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Issue: Uncanny Tales #1

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Publication Date: June 1952

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Issues: #1 of 56 Issues (57 Printings)

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

Brand: Atlas [black & white]

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: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Stan Lee

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Format

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:

Reprinted In1

1 Content Item
- The Night Horror [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.

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Content Items (6 total)

While the City Sleeps!

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

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Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, science fiction

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Pages: 1

While the City Sleeps

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

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Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, science fiction

Synopsis: Martians infiltrate Earth by landing in cemeteries and burrowing into graves in order to wear the bodies of dead humans as a disguise.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Job Number: A-70

The Night Horror

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Adventures into Weird Worlds #27 published March 1953
as Haunted House [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "Haunted House"

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Job Number: A-191

Notes: Page 2 of this sequence follows sequence 3. Two spot illustrations by unidentified artists.

They Live Alone!

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Synopsis: Two old ladies feed investigating welfare bureau agents to their pet rats.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: A-217

The Drop of Blood

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Synopsis: A man stabs to death another man and gets a spot of blood on his shoulder when he carries the body out to a field to bury it. He tries soap and water and even kerosene but the stain won't come off his skin. He buys a nostrum from a carnival snake oil salesman who promises that it "will restore the flesh" and when he uses it, it removes the blood stain, but regenerates the body of the murder victim who then strangles him.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: A-194

Notes: Wessler credit per biblio in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol. 20, No. 4, April 2009.

Satan and Sammy Snodgrass

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Subject Matter

Genres: horror, occult

Synopsis: The Devil wants to claim the soul of a man who never refuses to take a bet so he offers to grant the man a wish, since anyone who makes a Devil's pact forfeits their soul. He makes a bet with the man that he won't let the Devil grant him a wish. Satan thinks he wins either way. The man agrees to let him grant him a wish. The Devil is overjoyed as he thinks he's won. The man wishes that the Devil never claim his soul.

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Pages: 6

Job Number: A-109