Sinister Tales
#81
- Price
- 1/- [0-1-0 GBP]
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Alan Class & Co. Ltd
- Brand
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AC Approved Comic
- Editing
- Alan Class (reprint editor)
The Woman Who Played with Dolls!
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
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from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #48 (August 1957)
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The Woman Who Played with Dolls
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- M-127
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Elsa Beatty
- Synopsis
- A wealthy woman shrinks people who try to rob her and plays with them in a doll house.
Indexer Notes
Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Wessler script per Nick Caputo from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
Behind the Mask!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- M-126
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Bruce Chalmers
- Synopsis
- A man in his sixties pays a doctor ten thousand dollars for a mask that will allow him to look younger in order to court a woman in her twenties, but the end of the story reveals that she is also an older person who has paid for such a mask.
Indexer Notes
Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Wessler script per Nick Caputo from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
Behind the Iron Gate!
comic story / 3 pages
- Job Number
- L-1000
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Chuck Morgan
Indexer Notes
Letters: Letterese credited by Haydn.
I Follow Him!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- K-750
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- A mind reader encounters a disguised alien who comes from a planet rich with gold and diamonds and he decides to blackmail treasure out of him or he'll expose him, however, the aliens easily apprehend him because they all read minds.
The Lifeless One!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- K-752
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- An ugly man pours his heart out to a store mannequin who turns out to be an alien spy. She takes him to her world and they live happily ever after.
Trapped in the Burning Sands
comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- crime; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Hans Loring
The Man in the Satellite
comic story / 3 pages
- Job Number
- K-703
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Jerry Owens
- Synopsis
- A convict who hides in a satellite stays in orbit for fifty years.
Indexer Notes
Sequel to K-534 "They'll Never Find Me" in the previous issue; note in splash reads in part, "Those of you who read a story called 'They'll Never Find Me!', in the previous issue of Uncanny Tales, may recall ... Here follows a sequel to that strange story!" (Note by Tom Lammers)
What Waits in the Dungeon?
comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- crime; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Signor Fillipo
Footprints to Nowhere!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- K-807
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Lewis
- Synopsis
- A man jealous that he won't get the credit for discovering the missing link takes some dynamite to blow it up, but all he succeeds in doing is releasing it and it attacks him.
The Disappearing Man!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- M-310
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Farrell; Ellis; Clay
- Synopsis
- A scientist who disappeared years ago returns, explaining that he is now king of an alternate dimension. His greedy friend hopes to take over the dimension for himself, but ends up imprisoned indefinitely.
The Eyes That Never Close!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- M-412
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Jeff Corley; Leo Hutten
- Synopsis
- A prisoner tries to escape using a mystic idol, but it will only take the evil on doomed journeys through time, and he is trapped in Hiroshima just before the bomb falls.
He Never Came Out!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- M-424
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Joe Morse; Pete Atkins; Mr. Cartel
- Synopsis
- A wax museum owner claims that his statues are criminals petrified by the head of Medusa. When a thief ignores this warning and tries to rob him, the museum gains a new statue.
Indexer Notes
Oleck script per Martin O'Hearn: http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2021/06/strange-tales-by-jack-oleck.html
The Spectre
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- M-347
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Burt Malone; Mysto the Mystic
- Synopsis
- A race car driver refuses to drive after he sees a ghost. His manager thinks it is a hallucination, and pays a mystic to convince him it is safe, but the reappearance of the ghost after the mystic’s crystal breaks suggests that it is real.
Indexer Notes
Giordano art per Dr. Michael J. Vassallo. Previous indexer credited Doug Wildey.
Uncork It... If You Dare!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Carl Wessler ? (sourced)
- Pencils
- Howard O'Donnell
- Inks
- Howard O'Donnell
- Letters
- Ben Oda ? (sourced)
- Job Number
- M-414
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Harold Simpson; Flora Simpson
- Synopsis
- A meek man is left a bottle of gas that changes personalities. Instead of using it to become more daring, he uses it on UN diplomats. The gas has unexpected effects, but in the end he uses all of it to avert war, though no one knows the sacrifice he made.
Indexer Notes
Letters: Probably not [Artie] Simek, if one compares his late 1950s work across the Marvel line.
Ben Oda seems to be a better guess.
What Lurks in the Mountain?
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- V-157
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The Communists are cruel masters in a recently invaded land!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- A communist general demands that the lama tell him of the alien space ship that has landed for repairs. At first the lama refuses to allow the aliens to be conquered by the communists, but he relents after the general threatens to execute all the peasants. The soldiers march off to the mountain the lama has indicated, but after a fruitless search they conclude the lama must have been lying. Suddenly, the mountain begins to shake violently and the soldiers realize too late as it blasts off that the mountain was the space ship.
Indexer Notes
This story is most likely meant to be set in Tibet. One of the aliens imagined by soldiers looks much like the later Ditko creation the Mindless Ones. Alterations in art are apparent on page two, panels 1, 3 and 5 (the villain was originally holding a gun or a whip); and page 3, panel 1, where the entire panel is redrawn, possibly by Sol Brodsky. Changes were likely made at the request of the Comics Code Authority. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
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The Woman Who Played with Dolls!
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Tricky!
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The Woman Who Played with Dolls
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Behind the Mask!
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Behind the Iron Gate!
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I Follow Him!
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The Lifeless One!
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Trapped in the Burning Sands
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The Man in the Satellite
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What Waits in the Dungeon?
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The New Pupil
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Footprints to Nowhere!
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The Disappearing Man!
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The Eyes That Never Close!
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He Never Came Out!
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The Spectre
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Uncork It... If You Dare!
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What Lurks in the Mountain?
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The Man Who Couldn't Breathe!
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Companion Comics in this Series
- Doug Brain
- Ramon Schenk
- Richard Thomson
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