Strange Tales (1951-1976 1st Series) comic books 1957-1959

Cover art by Bill Everett. "A Witch By Night," art by John Forte; A story that shares plot elements with The Twilight Zone's "It's A Good Life." "The Long Sleep!", script by Carl Wessler, art by Gray Morrow; A criminal thinks he has shot a night watchman and goes into suspended animation for forty years so that the police will forget about him, but when he comes out of the suspended animation, he reads in the old newspaper that his partner was the one who wounded the night watchman earlier in the evening and the police never suspected him. "Something Strange On the Sand!", art by Doug Wildey; A man finds a city with a treasure that only appears once every several years and attempts to steal the treasure but fails. "Trapped In the Dark!", art by Robert Sale; A swindler whose conscience is bothering him finds himself locked in an amusement park fun house where he sees visions of the people he has cheated. "Robot Inventor" text story. "The Man Who Talked!", art by Bob Powell; A ventriloquist loses his dummy overboard and the island natives are about to destroy it when the ventriloquist speaks for the dummy many miles away. "The Punishment of Paul Phillips!", art by George Roussos; When a man testifying in court dreams of being executed due to circumstantial evidence he changes his attitude. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Bill Everett. "The Jack-In-The-Box," art by Mac Pakula; An ivory hunter regrets opening a tribal witch doctor's jack-in-the-box when inside it contains the spirit of the Elephant God. "Octopus!", script by Carl Wessler, art by Tony DiPreta; In 1980 a ship finds itself menaced by an octopus made gigantic by atomic bomb tests so a call is made to the past to shoot all nearby octopi and save the ship in a future time. "What Goes On Down There?", art by John Giunta; Underground invader's resolve to conquer the surface world fails when they realize that after millions of years adapting to life underground they are no bigger than ants. "The Spirit of '76," art by Joe Maneely; A young boy cleans out the attic of the old house his family moved into and meets a ghost from the Revolutionary War era. "Earth-Trap!", art by Robert Sale; The guardian of the force of gravity takes a vacation from the center of the Earth and gets hoodwinked by a phony medium attempting to demonstrate telekinesis so he goes back to the gravity controls and turns them up a notch and no one can move. "Man Without Fear!", script by Carl Wessler, art by George Roussos; A soldier's ghost demonstrates the bravery that the man never could in life. "The Threat From the Void," art by Paul Reinman; In the days of the cold war Jupiter sends a threat to Earth, close to achieving space travel technology, warning them if another global war breaks out Earth shall have to be destroyed. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Bill Everett. "Something Is On This Ship!", art by Doug Wildey; The first mate of a ship tries to convince the captain that there are spooks aboard his ship, but when the captain's hair turns white at something he's seen, the first mate begins to wonder if there really are spooks aboard. "The Metal Master!", art by Vince Colletta; An artist creates a robot to paint for him but smashes it when it turns the tables and forces him to paint. "More Than a Mortal!", art by Pete Morisi; A man with a theory that Shakespeare was more than mortal murders his uncle for his money, but Shakespeare's ghost contrives to make him own up to the crime. "Hide-Out!", art by Robert Sale; An owner of criminal hide-outs comes across a wishing jewel that he uses to eliminate his competition but when he gets raided by the police he realizes that there is nowhere to run because his competitors have all been put out of business. "The Fountain of Youth" text story. "Nothing Can Stop It," art by Howard O'Donnell; A chemist tries to make a solvent that can eat through anything for criminal purposes but when succeeds, he realizes that he failed to consider nothing could contain such a compound. "The Shock!", script by Carl Wessler, art by Reed Crandall; A deadbeat finds that when his foot makes contact with a power cord and he touches the radiator the shock he receives teleports him to distant towns at random; He decides to use this to steal the company payroll. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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"You Used To Be Me," "Murder On His Mind" (art by Pete Morisi), "The Door That Wouldn't Open," "The Voice of Doom" (art by Gray Morrow), "Volcano" (art by Richard Doxsee), "It Walks in the Night" (art by Paul Reinman), and a two-page text story, "The Missing Squadrons." Bill Everett art? Cover price $0.10.

