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Issue: Uncanny Tales #7
Publication Date: April 1953
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Issues: #7 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: 8 (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
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Kill, Clown, Kill!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.
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Kill, Clown, Kill!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, horror
Synopsis: 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 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.
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Pages: 6
Job Number: C-106
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The Witch of Landor

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: 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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagChamber of Chills #15 published March 1975
as The Witch of Landoor [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: C-61
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The Twins

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1.67
Job Number: C-102
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Statement of ownership

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Monroe Froehlich, Jr.
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Statement Required by the Act of August 24, 1912:
For 1 October 1952. Stan Lee, Editor; Martin Goodman, Managing Editor; Monroe Froehlich, Jr., Business Manager.
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The Gal Who Talked Too Much!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: 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.
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In Content Item: FlagTomb of Darkness #13 published March 1975
as The Gal Who Talked Too Much! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
Job Number: C-259
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Planet of Death!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: Aliens find Earth air poisonous so they observe a man haranguing a crowd about flying saucers through a telescope.
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Pages: 3
Job Number: C-66
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I Was Locked In a... Haunted House!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagChamber of Chills #15 published March 1975
as I Was Locked in a... Haunted House! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
Job Number: C-78
Disclose Notes: Plot is similar to the Ditko story in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #42 and the Heck story "I Spent a Night in a Haunted House", in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #80.

Appearing are boys reading comic books including Marvel Tales, Mystic, Uncanny Tales; others appear on a newsstand, including [Adventures into] Weird Worlds, Battle, Combat Casey, Combat Kelly, [Journey into] Unknown Worlds, Man Comics, Spy [Cases], Strange Tales, Suspense and War Comics
Most notes by Tom Lammers.

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