Strange Tales
#56
(March 1957)
Marvel,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1956-12-03
- 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 1957 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
Metal Master
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Bill Everett (signed as Bill Everett)
- Inks
- Bill Everett (signed as Bill Everett)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
-
in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #15 which is reprinted - in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #167 ([circa 1979 - 1980])
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #132 ([circa 1974 - 1975])
-
in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #6 ([December] 2013)
-
Indexer Notes
Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.
Something Is on This Ship!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- L-348
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- A ship's mate joins the haunted ship 'Sulu Queen' to find out if the rumors of ghosts are true. When the captain dies of fright, the mate has no idea if there were actual ghosts.
- 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)
-
Indexer Notes
Script credit by Martin O'Hearn.
The Metal Master!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- L-439
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- Paul tries to create a perfect artist by building a robot who can paint but the robot tries to hypnotize Paul to serve him. Paul destroys the robot.
- Reprints
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #92
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #15 which is reprinted
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #167 ([circa 1979 - 1980])
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #240 ([circa 1987 - 1988])
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #6 ([December] 2013)
-
More Than a Mortal!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Pete Morisi (signed as Pete Morisi)
- Inks
- Pete Morisi (signed as Pete Morisi)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- L-490
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- Joel thinks Shakespeare must have been more than mortal. Two men play a practical joke on him, only to realize later the man who told them to play the joke was Shakespeare.
- 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)
-
Hide-Out!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- L-444
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- Rick finds a piece of crystal which seems to grant his wishes. When he wishes his rivals would be put out of business, they are quickly shut down. However, when the police come for him Rick drops the crystal and it breaks before he can make a wish.
- 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 Fountain of Youth
text story / 1.67 pages
- Job Number
- G-269
- Reprints
- from Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #30 (June 1955) [as "Strange Meeting"]
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #92
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #15
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #240 ([circa 1987 - 1988])
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #6 ([December] 2013)
-
Nothing Can Stop It
comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- Jack Oleck
- Pencils
- Howard O'Donnell
- Inks
- Howard O'Donnell
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Morrie Kuramoto (sourced)
- Job Number
- L-104
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- Steven creates a universal solvent but it keeps dissolving through the Earth to an unknown fate.
- Reprints
The Shock!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- L-306
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- When Joe touches his radiator the electric charge teleports him across the country. Realizing he can commit robberies and avoid capture he steals from his employer then races home to touch his radiator, but because he didn't pay his bills the power has been shut off.
- 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)
-
Indexer Notes
Wessler credit per biblio info published in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 26, No. 4, April 2015.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Metal Master
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1.
Something Is on This Ship!
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2.
The Metal Master!
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3.
More Than a Mortal!
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4.
Hide-Out!
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5.
The Fountain of Youth
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6.
Nothing Can Stop It
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7.
The Shock!
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