Price history & market evidence
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| Grade | Amount | Evidence | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | $257.79 | PANEL_PROFITS · grade_4_0_valueguide | 1952-08-01 |
| 6.0 | $420.99 | PANEL_PROFITS · grade_6_0_valueguide | 1952-08-01 |
| 8.0 | $900.00 | PANEL_PROFITS · grade_8_0_valueguide | 1952-08-01 |
| 9.2 | $1,170.00 | PANEL_PROFITS · grade_9_2_valueguide | 1952-08-01 |
| RAW | $153.13 | PANEL_PROFITS · ungraded_valueguide | 1952-08-01 |
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Graded population
CGC records 31 graded copies for Uncanny Tales #2 (1952). Population is the number recorded by this grading source, not the total print run or all surviving copies.
Skin-Deep
A man is attempting to do a face transplant from a corpse but his interfering wife is always getting underfoot by trying to help him in his endeavors. When she burns the skin that he has harvested off the corpse in her attempt at cleaning up around the place, he fixes her wagon by transplanting the corpse's head onto her shoulder.
| StoryTitle2 = The Vault of Doom | 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:** * Tom Braddock) **Supporting Characters:** * Black Bart Braddock) * Mathias Braddock)
**Other Characters:** * Mr. Henderson (Lawyer) * Mr. Braddock (Tom's Father) * Mr. Watson * Black Bart's Son * Black Bart's Son's Son **Races and Species:** * Humans) (flashback) * Rats * Ghosts **Realities:** * Earth-616 (flashback) **Locations:** * Earth (flashback) ** North America (flashback) *** United States of America (flashback) ** England, United Kingdom, Europe
**Events:** * American Revolutionary War
| Synopsis2 = Tom Braddock inherits a mansion from his late uncle. While investigating the mansion he learns that it's cursed from the town people. That his ancestor Black Bart Braddock was a pirate who built the mansion and hid his gold there. Tom decided to look for the gold and found a hidden door while doing so in the kitchen. Going down the long staircase he made it to another door but upon entering it closed behind him. In the dark he heard the voice of his ancestor Black Bart and his uncle Mathias welcoming him to the family curse and that they would be talking for a while after he dies and also becomes a ghost.
| StoryTitle3 = The Monster Maker! | Writer3_1 = N/A | Penciler3_1 = Bill Everett | Inker3_1 = Bill Everett | Colorist3_1 = N/A | Letterer3_1 = N/A | Editor3_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing3 =
| Synopsis3 = A statue maker falls in love with one of his statutes and finds a black magic spell that transmutes him into stone.
| StoryTitle4 = The Man Who Believed in Ghosts | Writer4_1 = N/A | Penciler4_1 = Paul Reinman | Inker4_1 = Paul Reinman | Colorist4_1 = N/A | Letterer4_1 = N/A | Editor4_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing4 =
| Synopsis4 = A man who lives next to a cemetery is not frighted of the ghosts which show up every night until he meets his own.
| StoryTitle5 = Skeleton in the Closet | Writer5_1 = N/A | Penciler5_1 = Manny Stallman | Inker5_1 = Manny Stallman | Colorist5_1 = N/A | Letterer5_1 = N/A | Editor5_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing5 =
**Antagonists:** * Van Dess Family
| Synopsis5 = A rich man marries into a family of freaks.
| StoryTitle6 = The Man Who Melted | Writer6_1 = Stan Lee | Penciler6_1 = Ed Smalle | Inker6_1 = Ed Smalle | Colorist6_1 = | Letterer6_1 = | Editor6_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing6 = **Featured Characters:** * Wolfgang Nobbledink) **Supporting Characters:** * Wolfgang’s Wife
| Synopsis6 = A forgetful inventor shoots his wife for testing his serum that will allow him to melt away and commit the perfect crime, but he forgets to devise a way to return himself to normal.
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Creative credits
Writers: Hank Chapman, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, Stan Lee
Interior art: Fred Kida, N/A, Bill Everett, Paul Reinman, Manny Stallman, Ed Smalle
Color: N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A
Source records & attribution
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GCD: 9878
PANEL PROFITS: 2451836