Fantastic Tales
#11
Thorpe & Porter,
1963 Series
From All Our Darkrooms
comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Joe Gill ?
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Letters
- Jon D'Agostino
- Job Number
- S-1842
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- At high noon on the 27th April 1972, at the corner of Clawson Avenue and 34th Street...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
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from Out of This World (Charlton, 1956 series) #4 (June 1957)
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The Man with a Screw Loose
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- S-1032
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What--what do you want?
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Jan Petrie; Martha Petrie
- Reprints
- from Out of This World (Charlton, 1956 series) #2 (December 1956)
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Indexer Notes
Molno pencils per Gary Watson, February 2008. Mastroserio inks per Nick Caputo. Watson originally credited Sal Trapani.
The Dream
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- S1508
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Compared with the huge telescopes in the observatories around the world, Hal Adams's home-made job was tiny!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Hal Adams; Jane Adams; Dr. Zenser
- Reprints
- from Out of This World (Charlton, 1956 series) #3 (March 1957)
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Indexer Notes
Art credits submitted by Gary Watson, February 2008.
Moon Farm
text story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Stephen Whitestone, president of the Food Council of the Universe, had called a special meeting of the member countries in Washington.
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Stephen Whitestone; Roger Groveland; Professor John Horton; William Simpson; Robert Marson; Major Alexander Birkos; Captain Roy Lisner
- Reprints
- from Out of This World (Charlton, 1956 series) #2 (December 1956)
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Venus Stopover
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- S-994
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Why can't we make a stop on Venus, Pete?
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Arnie Mason; Pete; Vinye (Venusian woman)
- Reprints
- from Out of This World (Charlton, 1956 series) #2 (December 1956)
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Indexer Notes
Art credits submitted by Gary Watson, February 2008.
Can You Explain It?
comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- But, mother, I want to go on the wheel!
- Reprints
- from House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #26 (May 1954)
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The Thing from Below
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Joe Gill ?
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Letters
- Jon D'Agostino
- Job Number
- S-2102
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- At last it was stirring!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Out of This World (Charlton, 1956 series) #5 (September 1957)
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All Those Eyes
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Joe Gill ?
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Letters
- Jon D'Agostino
- Job Number
- S1946
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Th-they keep staring at me!
- Genre
- drama; spy
- Synopsis
- A spy is haunted by a multitude of eyes.
- Reprints
- from Out of This World (Charlton, 1956 series) #6 (November 1957)
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Indexer Notes
The second page first panel has the hidden face with multiple masks motif that Ditko would later use to co-create Marvel’s Chameleon in The Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel, 1963 series) #1 as per Comic Book Historians article researched by Alex Grand
The Night They Learned the Truth
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Joe Gill ?
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Letters
- Jon D'Agostino
- Job Number
- S-2043
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'm tellin' ye--its the devil's work he's up to inside that house!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Out of This World (Charlton, 1956 series) #5 (September 1957)
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Haunted Hallows
text story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- "Mr. Thomas Murth has been waiting an hour," said the secretary to Professor John Sarlin.
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- Thomas Murth hires John Sarlin to investigate the mysterious Haunted Hallows caves.
- Reprints
- from Out of This World (Charlton, 1956 series) #5 (September 1957)
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The Man Who Stepped Out of a Cloud
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Joe Gill ?
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Letters
- Jon D'Agostino
- Job Number
- S1284
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Cloud traveller to headquarters--objective in sight...I shall land soon!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Out of This World (Charlton, 1956 series) #5 (September 1957)
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I Made a Volcano
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Joe Gill ?
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Letters
- Jon D'Agostino
- Job Number
- S-2101
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I don't even know how many years I've been hiding here!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Adolf Hitler
- Synopsis
- A madman amnesiac is sealing up vents on a volcano to make it erupt, though he doesn't know why he wants to cause such mayhem.
- Reprints
- from Out of This World (Charlton, 1956 series) #5 (September 1957)
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The Liberator
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- S-1024
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It was a small country wedged between the crashing sea and a range of towering mountains...
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- A statue and its disappearing weapons inspires a revolution.
- Reprints
- from Out of This World (Charlton, 1956 series) #5 (September 1957)
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Indexer Notes
Art credits submitted by Gary Watson, February 2008. Possible D'Agostino inks per Nick Caputo, Watson originally credited Sal Trapani.
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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1.
From All Our Darkrooms
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2.
The Man with a Screw Loose
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3.
The Dream
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4.
Moon Farm
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5.
Venus Stopover
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6.
Can You Explain It?
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7.
The Thing from Below
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8.
All Those Eyes
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9.
The Night They Learned the Truth
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10.
Haunted Hallows
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11.
The Man Who Stepped Out of a Cloud
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12.
I Made a Volcano
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13.
The Liberator
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