Strange Tales (1951-1976 1st Series) comic books 1951

Cover art maybe by Carl Burgos. The Strange Men, art by Paul Reinman; Doctor Lemut from Saturn discusses his plans for Earth conquest with a captured Navy pilot, but the man succeeds in escaping. The Beast, art by Manny Stallman; An evil man is regressed into an ape and he attacks and kills the experimenter; The authorities capture and place him in a zoo. The Room That Didn't Exist. A Call In the Night, art by George Tuska. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

The Egg, pencils by Morris Marcus, inks by Frank R. Siemienski; Aliens send eggs which disgorge a toxic substance when opened. Fear Is Your Fortune text story. Trapped In the Tomb, art by Norman Steinberg; A scientist invents a box which can teleport a person's spirit and loans it to a friend. The Island of Madmen, art by Ed Moore; Two men and a woman find themselves stranded on an island that is supposed to be inhabited by a demon and one man is killed but it turns out that the woman is the monster. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

The Shadow, art by Joe Maneely; When a man's rival slugs him and he falls and breaks his neck, he doesn't realize that he's dead until he notices the absence of his shadow; Eventually he spies the shadow and it darts away from him. The Man Who Never Was, art by John Romita? (ghost) [as Les Zakarin]; A man who conceives of Death as a person is wiped out of existence along with his friends. Trapped In the Cave of Horror text story. Invisible Death, art by Mike Sekowsky. The Madman, art by Joe Maneely; A man is turned invisible by a spiteful poltergeist. Voodoo, art by Bill LaCava; A man gets a voodoo practitioner to cause his wife to die, but when he finds out she has inherited a large sum of money, he asks the practitioner to call off the spell. 36 pgs. $0.10. Atom bomb panel. Cover price $0.10.

"The Evil Eye," art by Bill Everett; Prof. Lyle Chambers summons a gigantic, floating eye from outer space, which has the power to shoot death rays and blow up buildings merely by looking at them; Chambers' idea is to force the government to make him the dictator of America in exchange for removing the destructive force, but the eye eventually turns on him and blasts him into nothingness. "Dial...City Morgue!", art by Sol Brodsky; Our protagonist, Ted, uses his new phone in an attempt to call a business rival, but instead hears a mysterious voice saying "City Morgue!"; Just ten minutes later, Ted's rival dies in a hit-and-run killing. "Sculpture of Death" text story. "It!", art by John Romita; Bill and Jenny, a young married couple, adopt a baby, but they are soon plagued by a mysterious series of accidents, including a poisoned mug of coffee and a house fire; Jenny trips over the baby's teddy bear and falls down the stairs to her death; the story is a swipe of Ray Bradbury's "The Small Assassin." "The Man on the Beach!", art by Bill LaCava; While walking on the beach, a young couple encounters a ragged beachcomber who claims that the world is doomed; He explains that he used to be a clumsy and inept bookkeeper named Robert Gordon who was transported 5,000 years into the future as part of a scheme to save the world. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.