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Issue: Uncanny Tales #49
Publication Date: November 1956
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Issues: #49 of 56 Issues (57 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Atlas [black & white]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Prime Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 1956
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Four Frightened People!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMystic #22 published January 1962
as Four Frightened People! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Man with No Face!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: 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.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K-719
Disclose Notes: Wessler script from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
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Four Frightened People

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: The great lord Han had given a command!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagZombie #3 published January 1961
as Four Frightened People [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMystic #22 published January 1962
as Four Frightened People [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K-766
Disclose Notes: "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" without Santa Claus. Wessler script from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
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I Follow Him!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: 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.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K-750
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The Lifeless One!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: 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.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K-752
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Doubting Thomas

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Character(s): Tommy; Kitty Blake; Old King Cole
Synopsis: A man with no imagination is invited to a costume party by his girlfriend, but stumbles across real fairy-tale folk instead.
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From Content Item: FlagJourney into Unknown Worlds #38 published October 1955
was Masquerade [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "Doubting Thomas"
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: G-750
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The Man in the Satellite

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A convict who hides in a satellite stays in orbit for fifty years.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: K-703
Disclose 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)
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Footprints to Nowhere!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: 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.
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K-807

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