Strange Tales
#54
(January 1957)
Marvel,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1956-10-03
- 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
Some information supplied by Tom Lammers and the Atlas/Timely discussion list. On-sale date from 1956 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
The Long Sleep!
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Bill Everett (signed)
- Inks
- Bill Everett (signed)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
-
in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #16, #150 ([circa 1976 - 1977]), #185 ([circa 1982 - 1983]) -
in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #6 ([December] 2013)
-
Indexer Notes
Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.
A Witch by Night
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- John Forte (signed)
- Inks
- John Forte (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Joe Letterese
- Job Number
- L-3
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- Ben meets young Abby and discovers she's a witch. Abby falls in love with him and, afraid of her power, he marries her.
- Reprints
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #75
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #30 ([circa 1964]), #156 ([circa 1975 - 1976])
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #6 ([December] 2013)
-
Indexer Notes
A story that shares plot elements with The Twilight Zone's "It's A Good Life".
The Long Sleep!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Carl Wessler
- Pencils
- Gray Morrow (signed)
- Inks
- Gray Morrow (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gray Morrow ?
- Job Number
- L-40
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A shot rang out in the dark!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Ted Pahl
- Synopsis
- A criminal thinks he has shot a night watchman and goes into suspended animation for forty years so that the police will forget about him, but when he comes out of the suspended animation, he reads in the old newspaper that his partner was the one who wounded the night watchman earlier in the evening and the police never suspected him.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Wessler credit per biblio info published in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 26, No. 4, April 2015.
Something Strange on the Sand!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- K-962
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- A man finds a city with a treasure that only appears once every several years and attempts to steal the treasure but fails.
- Reprints
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #30 ([circa 1964])
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #69 (1969)
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #156 ([circa 1975 - 1976])
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #6 ([December] 2013)
-
Trapped in the Dark!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Jack Oleck (sourced)
- Pencils
- Robert Q. Sale (signed)
- Inks
- Robert Q. Sale (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- K-931
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- A swindler whose conscience is bothering him finds himself locked in an amusement park fun house where he sees visions of the people he has cheated.
- Reprints
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #30 ([circa 1964])
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #6 ([December] 2013)
-
Robot Inventor
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- F-889
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Ned Carter; Mr. Jonas
- Synopsis
- A disgruntled janitor's obsessive effort to create a sweeping robot costs him his job and ends in failure, but only because he sees no use for a perpetual motion machine.
- Reprints
- from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #32 (June 1955) [retitled]
- in Weird Planets (Alan Class, 1962 series) #2 (1962)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #6 ([December] 2013)
-
Indexer Notes
Original title: "The Inventor."
The Man Who Talked!
comic story / 3 pages
- Job Number
- K-947
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- A ventriloquist loses his dummy overboard and the island natives are about to destroy it when the ventriloquist speaks for the dummy many miles away.
- Reprints
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #14, #209 ([circa 1985 - 1986])
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #6 ([December] 2013)
-
The Punishment of Paul Phillips!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- L-13
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- When a man testifying in court dreams of being executed due to circumstantial evidence he changes his attitude.
- Reprints
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #30 ([circa 1964])
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #69 (1969)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #6 ([December] 2013)
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Long Sleep!
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1.
A Witch by Night
-
2.
The Long Sleep!
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3.
Something Strange on the Sand!
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4.
Trapped in the Dark!
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5.
Robot Inventor
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6.
The Man Who Talked!
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7.
The Punishment of Paul Phillips!
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- Steve Coates
- Peter Croome
- Gary Henderson
- Ethan Hoddes
- Michael Hoskin
- Stephen Mitchell
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Mike Nielsen
- Gregory Roe
- Jim Van Dore
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