Uncanny Tales, #54

Published: April 1957

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Uncanny Tales #54

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Issue Contents:
The Moving Walls!
1 page crime
Credits
Story Notes

Burgos credits per Atlastales.com and Nick Caputo. Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.

Mystery in Midville
Story 1 4 pages fantasy
Storyline

A petty thief comes across a city where every person is considerate and helpful. The man who takes him in tells him not to touch a certain box as it took him fifty years to gather its contents. The thief thinks that it must be very valuable and so opens the box that belongs to Pandora.

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Story Notes

Inspired by the Greek myth of Pandora's Box. (Note by Tom Lammers)

The Warning!
Story 2 4 pages science fiction
Storyline

A scientist recreates the serum that gave Midas his golden touch and feeds it to his dog. Anything the dog touches turns to gold and he donates the gold to help people. Another man with greedy intent breaks in and unlocks the dog's cage. While the two men are locked in a struggle, the dog touches them and they are transmuted into gold. The statue is displayed as a moral lesson for people of the struggle between selflessness and greed.

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The Hidden Island
Story 3 4 pages fantasy
Storyline

A man ventures out to a mist-hidden island that has curative properties in order to marry a couple there.

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The Remedy Oil
Story 4 2 pages science fiction
Storyline

An old-fashioned shopkeeper unwittingly saves the life of a boy from Mechanica when her remedy oil lubricates the gears in his brain.

Characters
  • Mrs. Gerrity
  • Tom Gerrity
  • Officer O'Malley
  • Logarithm
Credits
Story Notes

Text story with illustrations. Original title: "The Old Shop." Artist credit from www.atlastales.com.

Inside the Tomb!
Story 5 4 pages horror-suspense
Storyline

An ancient tomb is guarded by hypnotists.

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The Terrible Fate of Mr. Wren!
Story 6 3 pages science fiction
Storyline

A scientist puts off marrying until he is wealthy because he wants to avoid the mistake of his parents always arguing since they were poor. He becomes wealthy by inventing a matter duplicator device. When the girl he wishes to marry steps in front of the device, there are now two of them, arguing over which one of them gets to marry him.

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The Moving Walls!
Story 7 4 pages crime
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An engineer builds a castle as a monument to man's greed that will collapse unless a beam of light shines directly upon a diamond that thieves attempt to steal in succession. Each thief must sit in place holding the diamond in the light until the next greedy man comes along otherwise the castle will collapse upon their heads.

Credits
Story Notes

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