Uncanny Tales comic books issue 2

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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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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.