Uncanny Tales #5

(August 1974)

The Strange Machine (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Clark Haas ?

Inks:

Clark Haas ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Editing:

Stan Lee (original story)

Job Number:

[7929]

Genre:

horror-suspense

Synopsis:

The leader of the Spanish Inquisition intends to do away with a rival by presenting a strange machine that will prove he is in league with the Devil. He climbs inside to investigate how the machine works, but fails to anticipate that his rival was building a device that would automatically implement every torture yet devised.

Reprints:

• from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #100 (April 1951) [one page cut]

Indexer Notes

Reprint is mistakenly identified as from Mystic #26.

A Little Pain Never Hurt Anybody (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Gil Kane

Inks:

Gil Kane

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Editing:

Stan Lee (original story)

Job Number:

[C-833]

Genre:

crime; horror-suspense

Synopsis:

A dentist treats his patients without painkiller in order to save money. When he catches a brain surgeon making a pass at his wife, he suffers one of his fainting spells. When he comes to, the brain surgeon has him strapped to a table and offers to remove the clot from his brain causing the fainting spells...without ether.

Reprints:

• from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #117 (August 1953)

The Man in Black (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script:

Stan Lee

Pencils:

George Tuska

Inks:

George Tuska

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Editing:

Stan Lee (original story)

Job Number:

[C-289]

Genre:

horror-suspense

Synopsis:

A Communist agent mistakes his contact for the man he is supposed to kill.

Reprints:

• from Menace (Marvel, 1953 series) #2 (April 1953)

The Little Pests (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Manny Stallman

Inks:

Manny Stallman ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Editing:

Stan Lee (original story)

Job Number:

[A-706]

Genre:

crime; horror-suspense

Synopsis:

After a husband disposes of his murdered wife's body in the pond, his new girlfriend complains so much to the county about the mosquitoes around the house that they drain it.

Reprints:

• from Adventures into Terror (Marvel, 1951 series) #12 (October 1952)