Best Place to Sell Strange Tales #64

Publisher: Marvel, 1958

About Strange Tales #64

Joe Maneely cover. Al Williamson, Bob Powell, and Jim Mooney art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: The Strange Laboratory of Dr. Domino!!

Characters: Dr. Domino

Pencils: Joe Maneely (signed)

Inks: Joe Maneely (signed)

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Letters: Artie Simek

STORY DETAILS

(7 Stories)

Title: The Secret Laboratory of Dr. Domino

Characters: Dr. Domino

Synopsis: A conman hires some elderly women and young girls to enter a cabinet so that the old woman exit the back and the young girls come out the front to give the illusion that their youth has been restored. The old women in the audience throw money at the man who promises them their youth back. A sorceress appears who wants the treatment and he admits that he is a fraud. The sorceress ages him.

Pages: 4.000

Script: Carl Wessler ?

Pencils: Al Williamson

Inks: Al Williamson

Notes: Possible Wessler script per Nick Caputo from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015. Nick notes that inventory stories by Wessler may have been retitled. This story may have originally been titled "Step Inside my Machine"

Title: What Is Monium?

Characters: Burt Kane; Zorani

Synopsis: A man discovers a metal that when cut in two remains connected even though it appears that there is empty space between the parts. He starts a magic act where anything he tosses through one hoop pops out the other. An audience member discovers his secret and forces him into criminal acts. When the thief forces the man to construct a crate to hold the loot, he places the hoop inside the crate and breaks down the door he was imprisoned behind. He confronts the thief who attempts to escape through his hoop but finds himself inside the sealed crate on the way to the penitentiary.

Pages: 4.000

Script: Carl Wessler ?

Pencils: John Forte (signed)

Inks: John Forte (signed)

Notes: Possible Wessler script per Nick Caputo from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015. Nick notes that inventory stories by Wessler may have been retitled. This story may have originally been titled "The Empty Handcuffs"

Title: So This Is Mars!

Characters: Mr. Worth; Craig

Synopsis: A Martian filmmaker teleports a human filmmaker's Martian set to Mars and is disappointed to find human culture identical to Martian culture.

Pages: 3.000

Pencils: Bob Powell

Inks: Bob Powell ?

Title: The Silent City!

Characters: Gustave Tarnal

Synopsis: A man finds that he can rob helpless frozen people if he stops all of the clocks in town but he forgets about a sundial.

Pages: 4.000

Script: Carl Wessler ?

Pencils: Jim Mooney

Inks: Jim Mooney

Notes: Set in 1820. Possible Wessler script per Nick Caputo from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015. Nick notes that inventory stories by Wessler may have been retitled. This story may have originally been titled "When the Clock Stops"

Title: What On Earth?

Characters: Albert Feldgurt

Synopsis: One man thinks that humans cannot achieve space travel, and must allow nature to take them to other worlds like seeds. He is ignored, but when he becomes a spiritual leader spreading the message of love his theory is proved, as people disappear under the warming power of love.

Pages: 4.000

Pencils: Bob McCarty

Inks: Bob McCarty

Notes: Set in the twenty-first century.

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

Title: The Last Warning!

Characters: Don Reide; Alma Reide

Synopsis: A man saves his own life by sending a radio message through time that helps a younger version of himself escape a cave-in.

Pages: 4.000

Pencils: Vic Carrabotta (signed)

Inks: Vic Carrabotta (signed)

Notes: This story may have been completed some time before publication, since it is set in 1956.

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