Uncanny Tales (1952 Atlas) comic books 1951-1953

Stories by Stan Lee, Carl Wessler and unknown. Art by Paul Reinman, Dick Ayers, Manny Stallman, Russ Heath and unknown. "Satan and Sammy Snodgrass" by Stan Lee and Paul Reinman - The Devil wants to claim the soul of a man who never refuses to take a bet so he offers to grant the man a wish, since anyone who makes a Devil's pact forfeits their soul. He makes a bet with the man that he won't let the Devil grant him a wish. Satan thinks he wins either way. The man agrees to let him grant him a wish. The Devil is overjoyed as he thinks he's won. The man wishes that the Devil never claim his soul. Plus: "The Drop of Blood" with story by Carl Wessler and pencils by Dick Ayers - A man stabs to death another man and gets a spot of blood on his shoulder when he carries the body out to a field to bury it. He tries soap and water and even kerosene but the stain won't come off his skin. He buys a nostrum from a carnival snake oil salesman who promises that it "will restore the flesh" and when he uses it, it removes the blood stain, but regenerates the body of the murder victim who then strangles him. Also in this issue: "They Live Alone!" with art by Manny Stallman - Two old ladies feed investigating welfare bureau agents to their pet rats; 2-page text story "The Night Horror"; and "While the City Sleeps" by Stan Lee and Russ Heath - Martians infiltrate Earth by landing in cemeteries and burrowing into graves in order to wear the bodies of dead humans as a disguise. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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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.

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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.

Stories by Stan Lee, Carl Wessler and unknown. Art by George Roussos, Jack Keller, Cal Massey, Joe Maneely and Manny Stallman. The most uncanny tales ever told! In this issue: "Worse than Black Magic" by Stan Lee and George Roussos; 2-page text story "The Mission"; "She Married a Werewolf!" by Carl Wessler and Jack Keller; "The Girl in the Grave" with art by Cal Massey; "Nobody's Fool!" by Stan Lee and Joe Maneely; and "The Old Lady's Treasure" with art by Manny Stallman. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Russ Heath. Stories by Stan Lee, Carl Wessler, Paul S. Newman and unknown. Art by George Roussos, Sol Brodsky, Jim Mooney, Vern Henkel, Vic Carrabotta and Gene Colan. The most uncanny tales ever told! "Fear!" by Stan Lee and George Roussos -- a tale to hold you in an uncanny grip of suspense! Also in this issue: "I Can't Stop Killing!" by Carl Wessler and Sol Brodsky; "Plague!" by Paul S. Newman and Jim Mooney; "The Both of Me!" by Carl Wessler and Vern Henkel; "The Men Who Fly" with art by Vic Carrabotta; and 2-page text story "The Frame!" with illo by Gene Colan. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Carl Burgos. Stories by Carl Wessler, Clayton Martin and unknown. Art by Sam Kweskin, Sid Greene, Matt Fox, Martin Thall, John Forte, Dick Ayers and unknown. "He Lurks in the Shadows" by Carl Wessler and Sam Kweskin - A killer wants to give up his gruesome trade but he loves his wife and wants to continue to give her expensive presents. He pulls one last job and resolves to tell her he's broke when he goes through a dark alley and feels a knife shoved deep into his back. It turns out his wife is in the same business for the same reason. Plus: "The Mark of Death!" with inks by John Forte - A man tries to shock his aunt into an early grave so he can get her money by pretending he sees the mark of death in her palm. At first he thinks his ploy has failed, because she doesn't show much of a reaction, but later in the evening she visits him with a gun and shoots him because she is concerned no one will be around to care for him after she's gone. Also in this issue: "The Man Who Changed" by Carl Wessler and Sid Greene - A beautiful woman who loves her ugly husband has her face deformed through surgery just as he is having his face made handsome by a plastic surgeon; "I Was a Vampire" with art by Matt Fox - A vampire falls in love with a woman and so takes a serum that can cure vampirism, but on their wedding night, his bride reveals herself to be a vampire; "The Stooge" with story by Clayton Martin and pencils by Martin Thall (as Martin Rose) - A circus freak with six hands murders his fat lady wife because, even with six hands, he can't keep up with all the orders she gives him; and 2-page text story "A Vampire Is Loose" with illo by Dick Ayers. