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 #65
Publication Date: October 1958
Previous Base Issue Previous Issue Variant Next Issue Variant Next Base Issue
 
Disclose Detail
Issues: #65 of 168 Issues (243 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
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: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in May 1958. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. The stories in this issue all bear the logo reading "A Tale of Mystery to Hold You Spellbound!" used by the cancelled Spellbound (Marvel, 1952 series) perhaps indicating that this was built on an unpublished pre-implosion issue.

Information on this issue supplied by Tom Lammers and the Atlas/Timely discussion list. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
  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 In2
reprinted 2 times as Content Items in other Issues.
Disclose Reprinted From1
reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Assets0
 
spacer
Disclose Content Items (8 total)
Disclose Issue Images
Afraid To Open the Door!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee
Penciller(s): Joe Maneely
Inker(s): Joe Maneely
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Morse; John Hayes
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #154 published January 1975
as Afraid to Open the Door! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #188 published January 1979
as Afraid to Open the Door! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: John Hayes is a ghost on the cover, but not in the story.
Disclose
Afraid To Open the Door!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Dan Loprino (signed)
Inker(s): Dan Loprino (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Morse; John Hayes
Synopsis: A thief trying to rob a reclusive scientist finds him in a room with two doors. The scientist tells him if he leaves through the wrong door he will be trapped in a shadow world of strange creatures so the criminal decides to wait until someone else enters by one of the doors so that he knows which one leads back to the ordinary world.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-346
Disclose
The House That Cried!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Christopher Rule
Inker(s): Christopher Rule
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Smitty; Elvira Lanson; Luke Lanson (flashback); Fred (flashback); Helen (flashback); Tony Fargo (flashback)
Synopsis: A hobo tries to rob an old woman in a dilapidated house who turns out to be a ghost.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: M-332
Disclose
The Ragged Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Richard Doxsee (signed)
Inker(s): Richard Doxsee (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Character(s): Otis Larr; Hubert Larr; Annie
Synopsis: A heartless businessman gets what's coming to him when the geiger counter he keeps on his yacht goes off and he spends all his money buying worthless land because he thinks that there is a fortune in uranium underwater. It turns out that there was a nuclear sub under his yacht at the time.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-486
Disclose
The Terrible Tree!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Forte (signed)
Inker(s): John Forte (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Ross Evans
Synopsis: A man weakens a large redwood tree so that it will fall on his farm and he can collect on the insurance policy. Objects made from the tree pursue vengeance upon him, until he finds himself trapped on a boat made of the tree out at sea.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-319
Disclose
The Perfectly Frightened Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Robert Q. Sale (signed)
Inker(s): Robert Q. Sale (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Bob Franklin; Helen Franklin
Synopsis: A man is convinced by his wife that he is the victim of a hoax designed to make him think he has inherited sorcerous powers, but when he says "I'll be a monkey's uncle", he turns into one.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-348
Disclose
The Missing Film

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Severin (illustration)
Inker(s): John Severin (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage, occult
Character(s): Dr. Title; Douglas Jenks
Synopsis: A government agent retrieves a classified microfilm stolen to be given to enemy agents, and is helped by a magic bridge.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAdventure into Mystery #7 published May 1957
was The Missing Film [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: J-707
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
Disclose
When the Curtain Falls!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bernard Baily
Inker(s): Bernard Baily
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Otto Groat; Carlotta Delys; Richard Sinclair
Synopsis: A jealous stagehand swaps a real dagger for a rubber prop hoping that his actor rival will stab himself and he will be free to pursue his love interest without competition. The actor only scratches himself, however, and when the stagehand becomes trapped he fails to free himself in time armed with merely a rubber dagger.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-397

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.