Uncanny Tales, #49
Published: November 1956
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Issue Contents:
Four Frightened People!
Credits
- Pencils: Carl Burgos
- Inks: Carl Burgos
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
Story Notes
Burgos credit per Atlastales.com and Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Sol Brodsky. Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.
The Man with No Face!
Storyline
A rich man becomes annoyed when he sees a junk dealer's horse and wagon move in next to him. The end of the story reveals that the neighbor is an earlier version of himself. His success had poisoned the compassion that he used to feel for people, but now that he has faced what he has become, he resolves to turn over a new leaf.
Credits
- Script: Carl Wessler
- Pencils: Gene Colan
- Inks: Gene Colan (uncertain)
Story Notes
Wessler script per Nick Caputo from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
Four Frightened People
"The great lord Han had given a command!"
Credits
- Script: Carl Wessler
- Pencils: George Roussos
- Inks: George Roussos
Story Notes
"Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" without Santa Claus. Wessler script per Nick Caputo from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
I Follow Him!
Storyline
A mind reader encounters a disguised alien who comes from a planet rich with gold and diamonds and he decides to blackmail treasure out of him or he'll expose him, however, the aliens easily apprehend him because they all read minds.
Credits
- Pencils: Ed Winiarski
- Inks: Ed Winiarski
The Lifeless One!
Storyline
An ugly man pours his heart out to a store mannequin who turns out to be an alien spy. She takes him to her world and they live happily ever after.
Credits
- Pencils: Howard O'Donnell
- Inks: Howard O'Donnell
Doubting Thomas
Storyline
A man with no imagination is invited to a costume party by his girlfriend, but stumbles across real fairy-tale folk instead.
Characters
- Tommy
- Kitty Blake
- Old King Cole
The Man in the Satellite
Storyline
A convict who hides in a satellite stays in orbit for fifty years.
Credits
- Script: Carl Wessler
- Pencils: Joe Orlando
- Inks: Joe Orlando
Story Notes
Sequel to K-534 "They'll Never Find Me" in the previous issue; note in splash reads in part, "Those of you who read a story called 'They'll Never Find Me!', in the previous issue of Uncanny Tales, may recall ... Here follows a sequel to that strange story!" (Note by Tom Lammers)
Footprints to Nowhere!
Storyline
A man jealous that he won't get the credit for discovering the missing link takes some dynamite to blow it up, but all he succeeds in doing is releasing it and it attacks him.
Credits
- Pencils: Vic Carrabotta
- Inks: Vic Carrabotta