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Issue: Uncanny Tales #48
Publication Date: October 1956
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Issues: #48 of 56 Issues (57 Printings)
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Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
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: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 8 (7 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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What Happened to Harry?

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Russ Heath
Inker(s): Russ Heath
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.
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Power Mad

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): George Roussos
Inker(s): George Roussos
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A chemist thinks that he has invented a compound that makes people obey him because he gave some to a dog and the dog obeys him. He goes to a small town and convinces the people to drive out the mayor and install him. He abuses his people by hiking texts to feather his own nest and the people send him packing. He is surprised that they did not obey him but then he realizes his compound doesn't work and the dog only obeyed him out of love and trust, the same way his influence worked at first until he abused it.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: K-627
Disclose Notes: Wessler script from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
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The Whirlpool

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bob Forgione
Inker(s): Bob Forgione
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: A man is depressed because his girl married another while he was in Korea so he volunteers to be part of an experiment by a professor attempting to learn if it is possible that Polynesians could have made it to the island on small rafts. The man thinks he doesn't care if he dies, but when he is captured by fish people who live under a whirlpool, he realizes he wants to live and escapes. He ends up in Polynesia, but understands that his story is too fantastic to tell the professor.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: K-601
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The Wishbone

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jay Scott Pike
Inker(s): Jay Scott Pike
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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From Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #29 published December 1955
was The Wish [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "The Wish"
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Pages: 2
Job Number: H-123
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The Night Watcher

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bill Everett
Inker(s): Bill Everett
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A man hunting a raccoon encounters an alien who wishes to shapeshift into the dominant life form so that it can prepare an invasion plan for its masters. The man convinces the alien that the raccoon he has treed is the dominant form and when the alien takes that shape he shoots it.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: K-637
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They'll Never Find Me

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Doug Wildey
Inker(s): Doug Wildey
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A convict escapes jail and hides in a satellite that is about to be sent into orbit for fifty years with food and air as an experiment to determine the possibility of space stations. He has to make up his mind whether to leave the craft and return to life in prison or accept exile in space.
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Pages: 3
Job Number: K-534
Disclose Notes: Wessler script from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
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What Happened to Harry?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Pete Morisi
Inker(s): Pete Morisi
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Pete Morisi
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: An astronaut returns to Earth after abandoning his crew on an alien planet where creatures had adopted the human's appearance and the astronaut could not tell who were the people and who were the fakes.
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The Door I Dare Not Open

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jim Mooney
Inker(s): Jim Mooney
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: A man has a change of heart about a fight with his girlfriend after he spends a night in a mysterious house that shows him the woman he wanted to marry would have poisoned him for life insurance money if he had gotten what he thought he wanted years ago.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: K-463

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