Strange Tales
#21
(August 1953)
Marvel,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1953-05-01
- 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.
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
-
in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #3 ([June] 2010)
-
Indexer Notes
Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.
The Man Who Cried Vampire!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Joe Maneely (signed as
Joe Maneely) - Inks
- Joe Maneely (signed as Joe Maneely)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- C-678
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Ricky Stone; Lucy Stone; Doctor Carter
- Synopsis
- A rancher tries to get rid of his wife by telling stories of vampires out amongst the cattle in order to shock her, but what he doesn't know is that she herds vampire cows so that she can make money by preying off the neighbor's cattle.
- Reprints
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #3 ([June] 2010)
-
Sorcerer's Justice
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Paul Reinman (illustration)
- Inks
- Paul Reinman (illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- 9431
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Ebenezer Gresham; Rullamon; Steve
- Reprints
- from Venus (Marvel, 1948 series) #18 (February 1952) [as "Sorcerer's Justice"]
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #3 ([June] 2010)
-
Ball of Fire!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Tony DiPreta (signed as DiPreta)
- Inks
- Tony DiPreta (signed as DiPreta)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ray Holloway (sourced)
- Job Number
- C-726
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Munz; Nason; Hadley
- Synopsis
- A meteorite fuses itself to missing fragments.
- Reprints
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #3 ([June] 2010)
-
The Last Flying Saucer!
comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed as Stan Lee)
- Pencils
- Bill Everett
- Inks
- Bill Everett
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Bill Everett
- Job Number
- C-844
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- An alien brings the secret of eternal life, but fearful humans blow up his flying saucer.
- Reprints
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #3 ([June] 2010)
-
The Man from Tomorrow
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- C-858
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- In the year 2053 mutants from the atomic war attempt to prevent a time traveler from returning to 1953.
- Reprints
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #3 ([June] 2010)
-
Indexer Notes
Story continued from the previous issue.
The Monkey Glands
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Paul Reinman (signed as Paul Reinman)
- Inks
- Paul Reinman (signed as Paul Reinman)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- C-686
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Franz Lukoff; Serge Lukoff; Aram
- Synopsis
- A man takes a serum of monkey glands in order to be sure that he will outlive his brother and inherit the estate but it turns him into an ape-like creature.
- Reprints
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #3 ([June] 2010)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
-
1.
The Man Who Cried Vampire!
-
2.
Sorcerer's Justice
-
3.
Ball of Fire!
-
4.
The Last Flying Saucer!
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5.
The Man from Tomorrow
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6.
The Monkey Glands
This issue was modified by, among others
- Boris Ammerlaan
- Bill Borre
- Chris Boyko
- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Peter Croome
- Steve Dasinger
- Ethan Hoddes
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