Strange Tales #5

(February 1952)

The Room Without a Door (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Hank Chapman

Pencils:

Joe Maneely

Inks:

Joe Maneely

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

9378

Content Information

Genre:

horror

Synopsis:

A scientist rejects science as useless for discovering the secret of time travel and turns to black magic instead. When he hears of a woman related to a witch burned in 1692 living nearby, he spies on her through a window and sees her summon the ghost of her ancestor. She confirms to the ghost that only she can travel through time by means of 'the room without a door.' The scientist gets the witch evicted and buys the house so that he can search for this room. At first he is unsuccessful, until he finds a small box with wallpaper made to resemble a room. He breaks the box open and finds himself transported back to 1692 tied to a burning stake.

Reprinted:

• in Chamber of Chills (Marvel, 1972 series) #16 (May 1975)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #1

Welcome To the Werewolves (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

typeset

Job Number:

9372

Content Information

Genre:

horror

Reprinted:

• in Spellbound (Marvel, 1952 series) #16 (August 1953) [retitled "Werewolf Village"]
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #1

Little Man Who Was There (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jim Mooney

Inks:

Jim Mooney

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Synopsis:

Dennis Ames keeps seeing a strange little man just before some disaster happens that he narrowly escapes, and he eventually comes to realize that he can't escape forever, because the little man is Death.

Reprinted:

• in Crypt of Shadows (Marvel, 1973 series) #16 (March 1975)
• in Incroyable Hulk, L' (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #51
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #1

Indexer Notes

A similar plot to The Twilight Zone's "The Hitchhiker"

The Trap (Table of Contents)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Carl Wessler

Pencils:

Manny Stallman

Inks:

Manny Stallman; John Giunta ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

9374

Content Information

Genre:

horror

Synopsis:

When a man's plane explodes he is thrown into the future to view his act of killing his new boss and then being executed.

Reprinted:

• in Tomb of Darkness (Marvel, 1974 series) #14 (May 1975)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #1

Indexer Notes

Script credit from the Masterworks reprint.

My Brother Harry (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Tony DiPreta

Inks:

Tony DiPreta

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

horror

Synopsis:

A man's brother claims to be able to talk to his dead mother which annoys him, so he beats him. His wife is tired of his cruelty and poisons him. He thinks that he has survived the attempt to murder him, but when he arrives home to kill her and blame it on his brother, she ignores him and only his brother speaks to him as "I see all dead people, don't I, Philip?"

Reprinted:

• in Crypt of Shadows (Marvel, 1973 series) #17 (May 1975)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #1