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Issue: Uncanny Tales #6
Publication Date: March 1953
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Issues: #6 of 56 Issues (57 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Atlas [black & white]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Prime Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Format Notes:  
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He Lurks in the Shadows!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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He Lurks in the Shadows

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: 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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCrypt of Shadows #16 published March 1975
as He Lurks in the Shadows [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagL'Incroyable Hulk #51 published October 1975
as Il rôde dans l'ombre [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: B-894
Disclose Notes: Inspired by "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry (New York World, 1905). Note by Tom Lammers.
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A Vampire Is Loose

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: 9686
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The Man Who Changed

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: 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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagGiant-Size Dracula #3 published December 1974
as The Man Who Changed [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: B-824
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I Was a Vampire

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: 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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagGiant-Size Dracula #3 published December 1974
as I Was a Vampire [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThor e i Vendicatori #162 published June 1977
as Ero un vampiro [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSpider-Man vs. Dracula #1 [Direct Edition] published January 1994
as I Was a Vampire [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagArt in Time: Unknown Comic Book Adventures, 1940-1980 #[nn] published May 2010
as I Was a Vampire [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGespenster Geschichten #1075 published ?
as Wohin die Liebe fällt… [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: B-853
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The Stooge

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: 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.
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In Content Item: FlagCreatures on the Loose #33 [U.S. Cover Price] published January 1975
as The Stooge [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMonster Menace #3 published February 1994
as The Stooge [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGespenster Geschichten #1086 published ?
as Handlanger [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: B-796
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The Mark of Death!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: 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 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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagVault of Evil #17 published February 1975
as The Mark of Death! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: B-921

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