Uncanny Tales (1952 Atlas) comic books in grade VG or lower, graded by CGC

Add to cart CGC 3.5 $175.00 Paper: Off white to white Label #2054749002 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($5.25) will be charged at checkout.

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.

Add to cart CGC 4.0 $250.00 Paper: Cream to off white Label #4579636018 This is a consignment item. A 3% buyer's premium ($7.50) will be charged at checkout. Other items consigned by TheInnerGeek

Cover by Carl Burgos. Stories by Carl Wessler and unknown. Art by Dick Ayers, Ross Andru, John Severin, John Forte, Ed Winiarski and unknown. "The Night the Sphinx Spoke!" with art by Dick Ayers - Criminal Jerry uses a microphone to make the Sphinx 'talk' and commands people bring jewels to it, where a pharaoh claims the gems. Vince is arrested with his gang who were supposed to be playing the part of the pharaoh and his guards, but they reveal they were nabbed before the performance -- the pharaoh was real. Also in this issue: "There Is No Escape" with art by Ross Andru - A robot tries to pit humans and androids against each other but the robot's creators intervene in time to stop him; "A Day to Remember" by Carl Wessler and John Severin - Rupert is almost kidnapped and brought to Mars but escapes his captors...realizing it was April Fool's Day, he decides it was all a prank...it wasn't; 2-page text story "Invasion"; "The Man Who Vanished!" with art by John Forte - After pricking himself with Keller's formula Ogden finds himself in prehistory hunting a woolly mammoth with cavemen but when the formula wears off he forgets the experience; "A Man's Best Friend" by Carl Wessler and Ed Winiarski - Jovians kidnap Bruce the dog, thinking him an Earthling...Bruce winds up thwarting Count Ryk's attempt to seize the emperor's throne, then the emperor sends Bruce home, afraid Bruce might take over the planet himself; and "Trapped in the Labyrinth!" - Holt and Wilson fashion games to test each other...Holt loses when Wilson employs Farrah to trap Holt in a maze within his own mind. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.