Sinister Tales
#191
([circa 1983 - 1984])
Alan Class,
1964 Series
- Price
- 0.25 GBP
- Pages
- 52
- On-sale Date
- 1983 ?
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Alan Class & Co. Ltd
- Brand
-
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.
I Who Created Mechano!
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (signed)
- Inks
- Dick Ayers (signed)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original editor)
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Mechano
- Reprints
-
from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #86 (July 1961)
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- Keywords
- monsters
I Created Mechano!
comic story / 13 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (signed)
- Inks
- Dick Ayers (signed)
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- V-221
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Mechano; Mr. Hopkins; Tommy Briggs
- Synopsis
- A giant robot goes out of control and attacks people, but its creators try to prevent the authorities from destroying it. They encounter a group of alien invaders who were not prepared to face a robot and are driven away, moments before the police arrive and blast Mechano to bits.
- Reprints
- from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #86 (July 1961)
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Moon-Man!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Paul S. Newman
- Pencils
- Bernie Krigstein (signed)
- Inks
- Bernie Krigstein (signed)
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- H-420
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #42 (January 1956)
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Invasion from Outer Space
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Christopher Rule
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-144
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- Alien ships appear over Earth, causing panic. After a failed military strike, the world's leaders disarm at the advice of an old astronomer, who had actually faked the ships to create unity.
- Reprints
in Trapped in Yesterday!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Carl Burgos ?
- Inks
- Carl Burgos
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-129
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Jason Grubb; Prof. Harvey Wilkes
- Synopsis
- A disgruntled janitor uses a time machine to travel to King Arthur's time to pose as a sorcerer using technology. None of it works independently, and he is forced to mop up the great hall.
- Reprints
- from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #2 (March 1959)
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The Man in the Cell
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- H-352
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Jim; Madge; Colin Stone; Ila; Torgan
- Reprints
- from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #42 (January 1956)
-
The Planet That Wasn't There!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Russ Heath
- Inks
- Russ Heath
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-148
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Elizabeth
- Synopsis
- The world president insists on missions to find a hidden planet, always leading to failure. When his daughter is killed aboard the latest rocket, the attempts to reach "Earth" are abandoned.
- Reprints
- from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #2 (March 1959)
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A Stranger on Earth
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bill Everett (signed)
- Inks
- Bill Everett (signed)
- Letters
- Bill Everett
- Job Number
- H-116
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Lok
- Synopsis
- When an alien crash lands on Earth, he is met with violence by men, but is befriended and helped to return to his ship by a dog. From orbit he thinks about destroying the planet but realizes that would kill the dogs too and refrains from his plan.
- Reprints
- from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #40 (November 1955)
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The Secret of Planet "X"!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- T-113
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Josef Kluge; Kirov
- Synopsis
- A dictator conquers an alien world full of unresisting people. He quickly finds that they are already slaves of the sentient plants, which now also control him through their spores.
- Reprints
- from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #2 (March 1959)
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The Man Who Said No!
comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- Carl Wessler
- Pencils
- Joe Maneely (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Maneely (signed)
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- H-262
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Robert Chapin; Emil; Burt
- Reprints
- from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #42 (January 1956)
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
I Who Created Mechano!
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1.
[no title indexed]
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2.
I Created Mechano!
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3.
Moon-Man!
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4.
Invasion from Outer Space
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5.
Trapped in Yesterday!
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6.
The Man in the Cell
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7.
The Planet That Wasn't There!
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8.
A Stranger on Earth
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9.
The Secret of Planet "X"!
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10.
The Man Who Said No!
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11.
[no title indexed]
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12.
Companion Comics in this Series
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- Katie
- Doug Brain
- Peter Croome
- Steve Jenner
- Ramon Schenk
- Richard Thomson
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