Uncanny Tales (1952 Atlas) 2
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Issue #2
$575.00
View scans- Paper: Cream to off white
- Label #1169615004
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
$375.00
View scans- Paper: Off white to white
- Label #2017989023
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
- Masking tape along centerfold spine, staples added (not manufacturing).
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
Graded by MCS, not consignor.
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Cover by Joe Maneely. Stories by Hank Chapman, Stan Lee and unknown. Art by Fred Kida, Bill Everett, Paul Reinman, Manny Stallman and Ed Smalle. "Skin-Deep" by Hank Chapman and Fred Kida - A man is attempting to do a face transplant from a corpse but his interfering wife is always getting underfoot by trying to help him in his endeavors. When she burns the skin that he has harvested off the corpse in her attempt at cleaning up around the place, he fixes her wagon by transplanting the corpse's head onto her shoulder. Also in this issue: 2-page text story "The Vault of Doom"; "The Monster Maker!" with art by Bill Everett - A statue maker falls in love with one of his statutes and finds a black magic spell that transmutes him into stone; "The Man Who Believed in Ghosts" with art by Paul Reinman - A man who lives next to a cemetery is not frightened of the ghosts which show up every night until he meets his own; "Skeleton in the Closet" with art by Manny Stallman - A rich man marries into a family of freaks; and "The Man Who Melted" by Stan Lee and Ed Smalle - A forgetful inventor shoots his wife for testing his serum that will allow him to melt away and commit the perfect crime, but he forgets to devise a way to return himself to normal. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
