Uncanny Tales (1973 Marvel) comic books

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All reprints from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #9. Cover pencils by Gil Kane, inks by Tom Palmer. "Like a Chicken Without a Head!", art by Reed Crandall; A doctor recommends a surgical procedure whereby the head is removed from the body and the heart is kept beating by artificial means so as to lengthen the time available for surgery; No one listens to him though, and being tired of being mocked, he destroys his formula. "Rudolph's Racket," art by Al Eadeh; An innkeeper keeps two large wolves in the cellar which devour curious guests so he can claim their valuables. "Propaganda!", art by Manny Stallman. "Time Marches On!", art by Harry Anderson; A man attempts to build a clock that can run forever by repairing itself, but no one understands why and mocks him, until he runs out of time and the undertaker pulls by his clothes to reveal he had replaced his inner organs with clock mechanism. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.20.

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All reprints. Cover art by Carl Burgos and John Romita (alterations). "The Graves That Moved" (from Marvel Tales #126); The undead victims of a slumlord's unsafe living conditions fly their coffins to the man's lawn; He attempts to flee, but the coffins hem him in and bury him alive. "Out of the Swamps!" (from Uncanny Tales #44), art by Dick Ayers; A scientist discovers a type of lemur living in the swamp that only lives for a week; He gets the idea to conduct an experiment in accelerated evolution and they produce wondrous discoveries which he shares with mankind. "Dead End!" (from Uncanny Tales #12), script by Burt Frohman, art by Tom Gill; A man travels back in time and kills his younger self. "Last Seen Climbing a Ladder!" (from Marvel Tales #138), art by Vic Carrabotta; A mocked scientist succeeds in building a ladder to an asteroid. "Superstition" (from Mystic #30), art by Syd Shores; Three escaped convicts from a penal colony in French Guyana steal a boat from a native tribe and set out in spite of warnings from the natives, which leads to their death. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.20.

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Last 20-cent cover price. All reprints. Cover art by Russ Heath. "The Storm" (from Strange Tales #8), art by Vic Carrabotta; A killer hijacks a plane to escape the police; The pilot turns out to be Satan and he lands the plane in Hell. "This Way Out" (from Adventures into Weird Worlds #17), art by Carmine Infantino and Carl Burgos (last panel only); In a hospital prison ward, a condemned killer's other occupant in the room tells him that there are no bars on the window; The killer attempts to escape through the window, but the other patient in the room turns out to be Death and the window looks into the execution chamber. "The Little Monsters" (from Marvel Tales #114), art by Tony DiPreta; A nephew visits his uncle on an African plantation to ask for help with his gambling debts; When the uncle refuses, he resolves to murder him for the inheritance. "The Pharaoh Walks" (from Uncanny Tales #38) , script by Carl Wessler, art by Manny Stallman; A bookkeeper who resents his job rides an Egyptian solar ship into the beyond where the Pharaoh makes him his bookkeeper for all eternity. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.20.

First 25-cent cover price. All reprints. Cover art by Sol Brodsky (?) and Mike Esposito (alterations). "The Vampire Maker!" (from Adventures into Weird Worlds #13), art by Carmine Infantino; A mob breaks into the castle of a scientist and kills him as they have heard he is creating a vampire monster; The scientist was actually a hero, as the monster he created lives only off of the blood of other vampires. "The Furnace!" (from Mystic #27), script by Paul S. Newman, art by Al Eadeh; A wooden-legged ship's captain works his furnace stokers until they drop and there is only the most powerful one left; When the last of the coal is gone, they use wood until that is gone and they are still just short of port. "Men in Black" (from Menace #3), script by Stan Lee, art by John Romita; After losing his job, Jim Horton organizes a gang that wears black hoods to beat and rob anyone he considers "foreign," but his bigotry leads to his death. "The Wooden Box" (from Mystic #16), script by Stan Lee, art by George Roussos; When a pawn shop owner opens a wooden box that he has been warned against opening, he is transformed into a skeleton. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.25.

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All reprints. Cover pencils by Larry Lieber, inks by Mike Esposito. "The Strange Machine"; 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. "A Little Pain Never Hurt Anybody" (from Marvel Tales #117), art by Gil Kane; 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. "The Man in Black" (from Menace #2), script by Stan Lee, art by George Tuska; A Communist agent mistakes his contact for the man he is supposed to kill. "The Little Pests" (from Adventures into Terror #12), art by Manny Stallman; 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. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.25.

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All reprints. Cover pencils by Larry Lieber and John Romita (alterations), inks by Tom Palmer and John Romita (alterations). "The Last Kkrul" (from Astonishing #18), art by John Romita; A creature from underground that can possess the bodies of men is released during a storm. "Surprise!" (from Adventures into Weird Worlds #16), art by Jack Keller; An old man in love with a Gypsy girl murders his rival; The girl continues to moon over the dead man so a Gypsy woman offers to make the old man resemble the man he killed; He goes to the gravesite at night with a picture and the sorceress summons the ghost and commands it to exchange faces with the old man. "I Know the Secret of the Poltergeist!" (from Tales to Astonish #1), art by Steve Ditko; An investigator works diligently to discover the logical explanations behind the odd occurrences at a couple's newly purchased home; He is, in fact, a poltergeist who attempts to allay suspicion of his kind's existence among humans. "You're Going to Die Yesterday" (from Adventures into Weird Worlds #5), art by Gerald Altman; A man uses a time machine in order to murder the father of his rival before he was ever born, but ends up making a mistake and killing his own father. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.25.

