Uncanny Tales #49

(November 1956)

Footprints To Nowhere (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Vic Carrabotta

Inks:

Vic Carrabotta

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

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])

The Man With No Face (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script:

Carl Wessler

Pencils:

Gene Colan

Inks:

Gene Colan ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

K-719

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.

The Lifeless One (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Howard O'Donnell

Inks:

Howard O'Donnell

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

K-752

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])

The Man In the Satellite (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script:

Carl Wessler

Pencils:

Joe Orlando

Inks:

Joe Orlando

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

K-703

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])

Four Frightened People (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script:

Carl Wessler

Pencils:

George Roussos

Inks:

George Roussos

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

K-766

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.

Doubting Thomas (Table of Contents: 6)

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, 1951 series) #38 (October 1955) [as "Doubting Thomas"]

I Follow Him (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Ed Winiarski

Inks:

Ed Winiarski

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

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])