Uncanny Tales
#24
(September 1954)
Marvel,
1952 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Prime Publications, Inc.
- Brand
-
Atlas [black & white]
- Editing
- Stan Lee
Who's Who?
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Harry Anderson
- Inks
- Harry Anderson
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
Indexer Notes
Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.
Who's Who?
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Robert Q. Sale (signed as Robert Q. Sale)
- Inks
- Robert Q. Sale (signed as Robert Q. Sale)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- E-694
- Genre
- drama
- Synopsis
- A masterful plastic surgeon is having an affair with his assistant's wife and she thinks her husband will not grant her a divorce so he switches faces with his assistant thinking he can lose his wealth and begin again, but try as he might, he cannot convince the woman that he is not her husband but the man she really loves.
Indexer Notes
Job number added by Tom Lammers.
Plot elements in common with Face Off (Touchstone Pictures, 1997): two men surgically exchange faces and assume each other's identity.
No Human Hand
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Joe Sinnott (spot illustration)
- Inks
- Joe Sinnott (spot illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- B-32
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
-
from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #13 (October 1952)
-
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
Death!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Myron Fass (signed as Myron Fass)
- Inks
- Myron Fass (signed as Myron Fass)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- E-664
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A man wants a superstitious peasant girl for his wife, so when her husband is deathly ill, he gets the idea to disguise himself as Death and come during the night to carry off the husband. What he doesn't count on is the woman's fierce will to fight for her husband and she stabs him in the back. When she realizes who he is, the real Death appears and says that though he came for someone else, this one will suffice. Death leaves with the body of the slain man, sparing the woman's husband.
Indexer Notes
Job number added by Tom Lammers.
Wish You Were Here!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Paul S. Newman
- Pencils
- Mannie Banks (signed as Mannie Banks)
- Inks
- Mannie Banks (signed as Mannie Banks)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- E-698
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- A man finds a stagecoach that takes him back to the year 1880.
Indexer Notes
Job number added by Tom Lammers.
Script: Newman stated by Atlas Tales
The Last Man!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- E-622
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A man joins a club with a vampire where the goal is to outlive all other members.
Indexer Notes
Job number added by Tom Lammers.
Escape!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Clayton Martin
- Pencils
- Jerry Grandenetti ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- E-69 ?
- Genre
- crime
- Synopsis
- An escaped convict holds up a store for cash and the owner tosses hot pepper into his eyes. Blinded, he grabs a passerby and orders him to drive the getaway vehicle or he'll shoot. The man tells him he can't drive a car, but the crook tells him that tonight he's going to learn. His vision starts to clear and he gets a look at the person he has pressed into driving and sees that he's had the bad luck to grab a blind person off the street just before they go over a cliff.
Indexer Notes
Pencils/inks:
a) Possible Greene pencils/inks per Ger Apeldoorn via Atlas Tales.
b) Possible Grandenetti pencils, inks unknown by Vadeboncour Jr/Doc V/Atlas Tales
Possible job number added by Atlas Tales.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Who's Who?
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1.
Who's Who?
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2.
No Human Hand
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3.
Death!
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4.
Wish You Were Here!
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5.
The Last Man!
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6.
Escape!
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