Strange Tales
#43
(February 1956)
Marvel,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1955-11-04
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Chipiden Publishing Corp.
- Brand
-
Atlas [black & white]
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1955 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
The Mysterious Machine!
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Russ Heath (signed as Russ Heath)
- Inks
- Russ Heath (signed as Russ Heath)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg (sourced)
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
-
in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #5 ([October] 2011)
-
The Man Who Lived Twice!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Paul S. Newman
- Pencils
- Tony DiPreta (signed as DiPreta)
- Inks
- Tony DiPreta (signed as DiPreta)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek (sourced) (title); ?
- Job Number
- H-564
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Hal Walters
- Synopsis
- A man dying on the operating table finds that time has stopped for everybody but him. He intuits that eventually time will start back up, but he uses the time he has been given to do good deeds for people.
- Reprints
-
in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #19 (1964 ?), #183 ([circa 1980 - 1981]), #239 ([circa 1988 - 1989]) - in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #5 ([October] 2011)
-
Indexer Notes
Title lettering is by Artie Simek. The rest is by an unknown letterer.
The Swami
text story / 1.6 pages
- Job Number
- H-746
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Rijak Lobar; John McDermott
- Synopsis
- A greedy man misinterprets a fortune-teller's prediction and spends money that he'll never have.
- Reprints
- in Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #58 (April 1957) [as "The Crystal Ball"]
- in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #60 (September 1960)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #5 ([October] 2011)
-
I Saved Mankind!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- John Forte (signed as John Forte)
- Inks
- John Forte (signed as John Forte)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Morrie Kuramoto (sourced)
- Job Number
- H-597
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Lester Harmon
- Synopsis
- A man drives off aliens that were attempting to pour canisters into water reservoirs but the contents would have made people immune to disease.
- Reprints
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #19 (1964 ?)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #5 ([October] 2011)
-
Behind the Mask!
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- H-625
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Joe Fenton; Agnes Fenton; Ogu
- Synopsis
- A clown who can't have children finds an abandoned baby and takes him in only to discover the seeming infant is an alien spy. He is about to turn the creature in until he overhears the spy give his report to his superiors and requests that he be able to remain a human infant since he loves his adoptive parents.
- Reprints
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #19 (1964 ?), #183 ([circa 1980 - 1981]), #239 ([circa 1988 - 1989])
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #5 ([October] 2011)
-
Indexer Notes
Possible Giella inks per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Bob Brown.
The Mysterious Machine!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- H587
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Fred Harper; Louella Harper
- Synopsis
- A man invents a machine that changes his wife from harping shrew to devoted haus frau.
- Reprints
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #18 (1964 ?), #153 ([circa 1976 - 1977]), #191 ([circa 1981 - 1982])
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #5 ([October] 2011)
-
The Unbelievable Man!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Paul S. Newman
- Pencils
- Bob Forgione (signed as Forgione)
- Inks
- Jack Abel (signed as Abel)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Morrie Kuramoto (sourced)
- Job Number
- H-613
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Professor Bryce; Davis; Noah Javis
- Synopsis
- A man from 1793 uses a time machine to bring electronic parts from 1956 into the past for his experiments until he is interrupted by researchers. They force him to return to the past without the last component he needs for his work and all the electric lights around the world go out.
- Reprints
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #19 (1964 ?)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #5 ([October] 2011)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Mysterious Machine!
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1.
The Man Who Lived Twice!
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2.
The Swami
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3.
I Saved Mankind!
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4.
Behind the Mask!
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5.
The Mysterious Machine!
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6.
The Unbelievable Man!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Boris Ammerlaan
- Bill Borre
- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Peter Croome
- Steve Dasinger
- Mike DeLisa
- Gary Henderson
- Ethan Hoddes
- Lou Mazzella
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