Strange Tales, #43
Published: February 1956
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The Mysterious Machine!
Credits
- Pencils: Russ Heath
- Inks: Russ Heath
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
The Man Who Lived Twice!
Storyline
A man dying on the operating table finds that time has stopped for everybody but him. He intuits that eventually time will start back up, but he uses the time he has been given to do good deeds for people.
Credits
- Script: Paul S. Newman
- Pencils: Peter James
- Inks: Peter James
- Letters: Artie Simek
Story Notes
Title lettering is by Artie Simek. The rest is by an unknown letterer.
The Swami
Storyline
A greedy man misinterprets a fortune-teller's prediction and spends money that he'll never have.
I Saved Mankind!
Storyline
A man drives off aliens that were attempting to pour canisters into water reservoirs but the contents would have made people immune to disease.
Credits
- Pencils: John Forte
- Inks: John Forte
- Letters: Morrie Kuramoto
Behind the Mask!
Storyline
A clown who can't have children finds an abandoned baby and takes him in only to discover the seeming infant is an alien spy. He is about to turn the creature in until he overhears the spy give his report to his superiors and requests that he be able to remain a human infant since he loves his adoptive parents.
Credits
- Pencils: Bob Brown
- Inks: Joe Giella (uncertain)
- Letters: Morrie Kuramoto
Story Notes
Possible Giella inks per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Bob Brown.
The Mysterious Machine!
Storyline
A man invents a machine that changes his wife from harping shrew to devoted haus frau.
Credits
- Pencils: Rebecca Shiets
- Inks: Steve Kirkel
- Letters: Joe Letterese
The Unbelievable Man!
Storyline
A man from 1793 uses a time machine to bring electronic parts from 1956 into the past for his experiments until he is interrupted by researchers. They force him to return to the past without the last component he needs for his work and all the electric lights around the world go out.
Credits
- Script: Paul S. Newman
- Pencils: Bob Forgione
- Inks: Jack Abel
- Letters: Morrie Kuramoto