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| Grade | Amount | Evidence | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | $325.00 | PANEL_PROFITS · grade_4_0_valueguide | 1951-08-01 |
| 6.0 | $718.20 | PANEL_PROFITS · grade_6_0_valueguide | 1951-08-01 |
| RAW | $556.04 | PANEL_PROFITS · ungraded_valueguide | 1951-08-01 |
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Graded population
CGC records 47 graded copies for Strange Tales #2 (1951). Population is the number recorded by this grading source, not the total print run or all surviving copies.
The Egg!
Aliens send eggs which disgorge a toxic substance when opened.
| StoryTitle2 = Fear is your Fortune | Writer2_1 = N/A | Penciler2_1 = N/A | Inker2_1 = N/A | Colorist2_1 = N/A | Letterer2_1 = Typeset | Editor2_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing2 = **Featured Characters:** * Johnny Gant) **Supporting Characters:** * Plainville Police Department) ** Bill ** Officer O'Leary **Antagonists:** * Unnamed Fortune Teller **Other Characters:** * Unnamed Pitchman * Lulu (Hula Dancer) * Unnamed Weight Guesser **Races and Species:** * Spiders * Flies * Humans) **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Earth ** United States of America *** Plainville **** Unidentified Carnival
| Synopsis2 = A carnival had arrived in Plainville, but Johnny Gant had always avoided them. However, his friend Bill had told him to meet him there. He stopped by a fortune teller to know what the outcome of his later discussion with Bill would be.
He believed that fortunetelling was fake, but it still fascinated him. The fortune teller asked for his hand, but when she took it, he expressed that he did not want his fortune told anymore. She took the cloth from the crystal ball and claimed that she had seen something horrible.
They were interrupted when a seemingly drunk man wandered inside and asked for his fortune to be told, but Johnny threw him out. Afterwards, the fortune teller told Johnny that he was going to murder Bill and kill himself by drowning out of remorse, afterwards.
Suddenly, Bill appeared and the "drunk man" was actually a police officer named O'Leary who declared that they could arrest the fortune teller, as she had a marked roll of money in her blouse. Johnny was still surprised how the fortune teller knew that he had wanted to kill Bill.
| StoryTitle3 = Trapped in the Tomb! | Writer3_1 = N/A | Penciler3_1 = Norman Steinberg | Inker3_1 = Norman Steinberg | Colorist3_1 = N/A | Letterer3_1 = N/A | Editor3_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing3 = **Featured Characters:** * George Orris) **Supporting Characters:** * Professor Hiram Lapham) **Antagonists:** * Helen Orris) **Other Characters:** * Two unnamed mermaids * George's Boss * Lemo Chemical) **Races and Species:** * Humans) * Mice * Minks * Mermaids * Ermine * Skunks **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Earth ** North America *** United States of America **** Orris Residence *** Unidentified Mountain *** Unidentified Island **Items:** * Hiram Lapham's Transmigration box
| Synopsis3 = A scientist invents a box which can teleport a person's spirit and loans it to a friend. The friend decides to kill his wife and use the box's ability to establish an alibi of being somewhere else at the moment of the crime, but his wife gets the idea first.
| StoryTitle4 = The Pin! | Writer4_1 = N/A | Penciler4_1 = Russ Heath | Inker4_1 = Russ Heath | Colorist4_1 = N/A | Letterer4_1 = N/A | Editor4_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing4 = **Featured Characters:** * Walter Ambrose)
**Antagonists:** * Professor "Buster" Lungham **Other Characters:** * Unnamed Teacher * Daly and Daly * Unnamed Principal * Unnamed Elderly Man **Races and Species:** * Humans) * Birds **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Earth ** United States of America **Items:** * Age-youth Exchange Pin
| Synopsis4 = A scientist invents a serum which reduces age without affecting the mind. He finds himself an infant but he develops a transfer formula which he places in a pin in order to stick someone with the same blood type and steal their years.
| StoryTitle5 = The Island of Madness | Writer5_1 = N/A | Penciler5_1 = Ed Moore | Inker5_1 = Ed Moore | Colorist5_1 = N/A | Letterer5_1 = N/A | Editor5_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing5 = **Featured Characters:** * Jim **Supporting Characters:** * Fred **Antagonists:** * Alice **Other Characters:** * Lucretio de Velli) **Races and Species:** * Humans) * Demons * Ghosts **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Earth ** Unidentified Island **Items:** * Campond's Famous Legends
| Synopsis5 = Two men and a woman find themselves stranded on an island that is supposed to be inhabited by a demon and one man is killed but it turns out that the woman is the monster.
| Solicit = An alien race unleashes some strange superweapons on Earth in the form of eggs...not only do they reek to high heaven, when broken they release a toxic gas!
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Creative credits
Writers: N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A
Interior art: Marcus Morris, N/A, Norman Steinberg, Russ Heath, Ed Moore
Color: N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A
Source records & attribution
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GCD: 9078
PANEL PROFITS: 2388901