Strange Tales #3

(October 1951)

The Shadow (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Joe Maneely

Inks:

Joe Maneely

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Synopsis:

When a man's rival slugs him and he falls and breaks his neck, he doesn't realize that he's dead until he notices the absence of his shadow. Eventually he spies the shadow and it darts away from him. He gives chase and pursues it back to the cemetery and his grave.

Reprinted:

• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #1

The Man Who Never Was (Table of Contents)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

John Romita? (ghost) [as Les Zakarin (signed)]

Inks:

John Romita? (ghost) [as Les Zakarin (signed)]

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Horror; Mystery

Synopsis:

A man who conceives of Death as a person is wiped out of existence along with his friends.

Reprinted:

• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #1

Indexer Notes

Per Les Zakarin, he never penciled a comic book story. He farmed out the pencil work to ghosts, inked the stories, and signed them himself (as per Jim Amash's conversation with Zakarin, October 27, 2004).

Trapped In the Cave of Horror (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

typeset

Job Number:

8831

Content Information

Reprinted:

• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #1

Invisible Death (Table of Contents)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Mike Sekowsky

Inks:

Bill Walton?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Synopsis:

Invisible invaders from the planet Mondu are thwarted by a blind man who can sense their presence.

Reprinted:

• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #1

The Madman (Table of Contents)

comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Joe Maneely

Inks:

Joe Maneely

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Synopsis:

A man is turned invisible by a spiteful poltergeist.

Reprinted:

• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #1

Voodoo (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bill LaCava

Inks:

Bill LaCava

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Synopsis:

A man gets a voodoo practitioner to cause his wife to die, but when he finds out she has inherited a large sum of money, he asks the practitioner to call off the spell. She finds out he tried to have her killed and gets the voodoo practitioner to give her husband the treatment.

Reprinted:

• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #1