Uncanny Tales (1952 Atlas) 3
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Issue #3
$120.00
View scans- Cover coming loose at both staples. Centerfold coming loose at one staple. Water spotting.
$175.00
View scans- Paper: Off white to white
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Stories by Stan Lee and unknown. Art by Jerry Robinson, Ed Winiarski, Don Perlin, Jack Keller, Gene Colan, Abe Simon and unknown. "Crazy" by Stan Lee and Jerry Robinson - A motorist hits a pedestrian and keeps going. When he gets to a small town the people observe him strangely and he thinks they must not get many visitors. They gather around his car with sticks and rope. They bind him and he asks them if they are crazy. It turns out the body of the man he struck is still in the car's grill. Plus: "The Slave" with art by Ed Winiarski - Sailor Joe Garcy travels to South America to seek his fortune. Discovering that Inca natives traditionally bury their dead with their belongings, he begins robbing crypts in search of riches. During a funeral procession, he disguises himself as an Inca slave to gain access to the burial vault. Once inside however, all of the slaves, including Joe Garcy, are sealed up behind the walls to die. Also in this issue: "The Tin Cup" with art by Don Perlin and 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; "He Died Screaming" with art by Jack Keller - A man doesn't want his daughter to learn where he keeps his money so he shuts himself in with it, only remembering too late that his hiding place is soundproof and airtight; "Escape...to What?" - A man tries to escape from Hell and fails; and 2-page text story "Bill and the Beanstalk" with illo by Gene Colan. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
