(August 1962)
Alan Class,
1962 Series
- Price
- 1'- [0-1-0 GBP]
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Alan Class & Co. Ltd
- Editing
- Alan Class (reprint editor)
Stormy Night!
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Bill Everett
- Inks
- Bill Everett
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original editor)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
-
from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #59 (May 1957)
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Stormy Night!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- L-692
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- Alien invaders attack an ocean liner from a ship disguised as a storm cloud. A real hurricane approaches and sinks the aliens.
- Reprints
- from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #59 (May 1957)
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What Happened to Hassen?
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Mac L. Pakula (signed)
- Inks
- Mac L. Pakula (signed)
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- L-710
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Reprints
- from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #59 (May 1957)
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The Empty City
comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- 9523
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- A reporter stumbles upon aliens who are taking the place of humans. He tries to give the story to his editor, but his editor is one of...them.
- Reprints
- from Adventures into Weird Worlds (Marvel, 1952 series) #3 (March 1952)
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What Lurks Out There!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- H-566
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- Humans decode a message from space warning other aliens to beware of the human presence on Earth.
- Reprints
- from Journey into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1950 series) #42 (February 1956)
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Indexer Notes
Art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group ([email protected]) April 2010.
The Sleep-walker!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Carl Wessler
- Pencils
- Richard Doxsee (signed)
- Inks
- Richard Doxsee (signed)
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- L-700
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Reprints
- from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #59 (May 1957)
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Indexer Notes
Wessler credit per biblio info published in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 26, No. 4, April 2015.
Life Or Death
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- H-521
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- Earth men are threatened with snow cover and conduct a vote whether they will invade another planet or not. When the vote is against invasion, the sunlight breaks through the cloud cover.
- Reprints
- from Journey into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1950 series) #42 (February 1956)
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Ultimate Weapon
comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ?
- Pencils
- Vic Carrabotta (signed)
- Inks
- Vic Carrabotta (signed)
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- K-233
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- Foreign powers kidnap a scientist and he builds a teleportation machine to return back home.
- Reprints
- from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #150 (September 1956)
-
Lost in a Legend
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- J-773
- Genre
- jungle
- Reprints
- from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #59 (May 1957) which is reprinted
- from Journey into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1950 series) #47 (July 1956) [as "Lost in a Legend"]
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I Plunged Into Darkness!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- K-166
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- A mountain climber meets a girl made of ice who saves his life and they fall in love. The ice people patriarch implants a mental block in the climber so that he will return to his own people, but it is less than 100% effective, because his love for her is so strong it produces repetitive falling dreams.
- Reprints
- from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #150 (September 1956)
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Indexer Notes
Art credits from Saltarella via the GCD Error Tracker and atlastales.com.
Something Waits on the Mountain!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bernie Krigstein (signed)
- Inks
- Bernie Krigstein (signed)
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- L-635
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #59 (May 1957)
-
Jigsaw
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- L-364
- Genre
- science fiction; spy
- Reprints
- from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #59 (May 1957)
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The Fatal Words!
comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Howard O'Donnell (signed)
- Inks
- Howard O'Donnell (signed)
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- L-638
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Reprints
- from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #59 (May 1957)
-
The Village That Cried!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Syd Shores (signed)
- Inks
- Syd Shores (signed)
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- H-674
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- Space explorers do not recognize the life forms that they land amidst.
- Reprints
- from Journey into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1950 series) #42 (February 1956)
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The House of Shadows!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ?
- Pencils
- Mac L. Pakula (signed)
- Inks
- Mac L. Pakula (signed)
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- K-347
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- Visitors from the future bring joy to a small town and then take the entire town with them back to the future.
- Reprints
- from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #150 (September 1956)
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Indexer Notes
Art credits from atlastales.com.
The Man from Nowhere
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- K-224
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- A careless man summons a genie and wishes for wealth and power, but because he has failed to form the summoning circle correctly, the genie transforms him into a bum.
- Reprints
- from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #150 (September 1956)
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Indexer Notes
Art credits from atlastales.com.
The Shrinking Man!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- K-229
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- A lab assistant knocks over a container filled with a new mold and thinks that the effect has shrunk him but it actually only works on inorganic matter and has enlarged the furniture and the house.
- Reprints
- from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #150 (September 1956)
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Watch for Future Issues of these Exciting Tales
promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Inside Cover.
On sale shortly: Secrets of the Unknown #1 with a picture of the cover.
Both Creepy & Secrets of the Unknown had an advert for each other.
Has the indicia and address at bottom of the page.
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Table of Contents
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0.
Stormy Night!
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1.
Stormy Night!
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2.
What Happened to Hassen?
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3.
The Empty City
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4.
What Lurks Out There!
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5.
The Sleep-walker!
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6.
Life Or Death
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7.
Ultimate Weapon
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8.
Lost in a Legend
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9.
I Plunged Into Darkness!
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10.
Something Waits on the Mountain!
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11.
Jigsaw
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12.
The Fatal Words!
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13.
The Village That Cried!
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14.
The House of Shadows!
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15.
The Man from Nowhere
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16.
The Shrinking Man!
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17.
They Lived Long Ago.
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18.
Watch for Future Issues of these Exciting Tales
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- Guy Budziak
- Jay Flash
- Katy Hayhurst
- Steve Jenner
- Ramon Schenk
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