Strange Tales of the Unusual #10

(June 1957)

Menace of the Unseen Man (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

Richard Doxsee (signed)

Inks

Richard Doxsee (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Terry Szenics ?

Job Number

L-854

Genre

crime; science fiction

Indexer Notes

This is the story of a hobo who finds berries which make him invisible so he steals jewels and it ends the same way as the first story in Marvel Tales #139.
Wessler script per Nick Caputo from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.

The Man Who Said "No" (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Angelo Torres

Inks

Angelo Torres

Colors

?

Letters

Joe Letterese

Job Number

L-884

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Jonathan Bascombe; Max

Synopsis

A man refuses to give money to a scientist to help complete a cellular shrinking serum. Through a lab accident, he has shrunk himself and dies.

Reprints

• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #77, #138 ([circa 1973 - 1974])
• in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #16 (April 1975)
• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #164 ([circa 1976 - 1977]), #207 ([circa 1982 - 1983])

Don't Answer the Phone! (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Gray Morrow

Inks

Gray Morrow

Colors

?

Letters

Joe Letterese

Job Number

L-875

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

A man's murdered wife continues to phone him from the grave until he confesses to the police.

Reprints

• in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #9 (April 1975)

Mass Murder (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Robert Q. Sale (signed)

Inks

Robert Q. Sale (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Ray Holloway ?

Job Number

L-899

Genre

science fiction

Synopsis

A scientist makes use of a duplicator ray to make multiple copies of himself in order to work on a scientific problem, then later destroys the copies. An acquaintance prosecutes him for mass murder. The story ends by asking the reader how they would decide the case.

Reprints

• in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #77 ([no date])
• in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #18 (April 1975)
• in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #177 ([circa 1978 - 1979])

Statement of Ownership (Table of Contents: 5)

statement of ownership / 0.5 page (report information)

Letters

typeset

Green Thumbs (Table of Contents: 6)

text story / 1.5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Marie Severin (illustrations)

Inks

Marie Severin (illustrations)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Job Number

J-93

Indexer Notes

Job number suggests this is an inventory story or reprint from an unknown source.

The Threat! (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

Paul Reinman ?

Inks

John Tartaglione ?

Colors

?

Letters

Ray Holloway ?

Job Number

L-886

Genre

science fiction

Synopsis

A man discovers that his grandfather built a machine to bring people from another dimension to his home town and keep from returning as long as it functioned. He discovers the machine in the attic still running eighty years later and hatches a plan to extort the descendants of the people by threatening to turn off the machine and exiling them from this dimension. They reject his demand for payment so he attempts to demonstrate his threat by turning the dial on machine, but he himself disappears as he was unaware that his mother was one of other dimensional beings brought over.

Reprints

• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #174 ([circa 1980 - 1981])

Indexer Notes

Wessler script per Nick Caputo from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.

Possible Reinman pencils and Tartaglione inks per Nick Caputo, December 2019. Previous indexer credited Carl Burgos on pencils and inks.

The Nightmare Men (Table of Contents: 8)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Mac L. Pakula (signed as Mac L. Pakula)

Inks

Mac L. Pakula (signed as Mac L. Pakula)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

L-888

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

A tyrant's sleep is disturbed every night by men who approach him with the word 'justice' emblazoned upon armbands. These men intend to drag him off, but he awakens before they do so. When the tyrant forces a doctor to treat him, his guards find him missing the following morning and wonder if, in his dream last night, he did not wake up before the justice men dragged him off?

Reprints

• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #77, #138 ([circa 1973 - 1974])
• in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #9 (April 1975)
• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #164 ([circa 1976 - 1977])
• in Los Vengadores (Ediciones Vértice, 1974 series) #30 (Noviembre [1977?])
• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #207 ([circa 1982 - 1983])