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Issue: Strange Tales #4
Publication Date: December 1951
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Issues: #4 of 168 Issues (244 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Atlas [black & white]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Chipiden Publishing Corp.
On Sale Date: 08/08/1951
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1951 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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Terror in the Morgue!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2007
as [Strange Tales #4] Terror in the Morgue! [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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The Evil Eye

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Lyle Chambers; Mears
Synopsis: Chambers summons a massive eye which kills anyone it looks at. He uses the eye to spread chaos but the eye resents him for summoning him to Earth and finally kills Chambers.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2007
as The Evil Eye [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: 8885
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Dial...City Morgue!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Ted; Ellie Bennet
Synopsis: Ted calls Jeff on his new phone, but for some reason reaches city morgue instead of Jeff. The call works on the next attempt, but when he goes to see Jeff, Jeff is hit by a car and killed. Ted realizes his phone can predict deaths, but when he calls Ellie and reaches city morgue he tries to alter destiny by saving her. Running to a carnival ground where Ellie is, Ted is killed when lightning strikes a merry-go-round, sending debris which strikes him down.
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2007
as Dial...City Morgue! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: 8812
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Sculpture of Death

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Craig North; Joseph Green
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2007
as Sculpture of Death [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: 9000
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It!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Bill Carter; Jenny Carter
Synopsis: Bill and Jenny adopt a baby but it soon runs Jenny ragged. Bill finds his coffee poisoned and they both nearly die in a mysterious fire, yet the baby somehow got out of the house before the blaze erupted. After Jenny tripped on the baby's teddy and fell to her death, Bill suspected the baby was responsible. Taking Bill's gun, the baby confronts Bill and reveals its true nature: it's an alien in disguise, killing from safety thanks to its innocent appearance. The baby kills Bill and is later adopted by another couple.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Visionaries: John Romita Sr. #[nn] published January 2005
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2007
as It! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: 9118
Disclose Notes: swipe of Ray Bradbury's "The Small Assassin". In Alter-Ego v3 #9, Romita states that this is both the first Atlas job done under his name (earlier were ghosted pencils for Louis Zakarin) and his first ever professional inking.
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The Man on the Beach!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Robert Gordon; Zord; Jim
Synopsis: Robert is brought to the year 7000 to help save humanity from the Greenies. Zord shrinks the Earth to microscopic size and entrusts everything to Robert. Robert returns to his own time and accidentally drops the shrunken Earth on the beach. Reality begins to dissolve.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2007
as The Man on the Beach! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: 9064

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