Uncanny Tales #12 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1953

About Uncanny Tales #12

Sol Brodsky cover. Bill Everett, Paul Reinman, and Bob Powell art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: Bertha Gets Buried

Pencils: Carl Burgos ?

Inks: Carl Burgos ?

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Notes: Pencils and inks credits from Chris Brown (confirmed by Doc Vassallo and Dave O'Dell) on 2 January 2005; previously credited as Sam Kweskin. Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.

STORY DETAILS

(6 Stories)

Title: The New Tenants

Synopsis: A man works for a miser who cheats people on real estate deals until he gets so fed up with his boss selling run down dumps to kindly old folks that he kills him and shores up the floor support in the cellar with the man's body.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Bill Everett ?

Pencils: Bill Everett (signed)

Inks: Bill Everett (signed)

Letters: Bill Everett

Reprints: Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #9 (February 1974)

Title: Dead End

Synopsis: A man travels back in time and kills his younger self.

Pages: 4.000

Script: Burt Frohman

Pencils: Tom Gill

Inks: Tom Gill

Reprints: Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #2 (February 1974)

Notes: script credit taken from Frohman's copy. Script dated June 1953.

Title: Bertha Gets Buried

Synopsis: A man assumes his wife is cheating, kills her, and buries her in the cellar. It turns out that the man he thought she was cheating with is a handyman she hired to clean out the cellar like her husband asked her to. He is digging up the floor to lay down cement when he uncovers her body.

Pages: 4.000

Pencils: Sam Kweskin (signed)

Inks: Sam Kweskin (signed)

Reprints: Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #10 (April 1974)

Title: The Man from Outer Space

Synopsis: A woman on a farm who is always complaining that she doesn't have six hands to do all the work that she is asked to gets her wish when an alien crash lands in the barn with the power to grow new limbs.

Pages: 5.000

Pencils: Bob Powell

Inks: Bob Powell

Reprints: Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #3 (April 1974)

Title: Devil's Island

Synopsis: A man takes his unfaithful lover in the dark to the largest pearl she has ever seen. It's still inside the giant clam which closes on her.

Pages: 5.000

Pencils: Paul Reinman

Inks: Paul Reinman

Reprints: Crypt of Shadows (Marvel, 1973 series) #10 (May 1974)

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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	1	2	3	5	1	0	1	1	2	1	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	21
Qualified	0	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	1
Signature Series	0	0	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	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	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	4	6	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	26

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