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Bill Everett. Stories by Stan Lee and unknown. Art by Joe Maneely, Harry Anderson, Larry Woromay, Bob Brown and Howie Post. "Kill, Clown, Kill!" with art by Harry Anderson - A clown kills his clown rival so he can have his fame and his girlfriend. He tries to find a plastic surgeon to alter his looks so he will appear as the dead man, but fails. The police track him back to the circus where he is shot resisting arrest. He dies at the foot of the woman he professes his love to as he realizes she is blind. Plus: "The Witch of Landor" with art by Larry Woromay - A duke forces a witch to call up his ancestor so that he can ask the ghost where the castle's hidden treasure is. When the witch does as she is bidden, the ghost replies that the treasure location was a secret even in his time and that the duke will have to seek further back. The witch calls up several spirits in succession without the knowledge of the treasure's location until she calls up a gorilla which strangles the duke. Also in this issue: "The Gal Who Talked Too Much!" with art by Bob Brown - A (mad?) scientist looking for 'volunteers' to spend the rest of their lives buried in a time capsule gives two sleeping pills to a husband and his blabber-mouth wife, lying to the both of them that they can be rid of each other if they administer the pill to their spouse...while they are asleep, he transfers both of them to the time capsule; "Planet of Death!" with art by Howie Post - Aliens find Earth air poisonous so they observe a man haranguing a crowd about flying saucers through a telescope; "I Was Locked in a...Haunted House!" by Stan Lee and Joe Maneely - When a boy tells his friends that he doesn't believe in the spooky things they read about in comic books, they dare him to spend an hour in a haunted house at midnight; and 2-page text story "The Twins"! 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories by Stan Lee and unknown. Art by John Forte, George Roussos, Joe Maneely, Manny Stallman, Jay Scott Pike, Mike Sekowsky and unknown. The most uncanny tales ever told! In this issue: "Bring Back My Face" by Stan Lee and John Forte; "Gravedigger's Ghost" with art by George Roussos; "Day of Execution" by Stan Lee and Joe Maneely; 2-page text story "Pact in Blood" with illo by Manny Stallman; "If I Look I'll Go Mad!" with art by Jay Scott Pike; and "The Big Blow-Up" with pencils by Mike Sekowsky. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Bill Everett. Stories by unknown. Art by Reed Crandall, Al Eadeh, Bill Everett, Manny Stallman, Myron Fass and Harry Anderson. "Like a Chicken without a Head!" with 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. As he removes his head from his torso, he says to himself "The world isn't ready for us." Also in this issue: "Rudolph's Racket" with art by Al Eadeh - An innkeeper keeps two large wolves in the cellar which devour curious guests so he can claim their valuables; 2-page text story "The Upside-Down Room" with illo by Bill Everett; "Propaganda" with art by Manny Stallman; "The Executioner" with art by Myron Fass - A story told from the point of view of a turkey on Thanksgiving day; and "Time Marches On!" with 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 a clock mechanism. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Russ Heath. Stories by Stan Lee and unknown. Art by Joe Maneely, John Romita, Sr., Sam Burlockoff, Myron Fass and Paul Reinman. The most uncanny tales ever told! In this issue: "Money Mad!" by Stan Lee and Joe Maneely; "The Mark of Death" with art by John Romita, Sr.; "Murder Will Out!" with art by Sam Burlockoff; "Call for Luther Kane" with art by Myron Fass; "The Man Who Came Back to Life" with art by Paul Reinman; and 2-page text story "The Ghost of Nesterfield Hall," reprinted from Adventures into Terror (1951) #8 (original title: "The Nesterfield Horror"). 