Tales of the Unexpected #9 Values

Publisher: DC, 1957

About Tales of the Unexpected #9

Bernard Baily and George Roussos art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: The Man Who Ate Fire!

Pencils: Leonard Starr

Inks: Leonard Starr

STORY DETAILS

(8 Stories)

Title: The Amazing Cube!

Synopsis: Harvey Hacker meets a fellow gambler who has made his own dice from a meteor and with which he cannot lose. Following him, Hacker is able to snatch one when the other gambler crashes his car outside an atomic station. Planning to analyze the cube later, Hacker finds that it is apparently getting larger and larger through the night, nearly crushing him in his own house. But when scientists arrive from the atomic station, Hacker realizes it is he and his house that have been shrinking due to the combination of the radiation and meteor the cube was made of.

Pages: 6.000

Script: George Kashdan ?

Pencils: Bernard Baily

Inks: Bernard Baily

Reprints: World's Finest Comics (DC, 1941 series) #169 (September 1967)

Notes: Script credit from the index for the World's Finest Comics issue reprinting this story.

Title: The Carbon Copy Man

Synopsis: Frank Dorne has been faking teleportation with the help of his twin brother George, whose existence is unknown to the outside world since the brothers were brought up in separate orphanages. When a trick goes wrong and George is killed, Frank figures the gig is over until it appears that George has fulfilled his part of the act once again. Investigating, Frank is fatally wounded, but not before being meeting a third brother -- triplets all separated at birth -- who was trying to join in the scam.

Pages: 6.000

Pencils: George Papp

Inks: George Papp

Reprints: The Unexpected (DC, 1968 series) #135 (May 1972)

Title: The Day Nobody Died

Synopsis: Dr. Jim Morgan is worried about performing his first surgery, but he notices an odd man about who seems to be able to ensure no one dies. He tries to get him to his surgery the next day, but Death's vacation is over.

Pages: 6.000

Pencils: George Roussos

Inks: George Roussos

Reprints: House of Secrets (DC, 1956 series) #94 (October-November 1971)

Title: The Man Who Ate Fire

Synopsis: Tommy Briggs discovers that Edward Hermes is really an alien from Mercury and sent to Earth to prepare an invasion, but Tommy and his father alert the authorities and prevent it, with the help of the Statue of Liberty.

Pages: 6.000

Pencils: Leonard Starr

Inks: Leonard Starr

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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	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	1	1	1	3	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	16
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	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Total	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	1	1	1	3	2	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	17

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