Uncanny Tales #12

(September 1953)

The New Tenants (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bill Everett

Inks:

Bill Everett

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

C-946

Genre:

horror-suspense

Synopsis:

A man works for a miser who cheats people on real estate deals until he gets so fed up with his boss selling run down dumps to kindly old folks that he kills him and shores up the floor support in the cellar with the man's body.

Reprints:

• in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #9 (February 1974)

Dead End (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script:

Burt Frohman

Pencils:

Tom Gill

Inks:

Tom Gill

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

C-925

Genre:

horror-suspense; science fiction

Synopsis:

A man travels back in time and kills his younger self.

Reprints:

• in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #2 (February 1974)

Indexer Notes

script credit taken from Frohman's copy. Script dated June 1953.

Bertha Gets Buried (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Sam Kweskin (signed)

Inks:

Sam Kweskin (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

C-961

Genre:

crime; horror-suspense

Synopsis:

A man assumes his wife is cheating, kills her, and buries her in the cellar. It turns out that the man he thought she was cheating with is a handyman she hired to clean out the cellar like her husband asked her to. He is digging up the floor to lay down cement when he uncovers her body.

Reprints:

• in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #10 (April 1974)
• in James Bond (Semic, 1965 series) #39/[1976] ([2 mars] 1976)

The Man from Outer Space (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bob Powell

Inks:

Bob Powell

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

C-853

Genre:

science fiction

Synopsis:

A woman on a farm who is always complaining that she doesn't have six hands to do all the work that she is asked to gets her wish when an alien crash lands in the barn with the power to grow new limbs.

Reprints:

• in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #3 (April 1974)

The Phantom Gladiator (Table of Contents: 5)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

? (illustration)

Inks:

? (illustration)

Colors:

? (illustration)

Letters:

typeset

Job Number:

D-184

Devil's Island (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Paul Reinman

Inks:

Paul Reinman

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

C-925

Genre:

fantasy-supernatural

Synopsis:

A man takes his unfaithful lover in the dark to the largest pearl she has ever seen. It's still inside the giant clam which closes on her.

Reprints:

• in Crypt of Shadows (Marvel, 1973 series) #10 (May 1974)