Uncanny Tales, #29 Feb - Mar
Published: February 1955
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Only One to a Customer!
Credits
- Pencils: Carl Burgos
- Inks: Carl Burgos
- Colors: Stan Goldberg
Story Notes
Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.
Only One to a Customer
Storyline
After a pitchman abuses the hospitality of tiny alien visitors by attempting to sell them on the street for profit, they take him back to their planet where he is sold as a toy mechanical giant.
Credits
- Pencils: Sy Moskowitz
- Inks: Sy Moskowitz
Death Comes Calling
The Albatross!
Storyline
When a sailor kills an albatross, which represents good luck to the crew, the ship flounders with a dead radio until the men lash the sailor to the mast with the albatross tied around his neck as punishment. When the man dies, the ship's bad fortune clears, and they make their way back to port.
Credits
- Pencils: Pete Tumlinson
- Inks: Pete Tumlinson
Story Notes
Art credits from Tom Lammers. We previously suggested Joe Orlando, but the art spotter has since retracted that. Inspired by "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems (1798) (note by Tom Lammers).
The Barefoot Man
Storyline
A thief desires to acquire a pair of boots for the status that it will afford him, so he steals the first pair that he comes across, but they belong to a murderer and the authorities track him down by the prints his boots leave in the dirt.
Credits
- Pencils: Robert Q. Sale
- Inks: Robert Q. Sale
Deep Down
Storyline
A man is chased by a monster in a cave and so blocks him in with a large gold nugget. He wants the gold but cannot figure out how to remove it without the monster getting him. Every year for 50 years he has returned to the surface and recruited another to help him think of a way to acquire the gold without being attacked. The story ends when all 50 men leave the cave after deciding that there was no way and the gold wasn't worth the effort.
Story Notes
Art credits from Tom Lammers. We previously suggested Joe Orlando, though that art spotter has since retracted that.
Statement of ownership (1)
Story Notes
Statement Required by the Act of August 24, 1912. For 1 Oct 1954. Stan Lee, Editor; Martin Goodman, Managing Editor; Monroe Froehlich, Jr., Business Manager. (Sequence info by Tom Lammers)
Sarah
Storyline
A woman attempts to steal a sword that used to belong to Benedict Arnold from a farmer who dug it up on his property, but when she is confronted by a silent, grinning stranger whom she takes to be a rival collector, her shame gets the better of her and she confesses her theft to a passing police car rather than be turned over to the police by the man. After the police lead her away, the man is revealed to be a French tourist seeking directions who knows no English.
Credits
- Pencils: Joe Sinnott
- Inks: Joe Sinnott
- Letters: Ray Holloway (uncertain)