Uncanny Tales (1973 Marvel) comic books 1975

All reprints. Cover pencils by Arvell Jones, inks by Klaus Janson. "Escape...To What?" (from Uncanny Tales 3); A man tries to escape from Hell and fails. "The Tin Cup" (from Uncanny Tales 3) pencils by Don Perlin, inks by Abe Simon; An actor poses as crippled, scarred and blind in one eye so as to bilk people out of sympathy money but then fate conspires to inflict such deformities upon him for real. "Man with a Tail" (from Astonishing 18), art by Larry Woromay; A man born with a tail meets a woman with a tail at a carnival freak show and is happy that he is no longer alone, but she strangles him; Her tail reflects feline characteristics while his is that of a rodent. "The Toy Soldiers" (from Tales to Astonish 39--Comic erroneously says reprinted from Tales to Astonish 18), script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; A boy who enjoys toy soldiers buys a new civil war figure to place in his prisoner of war stockade; That evening, he and his father are attacked by an invader from the sixth dimension; Suddenly, the lights go out, and when they turn the lights back on, the invader has disappeared. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.25.

All reprints. Cover inks by Klaus Janson. "Don't Answer the Phone!" (from Strange Tales of the Unusual #10), art by Gray Morrow; A man's murdered wife continues to phone him from the grave until he confesses to the police. "The Nightmare Men" (from Strange Tales of the Unusual #10), art by Mac L. Pakula; A tyrant's sleep is disturbed every night by men who approach him with the word 'justice' emblazoned upon armbands; These men intend to drag him off, but he awakens before they do so; When the tyrant forces a doctor to treat him, his guards find him missing the following morning. "Four Empty Chairs!" (from Mystery Tales #51), art by Marvin Stein; A man's family disappears one evening and a stranger explains to the town sheriff that they are from another dimension waiting for a lightning bolt of sufficient strength to send them all back to their home dimension. "Peter and the Puppet!" (from Marvel Tales #110), script by Bill Benulis, inks by Jack Abel; A ventriloquist's dummy is actually alive and becomes a rival for his girlfriend's affections. "When the Walls Close In!" (from Astonishing #54-- Story miscredited as from Astonishing #52), art by Bob Brown; An escaped war criminal feels claustrophobia until his guilt makes him confess. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.25.

All reprints. "The Strange Magic of Master Khan!" (from Strange Tales #77), art by Steve Ditko; A pirate steals the ship of an Asian sorcerer; The ship's owner curses the thieves, shrinking the ship and imprisoning them in a glass bottle. "The Dummy and Me!" (from Strange Tales #76), art by Paul Reinman; Some gangsters come for a ventriloquist who has unpaid gambling debts; They corner him in the alley and shoot him, not realizing that it was the puppet who made his decisions all along. "The Man in the Glass Cage" (from Strange Tales #99), art by Don Heck; A sound engineer tries to kill a girl who spurned him using sound waves; When they fail, he is confused, and, is killed by the waves which didn't affect the secretly hard-of-hearing girl. "The Silent Street!" (from World of Fantasy #10); A police officer makes his night rounds thinking that nothing interesting ever happens in the neighborhood while two aliens are conducting a life or death struggle among the rooftops. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.25.

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All reprints. Cover inks by Frank Giacoia. "I Found the Mad Universe!" (from Strange Tales #76), art by Steve Ditko; A scientist uses a powerful new microscope to discover an entire world existing at the sub-atomic level; He is horrified to find that this world, Earth, is just as barbaric and violent as his own. "The Dead Don't Sleep!" (from Adventures into Terror #30), art by Al Eadeh; The ghost of a murderer kills a medium who has been disturbing the sleep of the dead. "I Saw the Elephants' Graveyard!" (from Strange Tales #72), art by John Forte; An ivory hunter searches for the legendary spot where elephants go to die, but he finds that the spot is an inaccessible pit of quicksand. "Escape!" (from Menace #4), script by Stan Lee, art by Russ Heath; A spy fails in his effort to steal an element required in the construction of a hydrogen bomb so he knows he faces death if caught by the police or the Communists; He reads of a rocket to the moon and thinks if he can get aboard that he will be safe, but he doesn't realize the test rocket is not large enough to hold a human passenger. "The Big Bang!!" Hostess snack cakes ad featuring Captain Marvel. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.25.

All reprints. Cover pencils by Ron Wilson, inks by Frank Giacoia. "Titan, the Amphibian from Atlantis!" (from Tales of Suspense #28), pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Russ Heath; John Cartwright, an auto executive, pretends to betray the human race to the invaders from Atlantis. "Buried Alive!" (from Men's Adventures #24), art by John Romita; An unscrupulous mine owner alienates his son by his immoral business practices, and the son is later killed in one of his family's unsafe mines. Marvel Treasury Editions ad. Marvel Comic Con 1975! ad. "A Switch in Time!" (from Strange Tales #99--miscredited to Journey Into Mystery #99), script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko; In the year 2050 a prisoner reads about the invention of a time machine and so breaks jail to return to the past to rub out the one witness to his crime; However, as he attempts to assault the man, he realizes that he has been rendered intangible like a ghost so as to be unable to effect any change in the course of events. "The King Is Back! 'Nuff Said!" Bullpen Bulletins article, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Sol Brodsky and Joe Sinnott; Stan Lee announces Jack Kirby's return to Marvel and some of the titles he will be writing and drawing. Ad for FOOM magazine. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.25.