Strange Tales #5 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1952

About Strange Tales #5

Joe Maneely, Jim Mooney, and Syd Shores art. Pre-Code horror.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: The Room Without a Door!

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Notes: Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.

STORY DETAILS

(5 Stories)

Title: The Room Without a Door

Characters: Henry; Wilkins; Mattery; Albitra Narrse

Synopsis: A scientist rejects science as useless for discovering the secret of time travel and turns to black magic instead. Hearing of a woman related to a witch burned in 1692 living nearby, he spies on her and sees her summon the ghost of her ancestor. She confirms to the ghost that only she can travel through time by means of 'the room without a door.' The scientist gets the witch evicted and buys the house so that he can search for this room. He finds a small box with wallpaper made to resemble a room. He breaks the box open and finds himself transported back to 1692 tied to a burning stake.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Hank Chapman (signed)

Pencils: Joe Maneely (signed)

Inks: Joe Maneely (signed)

Reprints: Chamber of Chills (Marvel, 1972 series) #16 (May 1975)

Title: Little Man Who Was There

Characters: Dennis Ames

Synopsis: Dennis Ames keeps seeing a strange little man just before some disaster happens that he narrowly escapes, and he eventually comes to realize that he can't escape forever, because the little man is Death.

Pages: 5.000

Pencils: Jim Mooney

Inks: Jim Mooney

Reprints: Crypt of Shadows (Marvel, 1973 series) #16 (March 1975)

Notes: A similar plot to The Twilight Zone's "The Hitchhiker".

Title: The Trap

Characters: Hugh Kane; John Fenston; Alton Barnes

Synopsis: When a man's plane explodes he is thrown into the future to view his act of killing his new boss and then being executed.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Carl Wessler

Pencils: Manny Stallman

Inks: Manny Stallman; John Giunta ?

Reprints: Tomb of Darkness (Marvel, 1974 series) #14 (May 1975)

Notes: Script credit from the Masterworks reprint.

Title: My Brother Harry

Characters: Phil; Marge; Harry; Lola Richmond

Synopsis: A man's brother claims to be able to talk to his dead mother which annoys him, so he beats him. His wife is tired of his cruelty and poisons him. He thinks that he has survived the attempt to murder him, but when he arrives home to kill her and blame it on his brother, she ignores him and only his brother speaks to him as "I see all dead people, don't I, Philip?"

Pages: 5.000

Pencils: Tony DiPreta [as DiPreta] (signed)

Inks: Tony DiPreta [as DiPreta] (signed)

Reprints: Crypt of Shadows (Marvel, 1973 series) #17 (May 1975)

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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	2	0	1	1	4	5	4	4	7	7	6	4	2	4	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	55
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	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Total	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	2	4	5	4	4	8	7	6	4	2	5	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	58

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