Uncanny Tales #29 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1955

About Uncanny Tales #29

First Code-approved issue. Carl Burgos cover.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: Only One to a Customer!

Pencils: Carl Burgos

Inks: Carl Burgos

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Notes: Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.

STORY DETAILS

(6 Stories)

Title: Only One to a Customer

Synopsis: After a pitchman abuses the hospitality of tiny alien visitors by attempting to sell them on the street for profit, they take him back to their planet where he is sold as a toy mechanical giant.

Pages: 5.000

Pencils: Seymour Moskowitz

Inks: Seymour Moskowitz

Reprints: Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #12 (August 1974)

Title: The Barefoot Man

Synopsis: A thief desires to acquire a pair of boots for the status that it will afford him, so he steals the first pair that he comes across, but they belong to a murderer and the authorities track him down by the prints his boots leave in the dirt.

Pages: 4.000

Pencils: Robert Sale

Inks: Robert Sale

Reprints: Giant-Size Werewolf (Marvel, 1974 series) #2 (October 1974)

Title: Sarah

Synopsis: A woman attempts to steal a sword that used to belong to Benedict Arnold from a farmer who dug it up on his property, but when she is confronted by a silent, grinning stranger whom she takes to be a rival collector, her shame gets the better of her and she confesses her theft to a passing police car rather than be turned over to the police by the man. After the police lead her away, the man is revealed to be a French tourist seeking directions who knows no English.

Pages: 5.000

Pencils: Joe Sinnott

Inks: Joe Sinnott

Reprints: Dead of Night (Marvel, 1973 series) #6 (October 1974)

Title: Deep Down

Synopsis: A man is chased by a monster in a cave and so blocks him in with a large gold nugget. He wants the gold but cannot figure out how to remove it without the monster getting him. Every year for 50 years he has returned to the surface and recruited another to help him think of a way to acquire the gold without being attacked. The story ends when all 50 men leave the cave after deciding that there was no way and the gold wasn't worth the effort.

Pages: 4.000

Pencils: Art Peddy

Inks: Art Peddy

Reprints: Dead of Night (Marvel, 1973 series) #5 (August 1974)

Notes: Art credits from Tom Lammers. We previously suggested Joe Orlando, though that art spotter has since retracted that.

Title: The Albatross

Synopsis: When a sailor kills an albatross, which represents good luck to the crew, the ship flounders with a dead radio until the men lash the sailor to the mast with the albatross tied around his neck as punishment. When the man dies, the ship's bad fortune clears, and they make their way back to port.

Pages: 5.000

Pencils: Pete Tumlinson

Inks: Pete Tumlinson

Reprints: Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #14 (October 1974)

Notes: Art credits from Tom Lammers. We previously suggested Joe Orlando, but the art spotter has since retracted that.

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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	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	3	1	1	4	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	17
Qualified	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	0	1
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	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	3	1	1	5	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	18

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