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Series: Strange Tales

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Publisher: Marvel

Title: Strange Tales
Issue: 46
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: May 1956
Volume: 1

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Story Title: You Must Not Look! - cover
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: How I Made a Small Fortune In Spare Time - comics-form advertising
Pages:1
Letters:?; typeset
Characters:William Bergstrom
Synopsis:William Bergstrom wants to make extra money. Selling shoes in his spare time could help.


Story Title: The Sands Are Running Out - comic story
Pages:4
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Hiram Holt; Tom Fleming
Synopsis:A man acquires an hourglass which can send him into the future. He asks a pedestrian what year it is and the man replies '71. He assumes 1971 and learns of deposits in the land which make men wealthy and so uses the hourglass to return to the past again and spends all his money buying up the land. He goes into the future again to check his account at the bank and the clerk tells him he is not listed. When he mentions the year the clerk tells him that it is 2071. The man returns to the past and tries to sell off the land, but the previous sellers refuse to buy it back.


Story Title: Jet "Rocket" Space Ship! - advertisement
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: The Man from Nowhere - comic story
Pages:4
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Joe Axel; Judy Axel
Synopsis:A Martian scientist who appears among humans by harnessing the power of lightning bolts finds that his method of travel disturbs people.


Story Title: Body Building Home Gym - advertisement
Pages:1
Pencils:? (photograph)
Inks:? (photograph)
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Repeat Performance - comic story
Pages:3
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Ted; Alice; Paul Revere (ghost)
Synopsis:A tourist couple encounter Paul Revere when he comes back to view Battle Green.


Story Title: Planet X - text story
Pages:1.67
Letters:typeset
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Biff Holsum; Red
Synopsis:Biff sits across from a young boy in a train who talks as though he is from outer space.


Story Title: Army Patches - advertisement
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: The Wild, Wild Wind - comic story
Pages:4
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Fred; John
Synopsis:A ship directs its own course to the consternation of the sailors aboard and lands at a secluded island to rescue descendants of victims of a mutiny that had occurred aboard her timbers 100 years ago.


Story Title: Daisy Gunbook - advertisement
Pages:0.33
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Write Love Letters - advertisement
Pages:0.5
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Car Seat Covers - advertisement
Pages:0.5
Letters:typeset


Story Title: You Must Not Look - comic story
Pages:4
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Charlie Boswell; Ada Boswell; Frederic Armstrong; Nora Armstrong
Synopsis:A little girl tears up an important letter to her father just to be spiteful after he grounds her. He asks her to tell the truth if she has seen it, and she lies, but her conscience bothers her and she keeps the letter in a box year after year. When she finally tells the truth about the box to her husband he looks in the box and finds money.


Story Title: Shop by Mail - advertisement
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: The Greatest Experiment - comic story
Pages:4
Genre:science fiction
Synopsis:Scientists send robots into space for economic means by mining minerals from unexplored planets to fund their experiments. After a few years, they travel to the planet they sent the robots off to and are astonished to find that the robots have greatly developed it. They do not profit, however, as the robots turn the tables on them and put them on a rocket heading back to Earth.


Story Title: Sell Mottoes - advertisement
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Drawing Contest - advertisement
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Body Building Course - advertisement
Pages:1
Pencils:? (photograph)
Inks:? (photograph)
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Sell Cloverline Salve - advertisement
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


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