"He Floats Thru the Air" (art by Al Williamson and Ralph Mayo), "Menace From the Nether World!" (art by Gene Colan), "The Night of October Third!" (art by Dave Berg), "Man Lost" (art by Pete Morisi), "No Place on Earth," "The Secret of the Black Tube," and a two-page text story, "Sdrawkcab." Bill Everett cover. Cover price $0.10.

"Help, Help!" with art by Gene Colan; "When the World Went Mad!" with art by Bernard Krigstein; "What Waits in the Dungeon?" with art by George Woodbridge; "Trapped in the Burning Sands"; "The Fearful Fate of Mr. Foster"; "The Death Mask!"; and "Magic Mist Foam." Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Bill Everett. "With Just One Stroke," art by John Forte; A criminal discovers a magic pen, which makes anything that he writes come true; It runs dry when he is trying to steal jewels, leaving him trapped in a vault to die. "Rude Awakening!", art by George Woodbridge; An embezzler dreams he will be caught, and kills the man he dreams responsible; The murder is another dream, as he is jailed pending sentence for embezzlement. "The Final Shot!", script by Carl Wessler, art by Robert Q. Sale; A convict released from prison attempts to get revenge on those responsible for placing him there; He shoots them with a chemical compound that makes them susceptible to suggestion in order to force them to commit crimes. "Child's Play!", pencils by Christopher Rule (?) and Ed Winiarski, inks by Christopher Rule; A rich man gets forces a scientist to give him a robot as a toy for his son despite his warnings; It tries to burn the house down. "Crackpot Chemist" text story. "The Puppet Man," art by Dan Loprino; An amnesiac confesses to a murder he doesn't remember, but applause reminds him that he is only an actor lost in his role. "The Abyss!", art by Jim Mooney; Political refugees seeking to flee tyranny are assisted by supernatural beings, and realize once they reach freedom that they crossed over Mt. Olympus. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Bill Everett. "The Laundry Machines!", art by Paul Reinman; A landlord squeezes a Haitian laundress for more rent and is made ill by voodoo; He has her deported, but the box holding the pills to cure him contains only more boxes, one within the next. "The Spectre," art by Dick Giordano; A race car driver refuses to drive after he sees a ghost; His manager thinks it is a hallucination, and pays a mystic to convince him it is safe. "The Miracle Painting" text story, art by Doug Wildey. "The Disappearing Man!", art by Ed Winiarski; A scientist who disappeared years ago returns, explaining that he is now king of an alternate dimension His greedy friend hopes to take over the dimension for himself, but ends up imprisoned indefinitely. "Menace of the Mirror," art by Bernard Baily; A scientist thinks he has invented a machine to give life to reflections in a mirror, but when he tests it he realizes that he himself is a reflection. "Fear Walks on Four Feet!", art by Al Eadeh; A man tries to ruin his partner and romantic rival; He overpowers a ray intended to capture a lion and it explodes; He seems to be blown into the past and hides for a year. "The Eyes That Never Close!", art by Bernie Krigstein; A prisoner tries to escape using a mystic idol, but it will only take the evil on doomed journeys through time, and he is trapped in Hiroshima just before the bomb falls. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Joe Maneely. "The Girl Who Walked Thru Stone!", art by Ruben Moreira; A miner caves in the shaft he works to aid a beautiful girl from an underground kingdom; No one believes him and he is jailed, but the girl returns in a digging machine to rescue him. "The Man Nobody Knew!", art by Joe Maneely; The obituary editor of a newspaper sees events before they happen; The source of his abilities his found after he turns in his last story, when his replacement discovers the obituary he wrote for himself years previously. "The Invaders!", art by Werner Roth; An undersea invasion is foiled when their scouting expedition is confused by their contemptuous reception from an old woman who takes them for actors. "Filled With Hate," art by Angelo Torres; An old zoo-keeper instinctively recognizes the evil in a new specimen; It is an alien sent to turn the animals against humans, but it is killed by the zoo's gorilla, the animal closest to humans. "It Happened That Night," art by Herb Familton; A skeptical man mocks an Indian mystic, but he is convinced by a terrifying illusion in which he gains the ability to see the coming of death. "The Window" text story. "Alone in the Night!", art by George Roussos; A thief seduces a rich young woman alone on a moored yacht; When he tries to rob her safe he finds the yacht drifting out to sea. