Alarming Tales #1 Values

Publisher: Harvey, 1957

About Alarming Tales #1

Joe Simon and Jack Kirby cover and art. Kamandi prototype story by Kirby.

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COVER DETAILS

Characters: Tommy Donnegan

Pencils: Jack Kirby; Joe Simon (see notes)

Inks: Joe Simon

Letters: typeset

Notes: Cover is a composite with main figure drawn by Joe Simon and background figures by Kirby, per Harry Medryk: http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/4414 Previous indexer credited George Rousous with inking.

STORY DETAILS

(7 Stories)

Title: The Cadmus Seed!

Characters: Professor Horace Googer

Synopsis: Googer has created plant men.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Jack Kirby

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Jack Kirby

Letters: Howard Ferguson

Notes: Kirby inks per Harry Mendryk. Writer credits this issue from Martin O'Hearn.

Title: Logan's Next Life!

Characters: Tom Conway; Mary Conway; Rex Logan

Synopsis: Tom thinks his friend Rex has been reincarnated as a dog.

Pages: 2.000

Script: Jack Kirby

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Joe Simon

Letters: Howard Ferguson

Reprints: Unearthly Spectaculars (Harvey, 1965 series) #3 (March 1967)

Notes: Page count corrected by Chris Dosevski via the GCD Errors list, December 2008. Simon inks per Harry Mendryk.

Title: The Fourth Dimension is a Many Splattered Thing!

Characters: Eddie Michaels; Max Hall

Synopsis: Eddie chases a burgler into the fourth dimension.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Jack Kirby

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Jack Kirby

Letters: Howard Ferguson

Notes: Kirby inks info per Harry Mendryk.

Title: The Last Enemy!

Characters: Hammond Drake; Rat leader; The General (a bulldog)

Synopsis: Drake travels to 2514 AD. He finds dead tigers in a field. A rat tells him that all humans were killed in an atomic war and that animals inherited the earth. Drake is knocked out and back at their lair they demand the secret of making atom bombs. Suddenly the lair is attacked knocking Drake out. He wakes up in a bed with a dog, fox and bear at his side. The General enters the room and tells him that only rats want to continue fighting, everyone else wants peace. Drake gives him the secret of atomic bombs. Drake travels back to the present hoping that dogs will be better than rats.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Jack Kirby

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Jack Kirby

Letters: Howard Ferguson

Notes: In some ways, this story anticipates Kirby's later Kamandi strip, as it features a future world populated by talking dogs and rats. Kirby inks per Harry Mendryk.

Title: Donnegan's Daffy Chair

Characters: Timothy Donnegan; Sam; Frank

Synopsis: Donnegan sits in an inventor's fancy chair and launches it.

Pages: 4.000

Script: Jack Kirby

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Jack Kirby

Letters: Howard Ferguson

Notes: Kirby inks per Harry Mendryk.

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	NG	PG	CVR	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	3	2	1	0	1	0	2	0	2	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	18
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
CGCxJSA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Total	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	3	3	1	0	1	0	3	0	2	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	21

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