Best Place to Sell Strange Tales #60

Publisher: Marvel, 1957

About Strange Tales #60

Bill Everett cover. Al Williamson, George Woodbridge, and Jim Mooney art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: The Abyss!

Pencils: Bill Everett

Inks: Bill Everett

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Letters: typeset

Notes: Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.

STORY DETAILS

(7 Stories)

Title: With Just One Stroke

Characters: John Durston

Synopsis: A criminal discovers a magic pen, which makes anything that he writes come true. It runs dry when he is trying to steal jewels, leaving him trapped in a vault to die.

Pages: 4.000

Pencils: John Forte (signed)

Inks: John Forte (signed)

Title: Rude Awakening!

Characters: Parks; Davis; Mason

Synopsis: An embezzler dreams he will be caught, and kills the man he dreams responsible. The murder is another dream, as he is jailed pending sentence for embezzlement. He wakes to find himself being sentenced for murder, instead of embezzlement.

Pages: 4.000

Pencils: George Woodbridge

Inks: George Woodbridge

Title: The Final Shot!

Characters: Mike Dillon; Frank Rochelle; Dan Gavin; Eric Dixon; Louis Ruppert; Grogan

Synopsis: A convict released from prison attempts to get revenge on those responsible for placing him there. He shoots them with a chemical compound that makes them susceptible to suggestion in order to force them to commit crimes. His plan fails when he misses the detective who arrested him and the man just plays along to find out what his scheme is.

Pages: 4.000

Script: Carl Wessler

Pencils: Robert Q. Sale (signed)

Inks: Robert Q. Sale (signed)

Notes: Wessler credit per biblio info published in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 26, No. 4, April 2015.

Title: Child's Play!

Characters: Rod Manning; Dr. Lang; Charlie Manning; Alice Manning

Synopsis: A rich man gets forces a scientist to give him a robot as a toy for his son despite his warnings. It tries to burn the house down, and the man apologizes to the scientist for not listening.

Pages: 4.000

Pencils: Christopher Rule ?; Ed Winiarski

Inks: Christopher Rule

Notes: Inks and some or all pencils attributed to Christopher Rule identified by Dr. Michael Vassallo. According to From the Tomb Magazine #10, Ed Winiarski may have contributed pencils. Art originally incorrectly attributed to "J. Makowski" by Jim Vadaboncoeur, Jr. based on a comparison with a Makowski-pencilled story later found to be inked by Rule.

Title: Crackpot Chemist

Characters: Jasper McReedy; Stella McReedy; Linda McReedy; Tom Logan; Bob Webster

Synopsis: A dedicated chemist invents a formula to give people a healthy weight, and his daughter accidentally tests it on the neighbors.

Pages: 2.000

Letters: typeset

Notes: Text story with illustration.

Title: The Puppet Man

Characters: Mathews

Synopsis: An amnesiac confesses to a murder he doesn't remember, but applause reminds him that he is only an actor lost in his role.

Pages: 3.000

Pencils: Dan Loprino (signed)

Inks: Dan Loprino (signed)

Letters: Artie Simek

Title: The Abyss!

Characters: Leos; Karol; Maria

Synopsis: Political refugees seeking to flee tyranny are assisted by supernatural beings, and realize once they reach freedom that they crossed over Mt. Olympus.

Pages: 4.000

Pencils: Jim Mooney

Inks: Jim Mooney

Notes: The characters in this story could conceivably have been fleeing from Communist Yugoslavia or Bulgaria, but this would mean that their pursuers were able to follow quite far into Greece.

Data Courtesy of Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license

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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	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	2	3	2	3	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	18
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	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
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	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	2	3	2	3	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	19

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