Uncanny Tales #49

(November 1956)

The Man with No Face (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

Gene Colan

Inks

Gene Colan ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

K-719

Genre

fantasy-supernatural

Synopsis

A rich man becomes annoyed when he sees a junk dealer's horse and wagon move in next to him. The end of the story reveals that the neighbor is an earlier version of himself. His success had poisoned the compassion that he used to feel for people, but now that he has faced what he has become, he resolves to turn over a new leaf.

Reprints

• in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #29 (1968 ?)
• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #4 ([no date])

Indexer Notes

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

Four Frightened People (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

George Roussos

Inks

George Roussos

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

K-766

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The great lord Han had given a command!

Genre

science fiction

Reprints

• in Zombie (L. Miller & Son, 1961 series) #3 ([circa 1961])
• in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #22 (1962)

Indexer Notes

"Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" without Santa Claus. Wessler script per Nick Caputo from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.

I Follow Him! (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Ed Winiarski

Inks

Ed Winiarski

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

K-750

Genre

science fiction

Synopsis

A mind reader encounters a disguised alien who comes from a planet rich with gold and diamonds and he decides to blackmail treasure out of him or he'll expose him, however, the aliens easily apprehend him because they all read minds.

Reprints

• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #5 ([no date])

The Lifeless One (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Howard O'Donnell

Inks

Howard O'Donnell

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

K-752

Genre

science fiction

Synopsis

An ugly man pours his heart out to a store mannequin who turns out to be an alien spy. She takes him to her world and they live happily ever after.

Reprints

• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #5 ([no date])

Doubting Thomas (Table of Contents: 5)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

G-750

Genre

fantasy-supernatural

Characters

Tommy; Kitty Blake; Old King Cole

Synopsis

A man with no imagination is invited to a costume party by his girlfriend, but stumbles across real fairy-tale folk instead.

Reprints

• from Journey into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1950 series) #38 (October 1955) [as "Doubting Thomas"]

The Man in the Satellite (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

Joe Orlando

Inks

Joe Orlando

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

K-703

Genre

science fiction

Synopsis

A convict who hides in a satellite stays in orbit for fifty years.

Reprints

• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #5 ([no date])

Footprints to Nowhere (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Vic Carrabotta

Inks

Vic Carrabotta

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

K-807

Genre

fantasy-supernatural

Synopsis

A man jealous that he won't get the credit for discovering the missing link takes some dynamite to blow it up, but all he succeeds in doing is releasing it and it attacks him.

Reprints

• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #5 ([no date])