Uncanny Tales (1973 Marvel) comic books in grade VG or lower

Add to cart Very Good $9.60

Add to cart Very Good $9.60

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $5.70

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 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 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. 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.