XOW Logo
  • Location
    • Home
    • Issue Detail, List Content Items
in for
   
by
Twitter Logo Facebook Logo
Report a Bug Ask for Support Review Site Apply to be an Editor
Issue: Strange Tales #39
Publication Date: October 1955
Previous Base Issue Previous Issue Variant Next Issue Variant Next Base Issue
 
Disclose Detail
Issues: #39 of 168 Issues (243 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Atlas [black & white]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Chipiden Publishing Corp.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee
Disclose Notes:  
  Does this data need corrections? Become an editor.
Disclose Format
Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US and standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Format Notes:  
Disclose Reprinted In13
Disclose Reprinted From0
There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Assets0
 
spacer
Disclose Content Items (7 total)
Disclose Issue Images
[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Carl Burgos
Inker(s): Carl Burgos
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #4 [Regular Edition] published April 2011
as Strange Tales #39 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose
Karnoff's Plan

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Everett ?
Penciller(s): Bill Everett (signed)
Inker(s): Bill Everett (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Bill Everett
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Professor Karnoff
Synopsis: A Puppet Master type story but his material works on buildings as well as people. He meets his doom when his landlady sells his statue of himself along with other personal items for nonpayment of rent and the buyer tosses it in the trash.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #4 [Regular Edition] published April 2011
as Karnoff's Plan! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: G-785
Disclose
Music Master

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jay Scott Pike (illustration)
Inker(s): Jay Scott Pike (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Joe; Gus; Angelo
Synopsis: A struggling band takes on a poor but talented young harp player who turns out to be a young angel studying on Earth.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales #153 published December 1956
as Music From Above [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "Music from Above" with new illustrations by John Severin
In Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #54 published September 1959
as Music Master [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #79 [U.S. Cover Price] published December 1960
as Music Master [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales of Suspense #26 [U.S. Cover Price] published February 1962
as Music Master [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #99 [U.S. Cover Price] published August 1962
as Music Master [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales of Suspense #41 [U.S. Cover Price] published May 1963
as Music Master [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #4 [Regular Edition] published April 2011
as Music Master [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: G-804
Disclose
Blind Spot

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Sid Greene
Inker(s): Sid Greene
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A homely alien is going to recommend humans be destroyed to preserve the galactic peace when he saves a blind girl from being struck by a car. After she tells him she can sense his inner nobility he changes his recommendation to allow humans to develop their space-faring capability.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #4 [Regular Edition] published April 2011
as Blind Spot! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: G-271
Disclose Notes: This story is reminiscent of Alicia Master's first meeting with the Silver Surfer.
Disclose
The Secret of the Ship

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Paul S. Newman
Penciller(s): Kurt Schaffenberger
Inker(s): Kurt Schaffenberger
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Peter Grant
Synopsis: A young boy who plays with toy ships loses his paper route job when he is late once too often. The family needs extra money because the father is home recovering from an illness. The boy thinks his ship has become lost, but after awhile it returns loaded with black pearls it has traded for at a distant port.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #4 [Regular Edition] published April 2011
as The Secret of the Ship [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: G-697
Disclose
The Man Mountain!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Norman Maurer [as NM] (signed)
Inker(s): Norman Maurer [as NM] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Mammoth
Synopsis: A story that explains the circumstances of the old woman who had so many children she didn't know what to do came to live in a shoe.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #4 [Regular Edition] published April 2011
as The Man Mountain! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: G-698
Disclose
Five Who Volunteered

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Joe Sinnott (signed)
Inker(s): Joe Sinnott (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Burt Lloyd; Edmund Carter; Fred Burgess; Laura Beatty; George Reynolds; Morton; Edith Roger
Synopsis: A TV producer of a candid-camera type show contacts an inventor who doesn't believe his rocket can fly to Venus. The producer says that's ok because he wants to advertise for five people who wish to leave Earth and film them being fooled by the fraud for the audience's amusement. The inventor agrees and is surprised when his rocket actually does succeed in reaching Venus, but not nearly as surprised as the producer and his film crew when the five recruits shape-shift into Venusians who are glad to be home.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #4 [Regular Edition] published April 2011
as Five Who Volunteered [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: G-741
Disclose Notes: Wessler credit per biblio in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol. 25, No. 10, October 2013.

Site designed and hosted by XOWTech, Inc..
Any questions or problems with this site should be directed to REMOVE-webmaestro-THESE@xowcomics.com.

XOW, XOWComics.com, XOWTech and XOWTech.com are registered trademarks of XOWTech, Inc.
© XOWTech, Inc., 2010 - 2024. All rights reserved.

Some data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution license.