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Issue: Strange Tales #28
Publication Date: May 1954
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Issues: #28 of 168 Issues (244 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Atlas [black & white]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Chipiden Publishing Corp.
On Sale Date: 02/12/1954
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1954 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US and standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Format Notes:  
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Disclose Images1
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Original Artwork
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Come Into My Coffin!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #3 [Regular Edition] published June 2010
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]cover
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #3 [Regular Edition] published June 2010
as Strange Tales #28 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.
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Come Share My Coffin

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Chernak; Koslo; Laski; Tullski
Synopsis: A prison commandant learns through an informant that prisoners are escaping by being placed in coffins with the dead and later dug up. In order to get the names of the underground railroad, the commandant has his informant buried alive and promises that he will dig him up. After waiting in the coffin for some time, the informant strikes a match and screams in horror to see that the commandant is sharing the coffin with him. He realizes that the commandant must have been poisoned by a spy.
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #3 [Regular Edition] published June 2010
as Come Share My Coffin [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: E-202
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The Strange Man

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Jeffrey Mason
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #3 [Regular Edition] published June 2010
as The Strange Man [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: E-248
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With Knife in Hand!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Ken; Geraldine
Synopsis: A surgeon starts performing procedures for gangsters in order to make money for his wife, but she cheats on him with the very gangsters he's been helping. When one of the gangsters brings her in with a fatal bullet wound, and the doctor realizes it's his wife, he commits suicide and leaves her to die on the table, her pleas falling on deaf ears.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #3 [Regular Edition] published June 2010
as With Knife in Hand! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: E-134
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The Coward!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Benny; Strangler Maden
Synopsis: A gangster wants to avoid retribution at the hands of one of his pals so he resolves to kill himself but he hasn't got the nerve. When the man phones him and threatens to see him tomorrow night, the gangster constructs a time bomb and places it out of reach and handcuffs himself on the opposite side of the room without the handcuff keys. The radio announces a bulletin that the man he is afraid of has been killed in an auto accident.
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #3 [Regular Edition] published June 2010
as The Coward! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: E-336
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Voices

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Johnny Scott
Synopsis: A radio operator builds a set that can pick up broadcasts from the future and he resolves to get rich but he hears a bulletin announcing his death. Since he believes that he has heard the future, he decides he will cheat fate by suicide, but the broadcast was the result of his friends playing a practical joke on him.
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #3 [Regular Edition] published June 2010
as Voices [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: E-61
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The Slums

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Mike Warren; Gertie; Louie
Synopsis: A gangster commits suicide after he gives a panhandler a counterfeit bill and doesn't recognize her as the woman that he loves and has returned to the slums he grew up in to bring her out of them. She kills herself when she realizes the bill is fake.
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #3 [Regular Edition] published June 2010
as The Slums [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: E-140

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