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Series: Strange Tales

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Publisher: Marvel

Title: Strange Tales
Issue: 40
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: November 1955
Volume: 1

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Story Title: The Man Who Caught a Mermaid? - cover
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: This Dark Cave - comic story
Pages:5
Genre:horror-suspense
Synopsis:A man returns to his shelter after he mistakes a small town that has been evacuated in service of atomic bomb tests for the worldwide war that he has feared would come.


Story Title: The Search - text story
Pages:2
Letters:typeset
Genre:jungle
Characters:Uwaga; Babu; Narodu


Story Title: A Stranger on Earth - comic story
Pages:5
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Lok
Synopsis:When an alien crash lands on Earth, he is met with violence by men, but is befriended and helped to return to his ship by a dog. From orbit he thinks about destroying the planet but realizes that would kill the dogs too and refrains from his plan.


Story Title: The Man Who Caught a Mermaid! - comic story
Pages:4
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Joe Blair; Jeremy Torgan
Synopsis:A man attempts to play a joke on a skeptical friend by hiring a girl with a mermaid costume to be dropped into the sea by a helicopter and then brought out of ocean with a net. The trick works on his friend and he tells his men to throw the girl back but the friend thinks he is mad to release such an amazing discovery. He lets the man know that he set the stunt up to fool him when one of his men tells him that the girl he had hired had become ill that day and never showed up for the prank.


Story Title: The End of Time! - comic story
Pages:4
Genre:science fiction
Synopsis:God intervenes directly to stop militarists from rushing towards war.


Story Title: No Place to Hide - comic story
Pages:5
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:David Reynolds; Joshua Swift
Synopsis:A judge sentences a man to ninety days in the workhouse for vagrancy and finds himself back in time 300 years. He is pulled off the street because of his strange clothes and the judge thinks his family photograph and cigar lighter are examples of black magic. He escapes and finds himself back in the present. He has second thoughts about the sentence he has passed and releases the man he had charged the previous day.


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