Uncanny Tales #44

(June 1956)

Out of the Swamps (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Dick Ayers

Inks

Dick Ayers

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

J-615

Genre

horror-suspense; science fiction

Synopsis

A scientist discovers a type of lemur living in the swamp that only lives for a week. He gets the idea to conduct an experiment in accelerated evolution and they produce wondrous discoveries which he shares with mankind. His contact with the outside world wants the power that such information would give him and so, after defeating the villain, the lemurs decide to return to the swamp where they will soon go back to their old ways of living.

Reprints

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

She Came From Nowhere (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

John Forte

Inks

John Forte

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

J-672

Beyond Belief (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Harry Lazarus (signed)

Inks

Harry Lazarus (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

J-690

Genre

science fiction

Synopsis

An inventor develops a gas that suspends gravity and tests it out on a various houses before announcing his demands to the government. A stray dog jumps through an open window looking for a handout but the man shouts at it to get out. When it jumps back out the window it knocks over the entire canister of the gas sending the man's house into orbit.

Reprints

• in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #4 (June 1974)
which is reprinted
• in L'Étonnant Spider-Man (Editions Héritage, 1969 series) #36 (juin 1974)

Planet of Doom (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bob McCarty

Inks

Bob McCarty

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

J-779

The Girl Who Didn't Exist (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

Paul Reinman (signed)

Inks

Paul Reinman (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

J-566

Genre

fantasy-supernatural

Synopsis

An archeologist fancies the maiden statue that is uncovered among Roman ruins so much that he is drawn back in time to marry her and become the next Caesar.

Reprints

• in Dead of Night (Marvel, 1973 series) #2 (February 1974)

Indexer Notes

Wessler script per Nick Caputo from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.

Travelling Sam (Table of Contents: 6)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

Job Number

J-850

Genre

fantasy-supernatural

Characters

Sam Craig

Synopsis

A bookkeeper gives up his fantasies of travel and goes back to handball after a strange encounter with two Indian magicians.

Reprints

• in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #107 (August 1964) [page 1], #108 (September 1964) [page 2]

The Frightened Man! (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

George Roussos (signed)

Inks

George Roussos (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

J-646

Genre

crime

Synopsis

A man disguises himself as an alien from Pluto to fool a paranoid dictator into imprisoning his entire cabinet on suspicion of treason so that the people can overthrow him.

Reprints

• in Dead of Night (Marvel, 1973 series) #2 (February 1974)

Indexer Notes

Wessler script per Nick Caputo from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.