Marvel Tales #110

(December 1952)

The Empty Bus! (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Syd Shores (signed)

Inks

Syd Shores (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

B-247

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

A mobster gets on a bus during a rainy night that has no other riders in order to track down one of his former boys who took it on the lam. Suddenly a strange old man appears beside him and offers to tell him a story. He foretells the mobster's death at the hand of the younger man as they struggle for the mobster's gun, but the criminal does not heed the prophecy and gets off the bus to meet with his appointed destiny.

Reprints

• in Dead of Night (Marvel, 1973 series) #9 (April 1975)

Harry's Hobby! (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

B-221

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Harry Botts; Stella Botts

Synopsis

An abusive wife pushes her husband past his breaking point.

Foolproof! (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee (signed)

Pencils

Russ Heath (signed as R. H.)

Inks

Russ Heath (signed as R. H.)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

B-237

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

A greedy landlord torches his building to collect the insurance but forgets one little detail in his plan.

Reprints

• in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #174 (June 1974)

No Such Animal? (Table of Contents: 4)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Russ Heath ? (illustration)

Inks

Russ Heath ? (illustration)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Job Number

B-115

Genre

horror-suspense

Reprints

• in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #31 (August 1954) [as "The Living Legend"]
which is reprinted
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #4 ([April] 2011)

Indexer Notes

Text story with spot illustration.

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promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Peter and the Puppet! (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bill Benulis (signed)

Inks

Jack Abel (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

B-236

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Peter Phillips; Oscar (the puppet); Mary Brown

Synopsis

A ventriloquist's dummy is actually alive and becomes a rival for his girlfriend's affections.

Reprints

• in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #9 (April 1975)

A Coffin for Carlos! (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Don Perlin (signed)

Inks

Abe Simon (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

B-198

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Carlos Lopes; Ricardo Lopes

Synopsis

A man visits a convicted killer in jail and offers to sell him a pill for five hundred dollars that will make him appear dead in order to cheat the electric chair. Once he has been buried, he will dig him up. The killer agrees, but has no money, so he extorts it out of his brother. He takes the pill and it works, but instead of taking him to the morgue, the police wheel him into a group of medical students with scalpels. It turns out his brother sold his body to dissection study for five hundred dollars.

Reprints

• in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #18 (April 1975)

Indexer Notes

cover story