Strange Tales #14

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CGC records 50 graded copies for Strange Tales #14 (1953). Population is the number recorded by this grading source, not the total print run or all surviving copies.

Horrible Herman

Herman Hooper, a brilliant scientist with a hideous and apelike face, falls in love with a beautiful waitress, but she rejects him because of his ugliness. Infuriated, he kills her and returns to his lab. Determined to make the whole world pay for rejecting him, he builds both a rocket ship and an atomic bomb. He plans to blow up the entire planet and escape into outer space as the only human left alive. However, when he launches the ship into the stratosphere and drops the bomb from it, it simply remains still in space. Herman realizes that it can't fall down to Earth because it's outside of the range of the planet's gravity. It can't explode unless it hits something, and the only thing which it can hit is Herman's own ship! The explosion of the ship creates a white light in the sky, and people all over the world see it and comment on how beautiful it is.

| StoryTitle2 = The Grinning Skulls! | Writer2_1 = N/A | Penciler2_1 = Werner Roth | Inker2_1 = Werner Roth | Colorist2_1 = N/A | Letterer2_1 = N/A | Editor2_1 = Stan Lee

| Appearing2 = **Featured Characters:** * Dr. Henrik Vandeever) **Supporting Characters:** * Vandeever's Expedition ** Professor Stone ** Numerous unnamed members **Antagonists:** * Buck Morgan) **Other Characters:** * Skipper Eddie **Races and Species:** * Humans) * Snakes) * Spiders * Ghosts * Birds **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Earth ** Melanesia *** Solomon Islands **** Barako **Items:** * Skull Totems

| Synopsis2 = When a man attempts to steal skulls from a totem pole, his head becomes the latest addition to the top of the pole.

| StoryTitle3 = You Only Die Once! | Writer3_1 = N/A | Penciler3_1 = N/A | Inker3_1 = N/A | Colorist3_1 = N/A | Letterer3_1 = Typeset | Editor3_1 = Stan Lee

| Appearing3 = **Featured Characters:** * Mr. Hestertone

**Antagonists:** * Unnamed Stranger **Other Characters:** * Hestertone's Nurse **Races and Species:** * Demons * Humans) **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Earth ** United States of America

| Synopsis3 = Mr. Hestertone signs a deal with a stranger that allows him to live forever, but the deal doesn't ensure his health or youth, thus Mr. Hestertone continues to live as a old man who's in constant pain with poor eyesight and hearing in a wheelchair.

| StoryTitle4 = The Experiment! | Writer4_1 = N/A | Penciler4_1 = George Tuska | Inker4_1 = George Tuska | Colorist4_1 = N/A | Letterer4_1 = N/A | Editor4_1 = Stan Lee

| Appearing4 = **Featured Characters:** * Professor Vonz Mind transfers into the body of a gorilla **Supporting Characters:** * Reporters ** Three unnamed reporters **Antagonists:** * Unnamed Gorilla Mind transfers into the body of Professor Vonz

**Races and Species:** * Humans) * Apes ** Gorillas * Cows **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Earth ** United States of America

| Synopsis4 = A scientist creates a process that he thinks will evolve a gorilla into a human being but it turns out to transpose their minds into each other's bodies.

| StoryTitle5 = The Golden Coffin | Writer5_1 = N/A | Penciler5_1 = Mike Sekowsky | Inker5_1 = Carmine Infantino | Colorist5_1 = N/A | Letterer5_1 = Morrie Kuramoto | Editor5_1 = Stan Lee

| Appearing5 = **Featured Characters:** * Unnamed Man **Supporting Characters:** * King Midas)

**Other Characters:** * Pluto) **Races and Species:** * Humans) * Ghosts **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Earthspace ** Earth *** Greece * Hades)

| Synopsis5 = A man summons the ghost of King Midas and demands his power to turn objects to gold. He thinks that he will be more clever than Midas and just get the power in his right hand so that he can eat with his left, but he gets in a vehicle accident and they amputate his left hand.

| StoryTitle6 = The Man Who Talked to Ghosts! | Writer6_1 = Stan Lee | Penciler6_1 = Carl Burgos | Inker6_1 = Carl Burgos | Colorist6_1 = N/A | Letterer6_1 = N/A | Editor6_1 = Stan Lee

| Appearing6 = **Featured Characters:** * Unnamed Man

**Antagonists:** * Unnamed Woman

**Races and Species:** * Ghosts * Humans) **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Earth ** United States of America *** Massachusetts) **** Beacon Street

| Synopsis6 = When a woman murders her husband for his money he returns as a ghost.

| Solicit = What is the curse of the Grinning Skulls? Plus, will you receive a visit from the spirit of King Midas?

| Notes = ===Publication Notes=== * The plot for "Horrible Herman" was recycled as "The Man Who Blew Up the Earth" in Tales to Astonish Vol 1 29 with art by Jack Kirby. * "You Only Die Once!" is reprinted as "The Man in Black!" in Journey Into Mystery Vol 1 20.

| Trivia = | Recommended = | Links =

Creative credits

Writers: Stan Lee, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, Stan Lee

Interior art: Joe Maneely, Werner Roth, N/A, George Tuska, Mike Sekowsky, Carl Burgos

Color: N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A

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