Uncanny Tales, #44

Published: June 1956

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Uncanny Tales #44

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Issue Contents:
Out of the Swamp!
1 page
Credits
Story Notes

Burgos credit per Atlastales.com and Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Sol Brodsky. Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.

Out of the Swamps!
Story 1 4 pages horror-suspense; science fiction
Storyline

A scientist discovers a type of lemur living in the swamp that only lives for a week. He gets the idea to conduct an experiment in accelerated evolution and they produce wondrous discoveries which he shares with mankind. His contact with the outside world wants the power that such information would give him and so, after defeating the villain, the lemurs decide to return to the swamp where they will soon go back to their old ways of living.

Credits
The Frightened Man!
Story 2 4 pages crime
Storyline

A man disguises himself as an alien from Pluto to fool a paranoid dictator into imprisoning his entire cabinet on suspicion of treason so that the people can overthrow him.

Story Notes

Wessler script per Nick Caputo from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.

She Came From Nowhere!
Story 3 4 pages
Credits
Beyond Belief!
Story 4 3 pages science fiction
Storyline

An inventor develops a gas that suspends gravity and tests it out on a various houses before announcing his demands to the government. A stray dog jumps through an open window looking for a handout but the man shouts at it to get out. When it jumps back out the window it knocks over the entire canister of the gas sending the man's house into orbit.

Credits
Traveling Sam
Story 5 2 pages fantasy
Storyline

A bookkeeper gives up his fantasies of travel and goes back to handball after a strange encounter with two Indian magicians.

Characters
  • Sam Craig
Planet of Doom
Story 6 4 pages
Credits
The Girl Who Didn't Exist!
Story 7 4 pages fantasy
Storyline

An archeologist fancies the maiden statue that is uncovered among Roman ruins so much that he is drawn back in time to marry her and become the next Caesar.

Story Notes

Wessler script per Nick Caputo from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.