Uncanny Tales, #12
Published: September 1953
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Bertha Gets Buried
Credits
- Pencils: Carl Burgos (uncertain)
- Inks: Carl Burgos (uncertain)
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
Story Notes
Pencils and inks credits from Chris Brown (confirmed by Doc Vassallo and Dave O'Dell) on 2 January 2005; previously credited as Sam Kweskin. Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.
The New Tenants
Storyline
A man works for a miser who cheats people on real estate deals until he gets so fed up with his boss selling run down dumps to kindly old folks that he kills him and shores up the floor support in the cellar with the man's body.
Credits
- Script: Bill Everett (uncertain)
- Pencils: Bill Everett
- Inks: Bill Everett
- Letters: Bill Everett
The Phantom Gladiator
Dead End!
Storyline
A man travels back in time and kills his younger self.
Credits
- Script: Burt Frohman
- Pencils: Tom Gill
- Inks: Tom Gill
Story Notes
script credit taken from Frohman's copy. Script dated June 1953.
Devil's Island
Storyline
A man takes his unfaithful lover in the dark to the largest pearl she has ever seen. It's still inside the giant clam which closes on her.
Credits
- Pencils: Paul Reinman
- Inks: Paul Reinman
Bertha Gets Buried
Storyline
A man assumes his wife is cheating, kills her, and buries her in the cellar. It turns out that the man he thought she was cheating with is a handyman she hired to clean out the cellar like her husband asked her to. He is digging up the floor to lay down cement when he uncovers her body.
Credits
- Pencils: Sam Kweskin
- Inks: Sam Kweskin
Polio Precautions
Story Notes
Sequence information from Tom Lammers
The Man from Outer Space
Storyline
A woman on a farm who is always complaining that she doesn't have six hands to do all the work that she is asked to gets her wish when an alien crash lands in the barn with the power to grow new limbs.
Credits
- Pencils: Bob Powell
- Inks: Bob Powell