Uncanny Tales
#38
(December 1955)
Marvel,
1952 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Prime Publications, Inc.
- Brand
- Atlas [black & white]
- Editing
- Stan Lee
- Color
- Four Color
- Dimensions
- Standard Golden Age U. S.
- Paper Stock
- Newsprint
- Binding
- Saddle-stitched
- Publishing Format
- Was Ongoing Series
Behind the Locked Door!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bob Powell
- Inks
- Bob Powell
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- H-399
- Genre
- drama; fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- A man thinks himself a failure until he walks along a strange corridor in an abandoned house which shows him the positive consequences of his charitable acts.
- Reprints
-
in Crypt of Shadows (Marvel, 1973 series) #12 (September 1974) which is reprinted -
in L'Étonnant Spider-Man (Editions Héritage, 1969 series) #46 (avril 1975)
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The Big Surprise
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- H-583
Indexer Notes
Second page of text story continues after Plague. Info per Rob Imes, June 2014.
Something In Space!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Joe Sinnott
- Inks
- Joe Sinnott
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- H-446
- Genre
- science fiction
Morgan's Magic Picture
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Carl Wessler
- Pencils
- Bill Benulis
- Inks
- Bill Benulis
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- H-404
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- When a man paints objects onto the canvas of a picture containing a model who loves him, the objects magically appear. He cares only for wealth, not her, and so she leaves him and he finds that he cannot make objects appear without her.
- Reprints
- in Crypt of Shadows (Marvel, 1973 series) #21 (November 1975) which is reprinted
- in Fantastic Four (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #54 (Novembre 1975)
-
Indexer Notes
Wessler credit per bio published in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 24, No. 11, Nov 2013.
Plague!
comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Ed Winiarski
- Inks
- Ed Winiarski
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- H-508
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
in Indexer Notes
Similar plot to the Ditko story in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #44
The Pharaoh Walks
comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- Carl Wessler
- Pencils
- Manny Stallman
- Inks
- Manny Stallman
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- H-418
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- A bookkeeper who resents his job rides an Egyptian solar ship into the beyond where the Pharaoh makes him his bookkeeper for all eternity.
- Reprints
- in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #3 (April 1974)
-
Indexer Notes
Wessler credit per bio published in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 24, No. 11, Nov 2013.
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Pharoah Walks!
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1.
Behind the Locked Door!
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2.
The Big Surprise
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3.
Something In Space!
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4.
Morgan's Magic Picture
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5.
Plague!
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6.
The Pharaoh Walks
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