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Series: Strange Tales

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Publisher: Marvel

Title: Strange Tales
Issue: 54
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: January 1957
Volume: 1
Contributors: Editor: Stan Lee

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Story Title: The Long Sleep! - cover
Pages:1
Letters:typeset
Genre:science fiction


Story Title: A Witch by Night - comic story
Pages:4
Genre:fantasy
Synopsis:Ben meets young Abby and discovers she's a witch. Abby falls in love with him and, afraid of her power, he marries her.


Story Title: The Long Sleep! - comic story
Pages:4
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Ted Pahl
Synopsis:A criminal thinks he has shot a night watchman and goes into suspended animation for forty years so that the police will forget about him, but when he comes out of the suspended animation, he reads in the old newspaper that his partner was the one who wounded the night watchman earlier in the evening and the police never suspected him.


Story Title: Something Strange on the Sand! - comic story
Pages:4
Genre:fantasy
Synopsis:A man finds a city with a treasure that only appears once every several years and attempts to steal the treasure but fails.


Story Title: Trapped in the Dark! - comic story
Pages:4
Genre:fantasy
Synopsis:A swindler whose conscience is bothering him finds himself locked in an amusement park fun house where he sees visions of the people he has cheated.


Story Title: Robot Inventor - text story
Pages:2
Letters:typeset
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Ned Carter; Mr. Jonas
Synopsis:A disgruntled janitor's obsessive effort to create a sweeping robot costs him his job and ends in failure, but only because he sees no use for a perpetual motion machine.


Story Title: The Man Who Talked! - comic story
Pages:3
Genre:fantasy
Synopsis:A ventriloquist loses his dummy overboard and the island natives are about to destroy it when the ventriloquist speaks for the dummy many miles away.


Story Title: The Punishment of Paul Phillips! - comic story
Pages:4
Genre:fantasy
Synopsis:When a man testifying in court dreams of being executed due to circumstantial evidence he changes his attitude.


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