Strange Tales
#65
(October 1958)
Marvel,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1958-06-24
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Chipiden Publishing Corp.
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
Includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. The stories all bear the tag line, "A Tale of Mystery to Hold You Spellbound!" used by the cancelled Spellbound (Marvel, 1952 series), perhaps indicating the issue was built from pre-implosion inventory. Information supplied by Tom Lammers and the Atlas/Timely discussion list. On-sale date from 1958 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
Afraid to Open the Door!
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Morse; John Hayes
- Reprints
-
in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #24 (1963 ?), #154 ([circa 1975 - 1976]), #188 ([circa 1979 - 1980])
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Indexer Notes
John Hayes is a ghost on the cover, but not in the story.
Afraid to Open the Door!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Jack Oleck (sourced)
- Pencils
- Dan Loprino (signed)
- Inks
- Dan Loprino (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Joe Letterese (sourced)
- Job Number
- M-346
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Morse; John Hayes
- Synopsis
- A thief trying to rob a reclusive scientist finds him in a room with two doors. The scientist tells him if he leaves through the wrong door he will be trapped in a shadow world of strange creatures so the criminal decides to wait until someone else enters by one of the doors so that he knows which one leads back to the ordinary world.
- Reprints
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #77, #24 (1963 ?), #154 ([circa 1975 - 1976]), #188 ([circa 1979 - 1980])
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The House That Cried!
comic story / 3 pages
- Job Number
- M-332
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Smitty; Elvira Lanson; Luke Lanson (flashback); Fred (flashback); Helen (flashback); Tony Fargo (flashback)
- Synopsis
- A hobo tries to rob an old woman in a dilapidated house who turns out to be a ghost.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Wessler script per Biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol. 31, No. 2, February 2020.
Pencil and ink credits of J. Makowski ? changed based on information from Tom Lammers and the Atlas/Timely discussion list.
The Ragged Man
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Richard Doxsee (signed as
Richard Doxsee) - Inks
- Richard Doxsee (signed as Richard Doxsee)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- M-486
- Genre
- drama
- Characters
- Otis Larr; Hubert Larr; Annie
- Synopsis
- A heartless businessman gets what's coming to him when the geiger counter he keeps on his yacht goes off and he spends all his money buying worthless land because he thinks that there is a fortune in uranium underwater. It turns out that there was a nuclear sub under his yacht at the time.
- Reprints
The Terrible Tree!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- John Forte (signed as John Forte)
- Inks
- John Forte (signed as John Forte)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- M-319
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Ross Evans
- Synopsis
- A man weakens a large redwood tree so that it will fall on his farm and he can collect on the insurance policy. Objects made from the tree pursue vengeance upon him, until he finds himself trapped on a boat made of the tree out at sea.
- Reprints
The Perfectly Frightened Man
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Robert Q. Sale (signed as Robert Q. Sale)
- Inks
- Robert Q. Sale (signed as Robert Q. Sale)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ray Holloway (sourced)
- Job Number
- M-348
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Bob Franklin; Helen Franklin
- Synopsis
- A man is convinced by his wife that he is the victim of a hoax designed to make him think he has inherited sorcerous powers, but when he says "I'll be a monkey's uncle", he turns into one.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Robert Q. Sale’s signature appears on the cake mix packet in the first panel.
The Missing Film
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- John Severin (illustration)
- Inks
- John Severin (illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- J-707
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; spy
- Characters
- Dr. Title; Douglas Jenks
- Synopsis
- A government agent retrieves a classified microfilm stolen to be given to enemy agents, and is helped by a magic bridge.
- Reprints
-
from Adventure into Mystery (Marvel, 1956 series) #7 (May 1957) [as "The Bridge"] which is reprinted - from Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #42 (June 1956) [as "The Bridge"]
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Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
When the Curtain Falls!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- M-397
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Otto Groat; Carlotta Delys; Richard Sinclair
- Synopsis
- A jealous stagehand swaps a real dagger for a rubber prop hoping that his actor rival will stab himself and he will be free to pursue his love interest without competition. The actor only scratches himself, however, and when the stagehand becomes trapped he fails to free himself in time armed with merely a rubber dagger.
- Reprints
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Afraid to Open the Door!
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1.
Afraid to Open the Door!
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2.
The House That Cried!
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3.
The Ragged Man
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4.
The Terrible Tree!
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5.
The Perfectly Frightened Man
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6.
The Missing Film
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7.
When the Curtain Falls!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Boris Ammerlaan
- Bill Borre
- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Ethan Hoddes
- Mike Nielsen
- Gregory Roe
- Jim Van Dore
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