Uncanny Tales, #45

Published: July 1956

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Uncanny Tales #45

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Inside the Pit!
1 page science fiction
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Story Notes

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

The Hand!
Story 1 4 pages fantasy
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The Men with Green Blood
Story 2 4 pages science fiction
Storyline

A doctor treats a wounded patient with green blood, but the patient dies and the blood color reverts to red. After he leaves the clinic, two people tail him but he manages to give them the slip and follow them back to a house where he learns they are mutants. A fire starts, and he escapes, but he suffers a cut during the experience and learns that he is a mutant as well.

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Inside the Pit! (1)
Story 3 4 pages science fiction
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A woman berates her husband for not being ambitious and he has an accident at the power plant which changes his personality. He attempts to extort the city by threatening to detonate the power plant, but another accident is arranged which puts his personality back the way it was and his wife is content.

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Story Notes

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

The Cure!
Story 4 3 pages science fiction
Storyline

A doctor uses a time machine to try and wipe out the common cold virus in the past, but when he returns to the present he finds it overrun with beetles that the cold virus had destroyed before he mucked with time.

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Movie Marvel
Story 5 2 pages
An Hour to Live!
Story 6 4 pages science fiction
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A man given three months to live builds a time machine which takes him to a point in the future where Earth's oxygen is diminishing with only a few hours left.

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Behind the Wall!
Story 7 4 pages science fiction
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A man who resents the Great Wall of China as taking up resources that could have accelerated scientific progress finds himself back in time at its construction. He confronts the emperor who reveals that the wall was not built to keep out the Tartars, but rather alien invaders who ride dragon-like beasts and use gunpowder weapons.

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  • Qín Shǐ Huáng (The First Emperor of China, 259-210 BC)
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