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Bill Everett. "He Never Came Out!", art by Alphonso Greene; A wax museum owner claims that his statues are criminals petrified by the head of Medusa; When a thief ignores this warning and tries to rob him, the museum gains a new statue. "Uncork It...If You Dare!", art by Howard O'Donnell; A meek man is left a bottle of gas that changes personalities; Instead of using it to become more daring, he uses it on UN diplomats. "The Drowning Man!", art by Christopher Rule; A cafe owner comes across Atlanteans exiling some of their criminals; The guards save him from drowning and he is offered citizenship. "Flight Number Thirteen!", art by Ruben Moreira; Two criminals hijack an airplane full of strangely emotionless passengers; The airplane is piloted remotely into the parallel world that the passengers came from, where the air will drain the pilots' emotions. "The Melting Pot," art by John Forte; A convict creates a melting pot to free himself from jail to steal gold, but the pot melts the gold and leaves him trapped in molten metal. "The Free Ride" text story. "Too Good to Be True!", art by Don Perlin; A young boy imagines that he has a rich uncle who suddenly appears, but when he begins to doubt, the uncle fades away. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Joe Maneely. "The Secret Laboratory of Dr. Domino," art by Al Williamson; A conman hires some elderly women and young girls to enter a cabinet so that the old woman exit the back and the young girls come out the front to give the illusion that their youth has been restored. "What Is Monium?", art by John Forte; A man discovers a metal that when cut in two remains connected even though it appears that there is empty space between the parts; He starts a magic act where anything he tosses through one hoop pops out the other. "So This Is Mars!", art by Bob Powell; A Martian filmmaker teleports a human filmmaker's Martian set to Mars and is disappointed to find human culture identical to Martian culture. "The Silent City!", art by Jim Mooney; A man finds that he can rob helpless frozen people if he stops all of the clocks in town but he forgets about a sundial. "What On Earth?", art by Bob McCarty; One man thinks that humans cannot achieve space travel, and must allow nature to take them to other worlds like seeds. "The Busybody" text story. "The Last Warning!", art by Vic Carrabotta; A man saves his own life by sending a radio message through time that helps a younger version of himself escape a cave-in. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Joe Maneely. "Afraid To Open the Door!", art by Dan Loprino; A thief trying to rob a reclusive scientist finds him in a room with two doors; The scientist tells him if he leaves through the wrong door he will be trapped in a shadow world of strange creatures. "The House That Cried!", art by Christopher Rule; A hobo tries to rob an old woman in a dilapidated house who turns out to be a ghost. "The Ragged Man," art by Richard Doxsee; A heartless businessman gets what's coming to him when the Geiger counter he keeps on his yacht goes off and he spends all his money buying worthless land because he thinks that there is a fortune in uranium underwater. "The Terrible Tree!", art by John Forte; A man weakens a large redwood tree so that it will fall on his farm and he can collect on the insurance policy; Objects made from the tree pursue vengeance upon him. "The Perfectly Frightened Man," art by Robert Q. Sale; A man is convinced by his wife that he is the victim of a hoax designed to make him think he has inherited sorcerous powers, but when he says "I'll be a monkey's uncle", he turns into one. "The Missing Film" text story, art by John Severin. "When the Curtain Falls!", art by Bernard Baily; A jealous stagehand swaps a real dagger for a rubber prop hoping that his actor rival will stab himself and he will be free to pursue his love interest without competition. