Uncanny Tales, #48

Published: October 1956

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Uncanny Tales #48

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Issue Contents:
What Happened to Harry?
1 page fantasy
Credits
Story Notes

Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.

Story 1 1 page

"We'll ripple your body..."

Power Mad!
Story 2 4 pages science fiction
Storyline

A chemist thinks that he has invented a compound that makes people obey him because he gave some to a dog and the dog obeys him. He goes to a small town and convinces the people to drive out the mayor and install him. He abuses his people by hiking taxes to feather his own nest and the people send him packing. He is surprised that they did not obey him but then he realizes his compound doesn't work and the dog only obeyed him out of love and trust, the same way his influence worked at first until he abused it.

Credits
Story Notes

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

Fix Any Car Easier!
Story 3 1 page
The Whirlpool
Story 4 4 pages fantasy
Storyline

A man is depressed because his girl married another while he was in Korea so he volunteers to be part of an experiment by a professor attempting to learn if it is possible that Polynesians could have made it to the island on small rafts. The man thinks he doesn't care if he dies, but when he is captured by fish people who live under a whirlpool, he realizes he wants to live and escapes. He ends up in Polynesia, but understands that his story is too fantastic to tell the professor.

Credits
The Wishbone
Story 5 2 pages
Credits
Automatic Firing BB Machine Gun
Story 6 1 page
The Night Watcher!
Story 7 4 pages science fiction
Storyline

A man hunting a raccoon encounters an alien who wishes to shapeshift into the dominant life form so that it can prepare an invasion plan for its masters. The man convinces the alien that the raccoon he has treed is the dominant form and when the alien takes that shape he shoots it.

Credits
Story 8 2 pages

"Free to get names for our mailing list"

They'll Never Find Me
Story 9 3 pages science fiction
Storyline

A convict escapes jail and hides in a satellite that is about to be sent into orbit for fifty years with food and air as an experiment to determine the possibility of space stations. He has to make up his mind whether to leave the craft and return to life in prison or accept exile in space.

Credits
Story Notes

Wessler script per Nick Caputo from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015. Continued in "The Man in the Satellite" (K-703) in the next issue.

What Happened to Harry?
Story 10 4 pages science fiction
Storyline

An astronaut returns to Earth after abandoning his crew on an alien planet where creatures had adopted the human's appearance and the astronaut could not tell who were the people and who were the fakes.

Credits
Story 11 1 page
Story Notes

Assorted stamp, coin, psoriasis and other ads from various and sundry vendors.

Reversible Auto Seat Covers
Story 12 1 page
The Door I Dare Not Open!
Story 13 4 pages fantasy
Storyline

A man has a change of heart about a fight with his girlfriend after he spends a night in a mysterious house that shows him the woman he wanted to marry would have poisoned him for life insurance money if he had gotten what he thought he wanted years ago.

Credits
Story Notes

Art credits suggested by Saltarella and confirmed by atlastales.com.

100 Toy Soldiers $125
Story 14 1 page
Story 15 1 page

"Do you want spending money?"

Story 16 1 page

"My pal! Stop being a skinny weakling..."

Story 17 1 page

"Which of these prizes can we send you?"