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Series: Strange Tales

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Publisher: Marvel

Title: Strange Tales
Issue: 66
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: December 1958
Volume: 1

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Story Title: The Ghost Came C.O.D.! - cover
Pages:1
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Charlie Rompel


Story Title: The Ghost Came C.O.D. - comic story
Pages:4
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Eban Goad; Charles Rompel
Synopsis:A schemer comes up with the idea to send off invoices to the recently deceased figuring grieving widows will just pay the invoice to take care of the matter quickly. The fraud works until one of the dead comes back to his shop and reveals himself as a Martian living within the body of a human. The Martian silences the schemer.


Story Title: The Replacement! - comic story
Pages:4
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Jack Hartley; Harry Groves; Mrs. Groves
Synopsis:A criminal steals a dying man's jacket and when he finds an airline ticket in the pocket he attempts to use the plane to escape the police. When he boards the plane it takes off and he is surprised to see that there are no other passengers or even a pilot. He panics and tries to leave the plane. The police find his body in a field as though he had fallen from a great height. Since the criminal had taken Death's plane ticket meant for him, the dying man recovers.


Story Title: The Voice of Fido! - comic story
Pages:3
Genre:fantasy
Characters:Hank Walton; Ned Walton; Fido
Synopsis:A ventriloquist uses a dog in his act in place of a dummy. When a fire breaks out the dog leads people out by speaking and the ventriloquist gets credit for it, but the ventriloquist denies speaking.


Story Title: It Waits under the Sea! - comic story
Pages:4
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Felix Bradin; Harry Spahn
Synopsis:A man plans to traverse the globe completely underwater, but when he sees a tunnel he becomes curious and directs the submarine into it. He becomes trapped in a holding tank for Marineland and won't be found until the exhibit is next opened.


Story Title: The Eerie Experiment! - comic story
Pages:4
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Ben Darrow; Howie Barnes; Phil Walker; Mark Nichols; The Friends Club [Peter Ivanov; Barney Graham; John Barr [Joe Berrie]; Henry Adamo [Herbert Franklin]; Wallace]
Synopsis:Two men in 1977 using a radio attempt to warn a government agent breaking up a communist spy ring in the past.


Story Title: Time Machine - text story
Pages:2
Letters:typeset
Genre:science fiction
Synopsis:A man's fascination with history leads him to build a time machine and travel to the past, but when he sees the dangers of time travel he destroys the machine and blueprints.


Story Title: He Wore a Black Beard - comic story
Pages:4
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Wally Rogers; Ralph Blaine
Synopsis:A man living with an inventor is surprised by a visitor who claims to be from the future. The man resents the inventor and comes up with a scheme to frame him with the time traveler's help, but after he steals money and gives it to him, he realizes the time traveler is the future self of the inventor he lives with and the man is not going to frame himself.


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