Uncanny Tales
#12
(October 1975)
Marvel,
1973 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.25 USD; 0.25 CAD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1975-07-22
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Editing
- Len Wein (credited) (editor); Irene Vartanoff (reprint editor)
Issue Notes
On sale date from the Comic Reader #120.
This Is the Day the World Dies!
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Titan
- Keywords
- monsters
Indexer Notes
Wilson and Giacoia credits addded by Nick Caputo (January 2011).
Titan, the Amphibian from Atlantis!
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Russ Heath
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ray Holloway ?
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number
- [V-559]
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- John Cartwright; Titan
- Synopsis
- John Cartwright, an auto executive, pretends to betray the human race to the invaders from Atlantis.
- Reprints
-
from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #28 (April 1962)
-
- Keywords
- monsters
Indexer Notes
cover story
Buried Alive!
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- John Romita
- Inks
- John Romita
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- An unscrupulous mine owner alienates his son by his immoral business practices, and the son is later killed in one of his family's unsafe mines.
- Reprints
- from Men's Adventures (Marvel, 1950 series) #24 (November 1953)
-
Indexer Notes
Credited as a reprint from Tales to Astound You #1, which does not exist. Story is from Men's Adventures # 24, November 1953. Info culled from Atlas Tales.
Marvel Comic Con 1975!
promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
Indexer Notes
offering items from the 1975 convention including the program book, t-shirts, bumper stickers and posters
A Switch in Time!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed)
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Karl Kargon
- Synopsis
- In the year 2050 a prisoner reads about the invention of a time machine and so breaks jail to return to the past to rub out the one witness to his crime. However, as he attempts to assault the man, he realizes that he has been rendered intangible like a ghost so as to be unable to effect any change in the course of events.
- Reprints
- from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #99 (August 1962) [miscredited to Journey Into Mystery #99]
-
The King Is Back! 'Nuff Said!
Bullpen Bulletins / in-house column / 1 page
- Script
- Stan Lee; ?
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (illustrations)
- Inks
- Sol Brodsky; Joe Sinnott (illustrations)
- Colors
- ? (illustrations)
- Letters
- typeset
- Synopsis
- Stan Lee announces Jack Kirby's return to Marvel and some of the titles he will be writing and drawing.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
This Is the Day the World Dies!
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1.
Titan, the Amphibian from Atlantis!
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2.
Buried Alive!
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3.
Marvel Treasury Editions
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4.
Marvel Comic Con 1975!
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5.
A Switch in Time!
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6.
The King Is Back! 'Nuff Said!
Bullpen Bulletins -
7.
It's Never too Late to Join..FOOM!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Nick Caputo
- Merlin Haas
- Ethan Hoddes
- Michael Hoskin
- Steve Jenner
- Jim Van Dore
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