Strange Tales #66 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1958

About Strange Tales #66

Joe Maneely cover. Werner Roth and Reed Crandall art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: The Ghost Came C.O.D.!

Characters: Charlie Rompel

Pencils: Joe Maneely (signed)

Inks: Joe Maneely (signed)

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Letters: Artie Simek

STORY DETAILS

(7 Stories)

Title: The Ghost Came C.O.D.

Characters: Eban Goad; Charles Rompel

Synopsis: A schemer comes up with the idea to send off invoices to the recently deceased figuring grieving widows will just pay the invoice to take care of the matter quickly. The fraud works until one of the dead comes back to his shop and reveals himself as a Martian living within the body of a human. The Martian silences the schemer.

Pages: 4.000

Pencils: Reed Crandall

Inks: Reed Crandall

Notes: A caption box saying this story is from "the Editor's File of Classic Strange Tales", possibly indicating a reprint from an unknown source.

Title: The Replacement!

Characters: Jack Hartley; Harry Groves; Mrs. Groves

Synopsis: A criminal steals a dying man's jacket and when he finds an airline ticket in the pocket he attempts to use the plane to escape the police. When he boards the plane it takes off and he is surprised to see that there are no other passengers or even a pilot. He panics and tries to leave the plane. The police find his body in a field as though he had fallen from a great height. Since the criminal had taken Death's plane ticket meant for him, the dying man recovers.

Pages: 4.000

Pencils: Alphonso Greene (signed)

Inks: Alphonso Greene (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

Notes: Job number corrected from M-550.

Title: The Voice of Fido!

Characters: Hank Walton; Ned Walton; Fido

Synopsis: A ventriloquist uses a dog in his act in place of a dummy. When a fire breaks out the dog leads people out by speaking and the ventriloquist gets credit for it, but the ventriloquist denies speaking.

Pages: 3.000

Pencils: Werner Roth

Inks: Werner Roth

Title: It Waits Under the Sea!

Characters: Felix Bradin; Harry Spahn

Synopsis: A man plans to traverse the globe completely underwater, but when he sees a tunnel he becomes curious and directs the submarine into it. He becomes trapped in a holding tank for Marineland and won't be found until the exhibit is next opened.

Pages: 4.000

Pencils: Al Eadeh (signed)

Inks: Al Eadeh (signed)

Title: The Eerie Experiment!

Characters: Ben Darrow; Howie Barnes; Phil Walker; Mark Nichols; The Friends Club [Peter Ivanov; Barney Graham; John Barr [Joe Berrie]; Henry Adamo [Herbert Franklin]; Wallace]

Synopsis: Two men in 1977 using a radio attempt to warn a government agent breaking up a communist spy ring in the past.

Pages: 4.000

Pencils: Robert Q. Sale (signed)

Inks: Robert Q. Sale (signed)

Letters: Ben Oda

Title: Time Machine

Synopsis: A man's fascination with history leads him to build a time machine and travel to the past, but when he sees the dangers of time travel he destroys the machine and blueprints.

Pages: 2.000

Letters: typeset

Notes: Text story with illustration. Narrated in the first person.

Title: He Wore a Black Beard

Characters: Wally Rogers; Ralph Blaine

Synopsis: A man living with an inventor is surprised by a visitor who claims to be from the future. The man resents the inventor and comes up with a scheme to frame him with the time traveler's help, but after he steals money and gives it to him, he realizes the time traveler is the future self of the inventor he lives with and the man is not going to frame himself.

Pages: 4.000

Pencils: Ed Winiarski (signed)

Inks: Ed Winiarski (signed)

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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	2	3	2	2	2	6	5	4	3	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	32
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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	3	2	2	2	6	5	4	3	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	32

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