Uncanny Tales
#44
(June 1956)
Marvel,
1952 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Prime Publications, Inc.
- Brand
-
Atlas [black & white]
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
Job numbers from atlastales.com.
Out of the Swamp!
cover / 1 page
- Reprints
in Indexer Notes
Burgos credit per Atlastales.com and Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Sol Brodsky.
Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.
Out of the Swamps!
comic story / 4 pages
- 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)
-
The Frightened Man!
comic story / 4 pages
- 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.
Beyond Belief!
comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Harry Lazarus (signed)
- Inks
- Harry Lazarus (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ray Holloway (sourced)
- 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)
-
Traveling Sam
text story / 2 pages
- 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 Girl Who Didn't Exist!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Carl Wessler
- Pencils
- Paul Reinman (signed)
- Inks
- Paul Reinman (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Morrie Kuramoto (sourced)
- 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.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Out of the Swamp!
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1.
Out of the Swamps!
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2.
The Frightened Man!
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3.
She Came From Nowhere!
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4.
Beyond Belief!
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5.
Traveling Sam
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6.
Planet of Doom
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7.
The Girl Who Didn't Exist!
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