Strange Stories of Suspense #10

(August 1956)

The Weeds (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Mort Meskin (signed)

Inks

Mort Meskin (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

J-778

Genre

fantasy-supernatural

Synopsis

Sailors enter the Sargasso sea and find that the seaweed there prolongs life and slows awareness of time when eaten because, when a hurricane develops and they are able to take advantage of the winds to leave the small island that they were marooned on, they come back to a futuristic port many years after they started.

Reprints

• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #6 (1962), #239 ([circa 1987 - 1988])

In the Shadows (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Reed Crandall

Inks

Reed Crandall

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

J-620

Genre

fantasy-supernatural

Synopsis

When a man gets in a plane crash, a creature from another dimension offers to heal his wounds if he will love it. He agrees, but he notices odd things about the woman over time and she admits to him that she is not human. She begs him to forget what she has told him, but he backs away from her, so she transports him back to the scene of the crash. The creature heals him once again, but this time, disappears forever leaving the man with a strange sense of loss.

Reprints

• in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #13
• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #6 (1962), #239 ([circa 1987 - 1988])

Flee for Your Life! (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

Paul Hodge (signed)

Inks

Paul Hodge (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

J-645

Genre

science fiction

Synopsis

When a Martian father tells his son that things are bad on Mars, he tries to get an Earth couple to adopt him, but they realize he is a Martian and plan to turn him over to authorities. The boy flees, and spends years as a thief just to get by. After finding his sister, who has married a human and produced children without green hair like he has, he decides to use the flying saucer his father left behind to return to Mars in hopes that things are better there now.

Reprints

• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #55, #6 (1962), #239 ([circa 1987 - 1988])

Indexer Notes

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

The Secret of the Black Forest (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

Angelo Torres

Inks

Angelo Torres

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

J-688

Genre

science fiction

Synopsis

A visitor from Jupiter finds the humans ungrateful to him when he attempts to build them modern domiciles.

Reprints

• in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #13
• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #6 (1962), #239 ([circa 1987 - 1988])

Indexer Notes

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

Genius for Trouble (Table of Contents: 5)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

John Tartaglione

Inks

John Tartaglione

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Job Number

J-931

Reprints

• in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #55 (July 1957) [as "The Genius"]
which is reprinted
• in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #4 (1960)
• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #6 (1962), #239 ([circa 1987 - 1988])

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration.

The Crisis! (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Vic Carrabotta (signed)

Inks

Vic Carrabotta (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

J-693

Genre

science fiction

Reprints

• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #6 (1962)

Indexer Notes

A plot similar to "Fantastic Voyage"

The Long Sleep! (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

John Forte (signed)

Inks

John Forte (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

J-745

Genre

science fiction

Synopsis

A scientist looks down on the laborer that he has construct his suspended animation cabinet, but after awaking one thousand years in the future, he finds that he has only enough mental capacity for manual labor and comes to be content with his place in society.

Reprints

• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #55, #6 (1962), #239 ([circa 1987 - 1988])

Indexer Notes

Forte credits by Michael J. Vassallo, 2002-12-03 (Per Sandell ed.)