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Bill Everett. Stories by unknown. Art by Bill Benulis, Harry Anderson, Gene Colan, Bill Walton, Sid Greene and Jack Abel. "The Man Who Changed" with art by Bill Benulis and Jack Abel - A timid, unimpressive man stays behind to witness an H Bomb test on an island with the guinea pigs figuring that any change will be an improvement. The bomb flash blinds and burns him, but when he recovers in the hospital, he finds that he has grown taller, powerfully built and handsome. He resolves to leave the institution, although the personnel attempt to restrain him for fear of his contamination, and marry the girl he's wild about. She reacts in fear to his presence though, and all people shun him. He returns to the test island where the guinea pigs accept him. Also in this issue: "If Looks Could Kill!" with art by Harry Anderson - When a beautiful woman cheats a smitten scientist out of ten thousand dollars to gamble with, he gets revenge by transforming her ageless beauty into stone; "The Hungry Jaws" with art by Gene Colan - A plantation owner attempts to buy time to ignite a moat defense against swarming ants by sacrificing his workers to them, but even though the ploy works, the ants cross over the burning moat by crossing over the dead ant corpses and kill him; "Joe's Weak Spot" with art by Bill Walton - A man finds that he cannot be the boxer he wants to be with his literal glass jaw; "The Mental Case" with art by Sid Greene - A psychologist treats a man who claims to have a demon in his head and ends up with it himself; and 2-page text story "The Sentence!", reprinted from Astonishing (1951 Marvel/Atlas) #9 (original title: "Vengeance of the Time Stream"). 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Carl Burgos. Stories by Burt Frohman and unknown. Art by Tom Gill, Bill Everett, Paul Reinman, Sam Kweskin and Bob Powell. In this issue: "Dead End!" by Burt Frohman and Tom Gill - A man travels back in time and kills his younger self; "The New Tenants" with art by Bill Everett - A man works for a miser who cheats people on real estate deals until he gets so fed up with his boss selling run down dumps to kindly old folks that he kills him and shores up the floor support in the cellar with the man's body; 2-page text story "The Phantom Gladiator"; "Devil's Island" with art by Paul Reinman - A man takes his unfaithful lover in the dark to the largest pearl she has ever seen...it's still inside the giant clam which closes on her; "Bertha Gets Buried" with art by Sam Kweskin - A man assumes his wife is cheating, kills her, and buries her in the cellar...it turns out that the man he thought she was cheating with is a handyman she hired to clean out the cellar like her husband asked her to...he is digging up the floor to lay down cement when he uncovers her body; and "The Man from Outer Space" with art by Bob Powell - A woman on a farm who is always complaining that she doesn't have six hands to do all the work that she is asked to gets her wish when an alien crash lands in the barn with the power to grow new limbs. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories by unknown. Art by Joe Sinnott, Jerry Robinson, Bob Fujitani, Tony DiPreta and Russ Heath. The most uncanny tales ever told! In this issue: "The Man Who Was Scared out of His Skin!" with art by Joe Sinnott; 2-page text story "The Actor"; "Where There's Smoke" with art by Jerry Robinson; "Open Wider, Please!" with art by Bob Fujitani; "Are You a Weakling?" with art by Tony DiPreta; and "Meet Mr. Jones!" with art by Russ Heath. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover pencils by Sol Brodsky. Stories by unknown. Art by Ed Winiarski, Russ Heath, Dick Ayers, Mort Lawrence, Joe Sinnott and unknown. "For the Birds!" with art by Ed Winiarski - When Professor Gorey realizes that there is a valuable market in interplanetary birds, he begins stealing eggs from other worlds, hatching them, and selling the rare birds. However, on one trip to a new planet, he finds a giant bird taller than a skyscraper, who mistakes his spaceship for its egg and sits down on it, crushing the ship and the professor. Also in this issue: "The Victims of Vonntor!" with art by Russ Heath - A man with eight arms kills people and avoids being arrested for the crimes because when he is fingerprinted he shows the police a different set of hands; 2-page text story "The Dreadful Formula"; "The Hidden Martians" with pencils by Dick Ayers - A man charged with detecting hidden Martians is unaware that his girlfriend is one; "The Horselaugh" with art by Mort Lawrence; and "Find a Pin and Pick It Up!" with art by Joe Sinnott - A man fashions a voodoo doll to kill his partner and winds up killing himself. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories by unknown. Art by Joe Sinnott, Tony DiPreta, Al Eadeh, Ross Andru and Myron Fass. The most uncanny tales ever told! In this issue: "Escape from Mars" with art by Joe Sinnott; 2-page text story "The Bat Doctor"; "The Man Who Saw Death!" with art by Tony DiPreta; "Who Called?" with art by Al Eadeh; "Phooey on Phoonga" with art by Ross Andru; and "Home Sweet Home" with art by Myron Fass. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.