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Joe Maneely. "The Ghost Came C.O.D.", art by Reed Crandall; A schemer comes up with the idea to send off invoices to the recently deceased figuring grieving widows will just pay the invoice to take care of the matter quickly; The fraud works until one of the dead comes back to his shop and reveals himself as a Martian living within the body of a human. "The Replacement!", art by Alphonso Greene; A criminal steals a dying man's jacket and when he finds an airline ticket in the pocket he attempts to use the plane to escape the police. "The Voice of Fido!", art by Werner Roth; A ventriloquist uses a dog in his act in place of a dummy; When a fire breaks out the dog leads people out by speaking and the ventriloquist gets credit for it, but the ventriloquist denies speaking. "It Waits Under the Sea!", art by Al Eadeh; A man plans to traverse the globe completely underwater, but when he sees a tunnel he becomes curious and directs the submarine into it. "The Eerie Experiment!", art by Robert Q. Sale; Two men in 1977 using a radio attempt to warn a government agent breaking up a communist spy ring in the past. "Time Machine" text story. "He Wore a Black Beard," art by Ed Winiarski; A man living with an inventor is surprised by a visitor who claims to be from the future; The man resents the inventor and comes up with a scheme to frame him with the time traveler's help. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Prototype issue (Quicksilver). Cover art by Joe Sinnott. "Trapped Between Two Worlds!", art by Steve Ditko; A scientist working on a matter transporting device accidentally transports himself to a distant planet of warlike aliens; They read his mind in order to use his device for conquest. "I Seek the Sea Serpent," art by Don Heck; A scientist tracks down a sea serpent, but the crew of his ship panics and kills it. "I Was the Invisible Man!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Christopher Rule; A scientist uses a device that makes the particles of a living body move at the speed of light, rendering him invisible to the eye; He conducts a series of stunts in order to build up a name for himself so he can them go public and cash in. "Discovery" text story, art by Joe Maneely. "The Man Who Never Was!", art by Carl Burgos; A scientist's assistant uses a time machine to travel to the past in order to find a pirate's treasure and get rich; While in the past he is attacked by the pirates. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Christopher Rule. "Last Warning--Evacuate Earth!", art by Joe Sinnott; A gaseous alien arrives on Earth to warn people to evacuate before its race invades; It attempts to communicate with humans telepathically, but they disregard his warning as madness or a trick. "Mystery Trip" text story, art by Joe Maneely. "The Creatures from the Bottomless Pit!", art by Steve Ditko; A man descends in a bathysphere into a pit so deep that he is surprised to find a waterless cavern beneath it occupied by elves banished long ago by a wizard. "Test Pilot!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Christopher Rule; A rocketship test pilot in the year 2089 takes an experimental rocket on a test flight; He faces an oxygen leak caused by a collision, alien raiders and other hazards before returning safely to Earth. "Next Stop—Mars!", art by Carl Burgos; A short child mocked for his height takes comfort from his one friend and his love of airplanes; He is rejected by the air force because of his height, but when his friend designs an experimental rocket that can only be piloted by a short man he becomes the first man on Mars. "Trapped In Tomorrow!", art by John Buscema; A man spends twenty years building a time machine in order to use knowledge of the future to enrich himself; He travels to 2010 and memorizes stock market and horse race information from the newspaper archives. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Prototype issue (Professor X). Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Christopher Rule. "The Man In The Iron Box!", art by Carl Burgos; Certain that the world will soon descend into nuclear war, a brilliant scientist goes into cryogenic suspension for a million years, hoping to awaken in a more enlightened time. "The Talent" text story. "Rocket Ship X-200," art by Don Heck; An aging space pilot is mocked for his slow ship, but when an invading armada approaches Earth his ship is the first to see it. "Journey into Nowhere!", art by Joe Sinnott; Two scientists try to travel to the future, but arrive in the stone age; They believe they have proved travel into the future impossible, not suspecting that they actually saw the world after the destruction of civilization by war. "The World That Was Lost!