Strange Tales #22

(September 1953)

The Untouchable! (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bernie Krigstein (signed as B. Krigstein)

Inks

Bernie Krigstein (signed as B. Krigstein)

Colors

?

Letters

Artie Simek

Job Number

C-696

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Mehtar; Boyles; Rangh

Synopsis

When a starving white man, who considers himself one of the highborn caste, takes food from an Untouchable the natives now consider him to be a part of that caste.

Reprints

• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #3 ([June] 2010)
• in Messages in a Bottle: Comic Book Stories by B. Krigstein (Fantagraphics, 2013 series) (April 2013)

The Easter Eggs (Table of Contents: 2)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Fred Kida ? (illustration)

Inks

Fred Kida ? (illustration)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Job Number

C-553

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

John Inger; Frank Inger; Charles Olsen; Hitchman

Reprints

• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #3 ([June] 2010)

What Happened on the Moon? (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Burt Frohman

Pencils

Bill Benulis (signed as Benulis)

Inks

Jack Abel (signed as Abel)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

C-914

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Edward Sharp

Synopsis

A scientist builds a robot that can survive the voyage to the moon, but when it arrives, it constructs a factory to duplicate an army of robots for the purpose of conquering Earth.

Reprints

• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #3 ([June] 2010)

Indexer Notes

Frohman credit confirmed from Frank Motler via a copy of Frohman's original script.

The Voice of Death (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bob McCarthy

Inks

Bob McCarthy

Colors

?

Letters

Joe Letterese (sourced)

Job Number

C-992

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Don Rugero; Edward Fenton; Lenora Fenton

Synopsis

An opera singer, who can shatter glass with his voice, is tried to be interrupted during his performance by a surgeon but the man fails to get to the singer in time. He hits the high note and dies because the surgeon had put a glass plate in his head.

Reprints

• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #3 ([June] 2010)

Too Good To Be True! (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

John Forte (signed as John Forte)

Inks

Matt Fox

Colors

?

Letters

Ray Holloway ? (sourced)

Job Number

C-921

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Charley

Synopsis

The Devil makes a gambler have good luck so he wins all his bets but his gambling partners do away with him to get their money back.

Reprints

• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #3 ([June] 2010)

The Corpse That Wasn't (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

John Buscema

Inks

John Buscema

Colors

?

Letters

Artie Simek

Job Number

C-899

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Al Verek; Nick Elton; Rashudra

Synopsis

A gangster pays a swami to put his partner under a post hypnotic suggestion to run into the path of a roller coaster.

Reprints

• in Marvel Visionaries: John Buscema (Marvel, 2006 series) (2006)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #3 ([June] 2010)
• in Marvel Visionaries: John Buscema (Marvel, 2019 series) (2019)

Indexer Notes

Additional info from the John Buscema checklist built by Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. and Michel Maillot.