Sinister Tales
#129
([circa 1974 - 1975])
Alan Class,
1964 Series
- Price
- 0.10 GBP
- Pages
- 52
- On-sale Date
- 1974 ?
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Alan Class & Co. Ltd
- Brand
-
AC Approved Comic
- Editing
- Alan Class (reprint editor)
Issue Notes
Issue is undated. Estimated date based on analysis of brands and cover prices in the series.
Gorgilla Strikes Again!
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (signed)
- Inks
- Dick Ayers (signed)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Gorgilla
- Reprints
-
from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #18 (April 1961)
-
Gorgilla Strikes Again! [, Part 1]
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (signed)
- Inks
- Dick Ayers (signed)
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Editing
- Stan Lee
- Job Number
- V-122
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Gorgilla; Scotty; Anne
- Synopsis
- Gorgilla stows away on a ship to America to contact the human race, but is met with fear and violence in New York. He stumbles across some communist spies and stops an assassination, but is killed by the military out of fear.
- Reprints
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #18 (April 1961)
-
Gorgilla Strikes Again!, Part 2
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (signed)
- Inks
- Dick Ayers (signed)
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Editing
- Stan Lee
- Job Number
- V-122
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Gorgilla; Scotty; Anne
- Reprints
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #18 (April 1961)
-
Prison Without Bars
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- K-475
- Genre
- crime
- Synopsis
- A criminal is set free from jail if he agrees to a form of behavioral control by hypnotism ala "A Clockwork Orange".
- Reprints
- from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #41 (December 1956)
-
The Question That Can't Be Answered!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- John Forte (signed)
- Inks
- John Forte (signed)
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Stan Lee
- Job Number
- K-420
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A reporter thinks reincarnation a scam and so he plans to expose a hypnotist who has prepared a hoax with his wife to channel a spirit through time.
- Reprints
- from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #40 (November 1956)
-
The Swirling Mist!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Carl Wessler
- Pencils
- Joe Sinnott (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Sinnott (signed)
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Stan Lee
- Job Number
- K-575
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- A man finds himself on a steamboat that transports him through time.
- Reprints
- from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #41 (December 1956)
-
Indexer Notes
Wessler credit from his record books, per Robin Snyder's the Comics,Vol 25, No. 8, August 2014.
Beware!!! Of the Little Toy Men!!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Stan Lee
- Job Number
- T-677
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- A man says that he is an alien distributing toy men in order to attack Earth, but only one reporter believes him. He convinces others when he explains that he saw a wind-up key in the man's back.
- Reprints
- from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #58 (May 1960)
-
Humans...Keep Out!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- K-737
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- Scientists are driven off the moon by lifeforms that they themselves engineered to live without oxygen so as to colonize the moon.
- Reprints
- from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #42 (January 1957)
-
The Disappearing Man
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Carl Wessler
- Pencils
- Gray Morrow (signed)
- Inks
- Gray Morrow (signed)
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Stan Lee
- Job Number
- K-815
- Synopsis
- Wessler script per Nick Caputo from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
- Reprints
- from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #42 (January 1957)
-
I Was Trapped in Horror House!
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Paul Reinman (signed)
- Inks
- Paul Reinman (signed)
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Editing
- Stan Lee
- Job Number
- T-725
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Joe Kane; Charlie Jordon
- Synopsis
- A convict escapes from death row and hides in a haunted house in an amusement park. A mysterious figure leads him into hotter and hotter tunnels and he never emerges from the house.
- Reprints
- from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #59 (July 1960)
-
The Savages
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Angelo Torres (signed)
- Inks
- Angelo Torres (signed)
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Stan Lee
- Job Number
- K-825
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- This story postulates that the first humans were actually Martians whose spaceship developed engine trouble.
- Reprints
- from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #42 (January 1957)
-
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Gorgilla Strikes Again!
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1.
[no title indexed]
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2.
Gorgilla Strikes Again! [, Part 1]
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3.
Gorgilla Strikes Again!, Part 2
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4.
Prison Without Bars
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5.
The Question That Can't Be Answered!
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6.
The Swirling Mist!
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7.
Beware!!! Of the Little Toy Men!!
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8.
Humans...Keep Out!
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9.
The Disappearing Man
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10.
I Was Trapped in Horror House!
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11.
The Savages
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12.
[no title indexed]
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13.
Companion Comics in this Series
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