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Series: Strange Tales

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Publisher: Marvel

Title: Strange Tales
Issue: 27
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: April 1954
Volume: 1

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Story Title: The Garden of Death! - cover
Pages:1
Genre:horror-suspense


Story Title: The Poor Old Man - comic story
Pages:6
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Cynthia Harmon; Bob; John; Bruce Starr
Synopsis:A Demon offers a simple man sweeping up in a bar a wish. Knowing that the usual price for this type of offer is his soul or life, he starts to turn the Demon down. But the Demon assured him that neither of those things would be the price. So he agrees and asks for the love of a beautiful woman. When he brings this woman back to the bar, the Demon showed up and demanded his price...the life of the woman or he can go back to his simple life. He chooses to go back and the woman is left wondering why the simple man sweeping up in the bar has a strange smile while working.


Story Title: The Cask in the Cave - comic story
Pages:4
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Rodney; Jenkins; Greta; Baron Teufel


Story Title: The Clocks - text story
Pages:1.67
Letters:typeset
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Jack Arnold; Randolph Penrose


Story Title: [ no title ] - statement of ownership
Pages:0.33
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Progress! - comic story
Pages:5
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Scudder
Synopsis:When a hermit refuses to vacate his property and plants mines to halt state bulldozers, they construct the highway with a tunnel going beneath his property. This causes his house to collapse and when he investigates, he's struck and killed by a car.


Story Title: The Garden of Death! - comic story
Pages:3
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Death
Synopsis:Death views the Earth as a garden and finds the mushroom cloud of the atomic bomb a beautiful addition to his garden.


Story Title: Suffocation - comic story
Pages:5
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Vivian Cramm; George Cramm; Ella
Synopsis:A woman develops claustrophobia after she and her husband smother her aunt in a closet for her money.


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