Uncanny Tales comic books issue 3

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Last 20-cent cover price. All reprints. Cover art by Russ Heath. "The Storm" (from Strange Tales #8), art by Vic Carrabotta; A killer hijacks a plane to escape the police; The pilot turns out to be Satan and he lands the plane in Hell. "This Way Out" (from Adventures into Weird Worlds #17), art by Carmine Infantino and Carl Burgos (last panel only); In a hospital prison ward, a condemned killer's other occupant in the room tells him that there are no bars on the window; The killer attempts to escape through the window, but the other patient in the room turns out to be Death and the window looks into the execution chamber. "The Little Monsters" (from Marvel Tales #114), art by Tony DiPreta; A nephew visits his uncle on an African plantation to ask for help with his gambling debts; When the uncle refuses, he resolves to murder him for the inheritance. "The Pharaoh Walks" (from Uncanny Tales #38) , script by Carl Wessler, art by Manny Stallman; A bookkeeper who resents his job rides an Egyptian solar ship into the beyond where the Pharaoh makes him his bookkeeper for all eternity. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.20.

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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.

UK Reprint Series. Reprints material from Tales to Astonish (1959-1968 1st Series) #36, Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds (1956) #31, Unusual Tales (1955) #12 and #36, Space War (1959) #2, Space Adventures (1952 1st series) #27, #32 and #53, Out of this World (1956 Charlton) #5 and #12, and Strange Suspense Stories (1952 Fawcett/Charlton) #67.

Volume 3, Issue 3 (Stated as #2 incorrectly in indicia) - March, 1940. 6.75" x 9.75", 114 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

Volume 3, Issue 4 - May, 1940. 6.75" x 9.75", 116 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.