All reprints. "Dance of Death" (from Suspense #10), art by Russ Heath; A dancer's new dance partner turns out to be a vampire. "A Giant Walks the Earth!" (from Strange Tales #70), 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; Just as he is about to black out, the serum wears off, and he is restored to his original height having learned a lesson to be satisfied with the way he is. "Tornado" (from Marvel Tales #130), art by Vic Carrabotta; A tornado that behaves as though it were under the control of a particular man turns out to be created by aliens to study the man's behavior, and he is killed when the observations are concluded. "The Last Man on Earth" (from Amazing Adult Fantasy #7), script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; A paranoid man seals himself in a bomb shelter, but instead of a war, he misses the discovery of immortality in space and the exodus of humanity. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.25.

All reprints. Cover pencils by Arvell Jones, inks by Klaus Janson. "Escape...To What?" (from Uncanny Tales 3); A man tries to escape from Hell and fails. "The Tin Cup" (from Uncanny Tales 3) pencils by Don Perlin, inks by Abe Simon; An actor poses as crippled, scarred and blind in one eye so as to bilk people out of sympathy money but then fate conspires to inflict such deformities upon him for real. "Man with a Tail" (from Astonishing 18), art by Larry Woromay; A man born with a tail meets a woman with a tail at a carnival freak show and is happy that he is no longer alone, but she strangles him; Her tail reflects feline characteristics while his is that of a rodent. "The Toy Soldiers" (from Tales to Astonish 39--Comic erroneously says reprinted from Tales to Astonish 18), script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; A boy who enjoys toy soldiers buys a new civil war figure to place in his prisoner of war stockade; That evening, he and his father are attacked by an invader from the sixth dimension; Suddenly, the lights go out, and when they turn the lights back on, the invader has disappeared. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.25.

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All reprints. Cover inks by Klaus Janson. "Don't Answer the Phone!" (from Strange Tales of the Unusual #10), art by Gray Morrow; A man's murdered wife continues to phone him from the grave until he confesses to the police. "The Nightmare Men" (from Strange Tales of the Unusual #10), art by Mac L. Pakula; 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. "Four Empty Chairs!" (from Mystery Tales #51), art by Marvin Stein; A man's family disappears one evening and a stranger explains to the town sheriff that they are from another dimension waiting for a lightning bolt of sufficient strength to send them all back to their home dimension. "Peter and the Puppet!" (from Marvel Tales #110), script by Bill Benulis, inks by Jack Abel; A ventriloquist's dummy is actually alive and becomes a rival for his girlfriend's affections. "When the Walls Close In!" (from Astonishing #54-- Story miscredited as from Astonishing #52), art by Bob Brown; An escaped war criminal feels claustrophobia until his guilt makes him confess. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.25.

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All reprints. "The Strange Magic of Master Khan!" (from Strange Tales #77), art by Steve Ditko; A pirate steals the ship of an Asian sorcerer; The ship's owner curses the thieves, shrinking the ship and imprisoning them in a glass bottle. "The Dummy and Me!" (from Strange Tales #76), art by Paul Reinman; Some gangsters come for a ventriloquist who has unpaid gambling debts; They corner him in the alley and shoot him, not realizing that it was the puppet who made his decisions all along. "The Man in the Glass Cage" (from Strange Tales #99), art by Don Heck; A sound engineer tries to kill a girl who spurned him using sound waves; When they fail, he is confused, and, is killed by the waves which didn't affect the secretly hard-of-hearing girl. "The Silent Street!" (from World of Fantasy #10); A police officer makes his night rounds thinking that nothing interesting ever happens in the neighborhood while two aliens are conducting a life or death struggle among the rooftops. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.25.

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All reprints. Cover inks by Frank Giacoia. "I Found the Mad Universe!" (from Strange Tales #76), art by Steve Ditko; A scientist uses a powerful new microscope to discover an entire world existing at the sub-atomic level; He is horrified to find that this world, Earth, is just as barbaric and violent as his own. "The Dead Don't Sleep!" (from Adventures into Terror #30), art by Al Eadeh; The ghost of a murderer kills a medium who has been disturbing the sleep of the dead. "I Saw the Elephants' Graveyard!" (from Strange Tales #72), 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. "Escape!" (from Menace #4), script by Stan Lee, art by Russ Heath; A spy fails in his effort to steal an element required in the construction of a hydrogen bomb so he knows he faces death if caught by the police or the Communists; He reads of a rocket to the moon and thinks if he can get aboard that he will be safe, but he doesn't realize the test rocket is not large enough to hold a human passenger. "The Big Bang!!" Hostess snack cakes ad featuring Captain Marvel. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.25.

All reprints. Cover pencils by Ron Wilson, inks by Frank Giacoia. "Titan, the Amphibian from Atlantis!" (from Tales of Suspense #28), pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Russ Heath; John Cartwright, an auto executive, pretends to betray the human race to the invaders from Atlantis. "Buried Alive!" (from Men's Adventures #24), art by John Romita; An unscrupulous mine owner alienates his son by his immoral business practices, and the son is later killed in one of his family's unsafe mines. Marvel Treasury Editions ad. Marvel Comic Con 1975! ad. "A Switch in Time!" (from Strange Tales #99--miscredited to Journey Into Mystery #99), script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; In the year 2050 a prisoner reads about the invention of a time machine and so breaks jail to return to the past to rub out the one witness to his crime; However, as he attempts to assault the man, he realizes that he has been rendered intangible like a ghost so as to be unable to effect any change in the course of events. "The King Is Back! 'Nuff Said!" Bullpen Bulletins article, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Sol Brodsky and Joe Sinnott; Stan Lee announces Jack Kirby's return to Marvel and some of the titles he will be writing and drawing. Ad for FOOM magazine. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.25.