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Series: Strange Tales

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Publisher: Marvel

Title: Strange Tales
Issue: 29
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: June 1954
Volume: 1

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Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Pages:1
Genre:horror-suspense


Story Title: Swiss Watches - advertisement
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Witchcraft! - comic story
Pages:5
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Verlan; Grau
Synopsis:An executioner thinks to drum up business by accusing an old hermit of being a witch, but the woman will not confess even under torture. The executioner disguises himself as the devil and visits her in her cell. He gets her to agree to confess when a guard sees him and raises the alarm. He attempts to remove the costume and finds that he cannot since the old hag really was a witch and uses the commotion to escape.


Story Title: Come Back, Captain - text story
Pages:2
Letters:typeset
Genre:horror-suspense


Story Title: Ladies Dresses - advertisement
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Dead Beat! - comic story
Pages:4
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Benny Troy; Bugsy; Betty
Synopsis:A crook commits fraud by selling stock in a fake uranium company and sending the money to his fiance. When he returns to her, he finds that she has invested all the money in his fake uranium company.


Story Title: Paint Spray Kit - advertisement
Pages:1
Pencils:? (photograph)
Letters:typeset


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


Story Title: Stamps - advertisement
Pages:0.5
Letters:typeset


Story Title: One Must Die - comic story
Pages:5
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Harry; Robert
Synopsis:A man in a drilling rig plots to murder his co-pilot when he discovers only enough food for one man to return from their days long subterranean journey. After he executes an accident-like death that destroys the other man's body he notices that there are no return controls on the instrument panel. He gets a radio message informing him that his co-pilot was a robot containing the reverse controls for the drilling rig.


Story Title: Weight Gain Tablet - advertisement
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: The Man in the Mask! - comic story
Pages:4
Genre:horror-suspense
Synopsis:A skeleton in a mask testifies before the UN of communist atrocities.


Story Title: Magician's Kit - advertisement
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: We Saw It Happen! - comic story
Pages:5
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Krishlal; Ral; Nalo; Aba; Valti; Sali; Johrnu; Kordu
Synopsis:In India, four different witnesses give false testimony in court, including the ghost of the deceased! The Hindu God of Justice appears in the courtroom to punish all four individuals for their deceit.


Story Title: Rings - advertisement
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Art Training - comics-form advertising
Pages:1
Synopsis:A man hates his job but has no choice, until art training allows him to do something he enjoys.


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


Story Title: Cloverline Salve - comics-form advertising
Pages:1
Pencils:? (signed RT.)
Inks:? (signed RT.)
Letters:?; typeset
Characters:Bob, Sam
Synopsis:Bob goes diving for treasure but is unsuccessful. Selling Cloverline Salve for prizes may work.


View this comic at comics.org. Data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution license.

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