Strange Tales #26 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1954

About Strange Tales #26

Skull cover by Carl Burgos. Gene Colan, Jack Katz, Vince Colletta, and Carmine Infantino art.

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COVER DETAILS

Pencils: Carl Burgos

Inks: Carl Burgos

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Letters: typeset

Notes: Burgos credit from atlastales.com and Michael J. Vassallo per credits in Atlas Era: Strange Tales #3. Saltarella previously credited Jack Katz. Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.

STORY DETAILS

(6 Stories)

Title: The Last Stop

Characters: Eddie; Mamie

Synopsis: When a gangster carries out a mob hit, he unintentionally catches his wife and children in the crossfire.

Pages: 4.000

Pencils: Gene Colan (signed)

Inks: Gene Colan (signed)

Title: Guinea Pig

Characters: Milo; Henkel; Hyzx; Zxh

Synopsis: When a scientist rockets his assistant into space, aliens capture the craft and inject the man with a serum that increases his strength and drives him mad. They send the rocket back the way it came and the assistant kills the scientist.

Pages: 4.000

Pencils: Jack Katz (signed)

Inks: Jack Katz (signed)

Title: The Busybody

Characters: Mrs. Miller; Jean Matsen; Fred Johnson; Harold Trimble; Carolyn Harris

Synopsis: A cruel landlady steals her tenant's mail to trick her into doing extra chores, but when she eats chocolates sent to the girl she finds out too late that they were poisoned by a jealous lover.

Pages: 2.000

Letters: typeset

Reprints: Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #64 (August 1958)

Title: A Grave Mistake

Characters: Blackie Barnes

Synopsis: A gangster makes a union out of gravediggers and when he calls a strike to force the relatives to bury their own dead, the corpses bury him.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Paul S. Newman

Pencils: Tony DiPreta [as T DiPreta] (signed)

Inks: Tony DiPreta [as T DiPreta] (signed)

Title: To the Stars!

Characters: Ron Landon; Flo Landon; Arthur Landon; Millie Landon; Lon Landon

Synopsis: In 1980 men build a colony on the moon.

Pages: 5.000

Pencils: Carmine Infantino

Inks: Jack Abel ?; Gil Kane ?

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: Gil Kane Inks credit from Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 Series) #3. Possible Abel inks also per Michael J. Vassallo: http://timely-atlas-comics.blogspot.com/2013/04/carmine-infantino-1925-2013-timely-years.html

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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	1	1	2	0	1	2	3	1	4	1	5	4	2	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	33
Qualified	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
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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Total	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	1	2	3	1	4	1	6	4	2	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	34

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