Strange Tales #40

(November 1955)

This Dark Cave (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bill Benulis (signed as Bill Benulis)

Inks

Bill Benulis (signed as Bill Benulis)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

H-114

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

A man returns to his shelter after he mistakes a small town that has been evacuated in service of atomic bomb tests for the worldwide war that he has feared would come.

Reprints

• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #10
• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #81 ([circa 1969])
• in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #130 ([circa 1978 - 1979]), #161 ([circa 1982 - 1983])
• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #236 ([circa 1986 - 1987])
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #5 ([October] 2011)

The Search (Table of Contents: 2)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Job Number

G-790

Genre

jungle

Characters

Uwaga; Babu; Narodu

Reprints

• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #5 ([October] 2011)

A Stranger on Earth (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Everett ?

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed as Bill Everett)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed as Bill Everett)

Colors

?

Letters

Bill Everett

Job Number

H-116

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Lok

Synopsis

When an alien crash lands on Earth, he is met with violence by men, but is befriended and helped to return to his ship by a dog. From orbit he thinks about destroying the planet but realizes that would kill the dogs too and refrains from his plan.

Reprints

• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #10, #156 ([circa 1977 - 1978]), #191 ([circa 1983 - 1984])
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #5 ([October] 2011)

The Man Who Caught a Mermaid! (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

John Forte (signed as John Forte)

Inks

John Forte (signed as John Forte)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

G-867

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Joe Blair; Jeremy Torgan

Synopsis

A man attempts to play a joke on a skeptical friend by hiring a girl with a mermaid costume to be dropped into the sea by a helicopter and then brought out of ocean with a net. The trick works on his friend and he tells his men to throw the girl back but the friend thinks he is mad to release such an amazing discovery. He lets the man know that he set the stunt up to fool him when one of his men tells him that the girl he had hired had become ill that day and never showed up for the prank.

Reprints

• in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #28 (1962)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #5 ([October] 2011)

The End of Time! (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

John Forte (signed as John Forte)

Inks

John Forte (signed as John Forte)

Colors

?

Letters

Ray Holloway (sourced)

Job Number

H136

Genre

science fiction

Synopsis

God intervenes directly to stop militarists from rushing towards war.

Reprints

• in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #16 (1964 ?), #143 ([circa 1975 - 1976])
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #5 ([October] 2011)

No Place to Hide (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

Paul Reinman

Inks

Paul Reinman

Colors

?

Letters

Joe Letterese (sourced)

Job Number

G-850

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

David Reynolds; Joshua Swift

Synopsis

A judge sentences a man to ninety days in the workhouse for vagrancy and finds himself back in time 300 years. He is pulled off the street because of his strange clothes and the judge thinks his family photograph and cigar lighter are examples of black magic. He escapes and finds himself back in the present. He has second thoughts about the sentence he has passed and releases the man he had charged the previous day.

Reprints

• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #27 (1964 ?), #159 ([circa 1975 - 1976]), #192 ([circa 1980 - 1981])
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #5 ([October] 2011)

Indexer Notes

Writer credit from foreword by Michael J. Vassallo from Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #5 (Marvel, 2007 Series).