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Strange Tales , #66

Published: December 1958

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Issue Contents:
The Ghost Came C.O.D.!
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The Ghost Came C.O.D.
Storyline

A schemer comes up with the idea to send off invoices to the recently deceased figuring grieving widows will just pay the invoice to take care of the matter quickly. The fraud works until one of the dead comes back to his shop and reveals himself as a Martian living within the body of a human. The Martian silences the schemer.

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Story Notes

A caption box saying this story is from "the Editor's File of Classic Strange Tales", possibly indicating a reprint from an unknown source. Letters: Kuramoto worked as a letterer, and in production, for Atlas Comics until the implosion of 1957.

The Replacement!
Storyline

A criminal steals a dying man's jacket and when he finds an airline ticket in the pocket he attempts to use the plane to escape the police. When he boards the plane it takes off and he is surprised to see that there are no other passengers or even a pilot. He panics and tries to leave the plane. The police find his body in a field as though he had fallen from a great height. Since the criminal had taken Death's plane ticket meant for him, the dying man recovers.

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Story Notes

Job number corrected from M-550.

The Voice of Fido!
Storyline

A ventriloquist uses a dog in his act in place of a dummy. When a fire breaks out the dog leads people out by speaking and the ventriloquist gets credit for it, but the ventriloquist denies speaking.

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Story Notes

Letters: Letterese was on staff at Atlas until 1957, doing production and lettering. The letter forms in this story (especially the broad D's) resemble his credited work from the 1960s (e.g. Inferior Five #1). This was probably a 1957 inventory story (production code M-323) like the opening story of this issue (M-283).

It Waits under the Sea!
Storyline

A man plans to traverse the globe completely underwater, but when he sees a tunnel he becomes curious and directs the submarine into it. He becomes trapped in a holding tank for Marineland and won't be found until the exhibit is next opened.

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Story Notes

Letterer identification by Hayden.

The Eerie Experiment!
Storyline

Two men in 1977 using a radio attempt to warn a government agent breaking up a communist spy ring in the past.

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Story Notes

Wessler script per biblio published in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 31, No. 7, July 2020.

Time Machine
Storyline

A man's fascination with history leads him to build a time machine and travel to the past, but when he sees the dangers of time travel he destroys the machine and blueprints.

Story Notes

Text story with illustration. Narrated in the first person.

He Wore a Black Beard
Storyline

A man living with an inventor is surprised by a visitor who claims to be from the future. The man resents the inventor and comes up with a scheme to frame him with the time traveler's help, but after he steals money and gives it to him, he realizes the time traveler is the future self of the inventor he lives with and the man is not going to frame himself.

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Story Notes

Letters: Letterese's characteristic wide D's (compare Inferior Five #1) are in evidence.