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Christopher Rule; An old eccentric in a wheelchair hires a sea captain to take him to a spot where he believes that the lost continent of Atlantis lies; When they reach their destination he reveals himself to be a merman and thanks the sailors for bringing him home before diving overboard. "The Threat from the 5th Dimension!", art by Steve Ditko; The 5th dimension is the dream dimension; The creatures there are trying to pass into this dimension, but belief in their existence as opposed to surmising a mere dream experience disrupts the structure of the dream dimension. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Prototype issue (Giant Man). Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers. "A Giant Walks the Earth!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Christopher Rule; A short lab assistant works on a growth serum to gain a normal man's height; The serum works too well, and he continues to grow so tall his life is endangered when the air becomes too thin to breathe. "The Comic" text story. "Earth in Chains!", art by Paul Reinman; Aliens from the planet Regulus colonize Earth, treating humans as little more than animals; They must withdraw only because of their vulnerability to Earth's germs. "Ghost Ship!", art by Carl Burgos; The US Coast Guard finds an abandoned Soviet submarine; The log book shows that they mistook an alien craft for an experimental American ship and tried to ram it. "Escape to Tomorrow!", art by Paul Reinman; A criminal hears of the invention of a time machine; He robs a bank and then escapes 50 years into the future; Once there, he discovers that under the new world government, US money is useless. "When Wakes the Sphinx!", art by Steve Ditko; An Egyptian and a tourist see the Sphinx come to life and chase off Alien invaders. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Jack Davis. "I Dared to Defy Merlin's...Black Magic!", art by Steve Ditko; An American businessman scoffs at a shopowner's claim that one of his books was Merlin's diary, until a terrifying vision of Merlin turns his hair white. "The Disappearance" text story. "I Am the Man Who Will...Destroy Your World!", art by Don Heck; An alien emperor of an immortal race comes to Earth disguised as a human to decide whether or not to order an invasion; He is impressed with the humans' decency and falls in love with a human girl. "When the Saucer Strikes!", art by Paul Reinman; A airline pilot is nearly hit by a flying saucer and must bank suddenly to avoid it; The passengers were mostly asleep, and the one who was awake says that he saw nothing...because he's really a Martian tourist and the saucer came to pick him up. "I Fought the Man Who Couldn't Be Killed!", art by Sol Brodsky; A criminal escapes from prison after 10 years and robs a warehouse; He is found by a police officer with superhuman powers, and is surprised to learn that the police now only recruit robots. "I Am the Man Without a Face!", art by Joe Sinnott; A bigot rounds up some thugs to don black hoods and drive some harmless gypsies out of town; One of the gypsies curses him, and he is never able to remove his hood for the rest of his life. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Christopher Rule. "I Fought the Colossus!", pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko; An advanced supercomputer turns Earth into a utopia, but suspicion remains, only to be inflamed when it is found to be building a giant robot. "Weather Man" text story, art by Joe Maneely. "I Was Trapped on the Ghost Ship!", art by Don Heck; A cruel sea captain greedily pursues the flying Dutchman; He catches the ship, but is trapped there as a ghost, replacing the former ghost, who now can go free. "I Am the Abominable Snowman!", art by Paul Reinman; A thief steals a ruby from a Himalayan retreat, but a curse on the stone makes him intensely cold and forces him to wear heavy furs that keep him from returning to civilization. "I Saw the Elephants' Graveyard!", art by John Forte; An ivory hunter searches for the legendary spot where elephants go to die, but he finds that the spot is an inaccessible pit of quicksand. "I Entered the...Doorway to Doom!", art by Steve Ditko; A Russian farmer becomes a gold miner and uncovers a doorway into a dimension of malevolent beings. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.