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Series: Uncanny Tales

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Publisher: Marvel

Title: Uncanny Tales
Issue: 23
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: August 1954
Volume: 1

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Uncanny Tales #23
Owner: MedicAR

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Story Title: Ask No Questions! - cover
Pages:1
Genre:horror-suspense


Story Title: The Lucky Stiff! - comic story
Pages:5
Genre:horror-suspense
Synopsis:A homeless man receives a ragged old coat with pockets full of cash, but the cash disappears if he removes the coat, so everyone thinks he must have stolen the money, and won't accept it.


Story Title: The Real Nurse Kearney - text story
Pages:2
Colors:? (illustration)
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Smile, Blast Ya, Smile - comic story
Pages:4
Genre:science fiction
Synopsis:An editor for a science fiction publication is in danger of losing his job to a man who always smiles. The boss likes his story picks and so do the readers. When circulation rises the editor is fired and turns to drink. He attacks his former assistant with a knife, shredding the smiling mask, revealing the alien underneath. No one believes him and he is placed in an asylum.


Story Title: The Hidden Graveyard - comic story
Pages:5
Genre:horror-suspense
Synopsis:Explorers come upon an elephant’s graveyard deep in the jungle that is occupied by a monster with no eyes.


Story Title: Ask Me No Questions - comic story
Pages:3
Genre:fantasy
Synopsis:A father thinks his son asks him silly questions and so he gives him silly answers which annoys his mother. When the boy asks him where he came from, the father replies "The stork brought you." The boy asks "How did the stork know where to bring me?" The father replies "I blew my magic whistle" (which is a hunter's moose horn). The boy takes the horn outside and blows it and when the father goes to retrieve it, he sees dozens of storks delivering dozens of babies.


Story Title: Back Again! - promo (ad from the publisher)
Pages:1
Letters:typeset
Synopsis:House ad for Human Torch #36, Captain America #76, and Sub-mariner #36.


Story Title: Look Homeward, Werewolf! - comic story
Pages:5
Genre:horror-suspense
Synopsis:A werewolf hires a boatman to get him across the river but warns the man that water causes a violent reaction among his kind and if a single drop touch him, his life is forfeit. The boatman agrees, as he claims to be the best boatman for miles around and will have no problem keeping the werewolf dry. They cross the river without incident, but then it starts to...rain.


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