letters:

?

Job Number:

K611

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

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• from Spellbound (Marvel, 1952 series) #31 (December 1956)

The Man Who Didn't Belong! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Robert Q. Sale (signed)

Inks:

Robert Q. Sale (signed)

Letters:

?

Job Number:

K514

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

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• from Spellbound (Marvel, 1952 series) #31 (December 1956)

Eye Over the City (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bill Benulis (signed)

Inks:

Bill Benulis (signed)

Letters:

?

Job Number:

G664

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

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• from Spellbound (Marvel, 1952 series) #24 (October 1955)

The Fury of Nick Foster! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Harry Lazarus (signed)

Inks:

Harry Lazarus (signed)

Letters:

?

Job Number:

K79

Content Information

Genre:

occult

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• from Spellbound (Marvel, 1952 series) #33 (April 1957)

Thelma! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

John Romita (signed)

Inks:

John Romita (signed)

Letters:

?

Job Number:

G652

Content Information

Genre:

occult

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• from Spellbound (Marvel, 1952 series) #24 (October 1955)

The Missing Nail! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

George Roussos

Inks:

George Roussos

Letters:

?

Job Number:

L-805

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

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• from Spellbound (Marvel, 1952 series) #34 (June 1957)

Just Imagine... No Subways! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Richard Hughes [as Shane O'Shea]

Pencils:

Ken Landau

Inks:

Ken Landau

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

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• from Forbidden Worlds (American Comics Group, 1951 series) #143 (May-June 1967)

He Floats Thru the Air (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Al Williamson

Inks:

Ralph Mayo

Letters:

?

Job Number:

L-758

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

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• from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #58 (May 1957)

Escape from Destiny (Table of Contents)

NoMan / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jerry Siegel

Pencils:

Ogden Whitney

Inks:

Ogden Whitney

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

NoMan; Agents from O.G.R.E.; Electrobot; Henry Watkins

Synopsis:

During a bank heist, customer Henry Watkins changes bodies with NoMan.

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• from T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents (Tower, 1965 series) #13 (June 1967)

Sdrawkcab (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

John Tartaglione (illustrations)

Inks:

John Tartaglione (illustrations)

Letters:

typeset

Job Number:

K-18

Content Information

Genre:

humour

Characters:

Oston Trams; Mrs. Trams; Laer Trams; Mike Ross

Synopsis:

An extraordinary child excels at sports and school, but does it all backwards.

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• from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #50 (August 1956)
• from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #58 (May 1957)
which is reprinted
• from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #50 (August 1956) [as "Sdrawkcab"]

Message of Doom (Table of Contents)

Secret Agent Mike Manly / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Dick Giordano

Inks:

Dick Giordano

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

spy

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• from Fight the Enemy (Tower, 1966 series) #1 (August 1966)

Forever Is a Long Long Time! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Don Heck

Inks:

Don Heck

Letters:

?

Job Number:

V-379

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Luther Kane; Dr. Jonathan Weems

Synopsis:

A greedy businessman bullies a scientist into giving him a device that can give humans the 1,000-year lifespan of a giant redwood. He ignores the scientist's warnings and uses the ray on himself alone in his mansion, finding to his horror that the ray also renders its subject as immobile as a redwood.

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• from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #74 (November 1961)

Indexer Notes

Stan Lee is tentatively credited as writer on the basis of his plot credit for another version of this story in issue Journey into Mystery #103 (April 1964).

The Quick and the Changing (Table of Contents)

Lightning / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Steve Skeates

Pencils:

Chic Stone (signed)

Inks:

Chic Stone (signed)

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Lightning; Mock-Man (Introduction); Professor (Death); Kitten; Dynamo; NoMan

Synopsis:

Shapeshifter Mock-Man makes fools of the Agents.

Reprints:

• from T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents (Tower, 1965 series) #13 (June 1967)
• from T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents (Marvel, 1965 series) #13

The Footprints (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

John Forte (signed)

Inks:

John Forte (signed)

Letters:

?

Job Number:

H-493

Content Information

Genre:

fantasy

Synopsis:

A boy looks for elves under a rock but his mother convinces him to stop believing in them and so loses out on a great fortune when the elves transmute the stones that the boy has left into gold nuggets.

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• from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #44 (February 1956)

So Long, Fellas! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Richard Hughes [as Shane O'Shea]

Pencils:

Ogden Whitney

Inks:

Ogden Whitney

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

occult

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• from Midnight Mystery (American Comics Group, 1961 series) #5 (August 1961)