Strange Tales
#16
(March 1953)
Marvel,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1952-12-08
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Chipiden Publishing Corp.
- Brand
-
Atlas [black & white]
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1953 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
You Can't Kill Me!
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
-
in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #2 ([February] 2009), #2 ([February] 2009) - in Alter Ego (TwoMorrows Publishing, 1999 series) #108 (April 2012)
-
Indexer Notes
Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.
You Can't Kill Me!
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed as Stan Lee)
- Pencils
- Harry Anderson
- Inks
- Harry Anderson
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Morrie Kuramoto (sourced)
- Job Number
- B-886
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Henri Lebret; Suzanne Duval; Pierre Duval
- Synopsis
- A scientist develops a method of reattaching severed heads, but when his beloved daughter makes him promise to reattach the head of an executed killer she wishes to marry, he puts the man's head back on upside down to save her from herself.
- Reprints
- in Tomb of Darkness (Marvel, 1974 series) #21 (July 1976)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #2 ([February] 2009)
-
The Hitchhiker
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- B-920
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- George Ramsey
- Reprints
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #2 ([February] 2009)
-
[no title indexed]
statement of ownership / 0.33 page
- Reprints
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #2 ([February] 2009)
-
The Man in the Mud
comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Sy Barry (signed as Sy Barry)
- Inks
- Sy Barry (signed as Sy Barry)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ray Holloway (sourced)
- Job Number
- B-923
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Marty; Ed; Barney
- Reprints
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #2 ([February] 2009)
-
The Sissy!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- C-47
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Stephen; Joey; Aunt Hester
- Reprints
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #2 ([February] 2009)
-
Suicide!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- B-954
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Jenks; Lucky; Mr. Farley
- Reprints
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #2 ([February] 2009)
-
They Made Me a Ghost
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed as Stan Lee)
- Pencils
- Mike Sekowsky
- Inks
- Bill Walton ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- B-913
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Satan; Blackie Droome; Judge Parker
- Synopsis
- A condemned man makes a deal with Satan to be made a ghost so that he can haunt the judge responsible for his sentence. As a ghost, he finds himself unable to affect the physical world and the wind eventually blows him out into the void of space where he drifts for eternity.
- Reprints
- in Tomb of Darkness (Marvel, 1974 series) #22 (September 1976)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #2 ([February] 2009)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
You Can't Kill Me!
-
1.
You Can't Kill Me!
-
2.
The Hitchhiker
-
3.
[no title indexed]
-
4.
The Man in the Mud
-
5.
The Sissy!
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6.
Suicide!
-
7.
They Made Me a Ghost
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