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Issue: Uncanny Tales #56
Publication Date: September 1957
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Issues: #56 of 56 Issues (57 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
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:
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
Format Notes:  
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The Glass Man; False Face!; Out of This World!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Fred Kida ?
Inker(s): Fred Kida ?
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.
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The Glass Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Bob Powell [as Powell] (signed)
Inker(s): Bob Powell [as Powell] (signed)
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Synopsis: When a man buys a can of radioactive re-silvering paint, his evil image escapes from the mirror.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-183
Disclose Notes: Wessler script from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
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The Thing In the Sky

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ruben Moreira
Inker(s): Ruben Moreira
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A scientist builds a miniature representation of the solar system which somehow allows him to observe events in the past and future. When his cat jumps into the device, it becomes suspended and people outside on the street see an image of the animal. He dismantles the device as he is concerned about the possible effects damage to the model Earth could have on the real Earth.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMystic #3 published January 1960
as The Thing in the Sky! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-199
Disclose Notes: Unknown script per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Stan Lee.
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False Face

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Ed Winiarski [as Win] (signed)
Inker(s): Ed Winiarski
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, mystery
Synopsis: An impersonator picks the wrong man to use as a disguise for a heist when the police pick him up because the bank president he's disguised as has been jailed on embezzlement charges.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-184
Disclose Notes: Wessler script per biblio in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 26, No. 4, April 2015. Previous indexer credited Stan Lee.
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A Cry For Help

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Sol Brodsky [as Solly] (signed)
Inker(s): Sol Brodsky [as Solly] (signed)
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, mystery
Synopsis: Three punks try to mug an organ grinder but regret it when his monkey turns out to be a large gorilla.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: M-140
Disclose Notes: Unknown script per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Stan Lee.
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Maestro Ricardo

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Joe Maneely
Inker(s): Joe Maneely
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagStrange Stories of Suspense #6 published December 1955
was The Baton [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "Maestro Ricardo"
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: H-91
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Out of This World

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bernie Krigstein
Inker(s): Bernie Krigstein
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: Thieves interrupt scientists conducting an experiment so that they can steal uranium, but they wind up in another dimension.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMessages in a Bottle: Comic Book Stories by B. Krigstein #[nn] published April 2013
as Out of This World [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-157
Disclose Notes: Unknown script per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Stan Lee.
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Confession of Murder

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Frank Bolle [as FWB] (signed)
Inker(s): Frank Bolle [as FWB] (signed)
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, mystery
Synopsis: A destitute man confesses to manslaughter, but the police tell him that he saw a ghost and give him a job referral.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMystic #3 published January 1960
as Confession of Murder! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-252?
Disclose Notes: Unknown script per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Stan Lee.

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