Strange Tales #45 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1956

About Strange Tales #45

Bill Everett cover. Bernie Krigstein and Jack Kamen art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: Land of Vanishing Men!

Pencils: Bill Everett (signed)

Inks: Bill Everett (signed)

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Letters: typeset

Notes: Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.

STORY DETAILS

(7 Stories)

Title: Land of Vanishing Men

Characters: Ted Benson; Joe Ausler; Larry Wiley

Synopsis: Three men who dream of the adventure of knights join a mirage in the desert set during the Crusades.

Pages: 4.000

Script: Carl Wessler

Pencils: Joe Sinnott (signed)

Inks: Joe Sinnott (signed)

Notes: Writer credit from foreword by Michael J. Vassallo from Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #5 (Marvel, 2007 Series).

Title: The Night People

Characters: Felix Hunter

Synopsis: A cowardly boy is ashamed when space aliens interrogate him for when would be the best time to invade and he is too frightened to even lie to them. They let him go so he can check the paper for the best time to invade and he regrets his cowardice. When he sees tomorrow is the fourth of July he tells the aliens to invade after nightfall and the fireworks display frightens them off.

Pages: 4.000

Script: Carl Wessler

Pencils: Bob Forgione (signed)

Inks: Jack Abel (signed)

Notes: Writer credit from foreword by Michael J. Vassallo from Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #5 (Marvel, 2007 Series).

Title: The Eyes of Mr. Moody!

Characters: Orville Moody

Synopsis: A timid hypnotist hypnotizes himself hoping to give himself the daring to succeed in business, but after coming out of his trance, he realizes that the wealth he had thought he accumulated over the course of one year was all in his mind.

Pages: 3.000

Script: Carl Wessler

Pencils: Jack Keller [as J. K.] (signed)

Inks: Jack Keller [as J. K.] (signed)

Notes: Writer credit from foreword by Michael J. Vassallo from Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #5 (Marvel, 2007 Series).

Title: The Strange Exchange!

Characters: Anders

Synopsis: An employee of the state department who wishes for an out of the way assignment gets his wish when he becomes the envoy for the Martian embassy.

Pages: 4.000

Pencils: Ed Winiarski

Inks: Ed Winiarski

Title: The Man Who Went Back!

Characters: Jerry Mason

Synopsis: A man who can experience the past in his imagination goes back to the creation.

Pages: 4.000

Script: Carl Wessler ?

Pencils: Bernie Krigstein (signed)

Inks: Bernie Krigstein (signed)

Notes: Possible Wessler credit per Robin Snyder.

Title: Sorry, Wrong Planet

Characters: Jeff Miller

Synopsis: An alien with orders to colonize Earth lands and asks the first person he sees if he is on Earth. The man sarcastically answers him "No, it's Mars." The alien disappears and scientists detect through telescopes the colonization activity on Mars, which the alien has mistaken for Earth.

Pages: 4.000

Pencils: Bernard Baily

Inks: Joe Sinnott ?

Letters: Artie Simek

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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	1	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	3	2	0	2	3	1	2	1	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	25
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	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Restored	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	0	1
Total	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	3	3	0	2	3	1	2	2	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	27

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