Uncanny Tales, #14

Published: November 1953

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Uncanny Tales #14

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Issue Contents:
The Victims of Vonntor!
1 page horror-suspense; science fiction
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Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.

The Victims of Vonntor!
Story 1 5 pages horror-suspense
Storyline

A man with eight arms kills people and avoids being arrested for the crimes because when he is fingerprinted he shows the police a different set of hands.

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The Dreadful Formula
Story 2 2 pages
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"This is a text story with no illo"--from Chris Brown (confirmed by Doc Vassallo and Dave O'Dell) on 2 January 2005; art previously credited to Joe Sinnott.

The Hidden Martians
Story 3 5 pages science fiction
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A man charged with detecting hidden Martians is unaware that his girlfriend is one.

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Polio Precautions
Story 4 0 pages
Story Notes

Sequence information from Tom Lammers

For the Birds!
Story 5 4 pages science fiction
Storyline

When Professor Gorey realizes that there is a valuable market in interplanetary birds, he begins stealing eggs from other worlds, hatching them, and selling the rare birds. However, on one trip to a new planet, he finds a giant bird taller than a skyscraper, who mistakes his spaceship for its egg and sits down on it, crushing the ship and the professor.

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Similar plot to the Ditko story in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #80. Pencils and inks credits from Chris Brown (confirmed by Doc Vassallo and Dave O'Dell) on 2 January 2005.

The Horselaugh
Story 6 4 pages horror-suspense
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Pencils and inks credits from Chris Brown (confirmed by Doc Vassallo and Dave O'Dell) on 2 January 2005; previously credited to Bernie Krigstein.

Find a Pin and Pick It Up!
Story 7 5 pages horror-suspense
Storyline

A man fashions a voodoo doll to kill his partner and winds up killing himself.

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