Sinister Tales
#163
([circa 1978 - 1979])
Alan Class,
1964 Series
- Price
- 0.15 GBP
- Pages
- 52
- On-sale Date
- 1978 ?
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Alan Class & Co. Ltd
- Brand
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AC Class Series
- 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
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original editor)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Gorgilla
- Reprints
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from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #18 (April 1961)
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Gorgilla Strikes Again!
comic story / 13 pages
- Job Number
- V-122
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Gorgilla
Prison Without Bars
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- K-475
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Harvey Cowan
- Synopsis
- A criminal is set free from jail if he agrees to a form of behavioral control by hypnotism ala "A Clockwork Orange".
The Question That Can't Be Answered!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- K-420
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Ned Parker
- 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.
The Swirling Mist!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- K-575
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Jeff Coates found the greatest story of his career when he boarded the ancient boat docked in the cold, bleak grayness of the dawn!
- Genre
- detective-mystery; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Jeff Coates
- Synopsis
- A man finds himself on a steamboat that transports him through time.
Beware!!! Of the Little Toy Men!!
comic story / 5 pages
- 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.
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.
The Disappearing Man
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- K-815
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Fight manager Fritz Luder's new heavyweight was a walking gold mine!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Fritz Luders; Edda Hugel
- Synopsis
- A fight manager has his wife stolen from him when he signs up a Venusian who can disappear in the ring at will.
I Was Trapped in Horror House!
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ?
- Pencils
- Paul Reinman
- Inks
- Paul Reinman
- 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.
The Savages
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- K-825
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Man has traced his beginnings from the tales told in the rocks and marshes!
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; science fiction
- Synopsis
- This story postulates that the first humans were actually Martians whose spaceship developed engine trouble.
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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!
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3.
Prison Without Bars
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4.
The Question That Can't Be Answered!
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5.
The Swirling Mist!
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6.
Beware!!! Of the Little Toy Men!!
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7.
Humans...Keep Out!
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8.
The Disappearing Man
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9.
I Was Trapped in Horror House!
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10.
The Savages
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11.
[no title indexed]
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12.
Companion Comics in this Series
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- Doug Brain
- Peter Croome
- Ramon Schenk
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