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| Grade | Amount | Evidence | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | $152.42 | PANEL_PROFITS · grade_4_0_valueguide | 1953-02-01 |
| 6.0 | $552.54 | PANEL_PROFITS · grade_6_0_valueguide | 1953-02-01 |
| RAW | $121.38 | PANEL_PROFITS · ungraded_valueguide | 1953-02-01 |
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Graded population
CGC records 18 graded copies for Uncanny Tales #5 (1953). Population is the number recorded by this grading source, not the total print run or all surviving copies.
Fear
A psychologist has a dud bomb dropped over Moscow which so terrifies the populace wondering which type of terrible weapon that it could be the Soviet Premier commits suicide and the West wins the cold war.
| StoryTitle2 = The Frame! | Writer2_1 = N/A | Penciler2_1 = Gene Colan | Inker2_1 = Gene Colan | Colorist2_1 = N/A | Letterer2_1 = Typeset | Editor2_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing2 = **Featured Characters:** * Elliot Lesser) **Supporting Characters:** * Gregory Meredith) **Antagonists:** * Timothy Lesser) **Other Characters:** * Unnamed Ticket Agent * Unidentified Police Department ** Unnamed Police Chief ** Unnamed Detective * Unnamed Taxi Driver * Unnamed Landlady **Races and Species:** * Humans) * Ghosts **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Earth ** United States of America
| Synopsis2 = Elliot Lesser is in trouble with the law after many eye witnesses spotted him doing various crimes. Insistent on his innocence he decides to look into it with his first theory being that of his twin brother who died. Having not visited the funeral to verify the death Elliot believes it's possible that his brother Timothy is alive. Traveling to the town over he investigates his brother's grave only to be accosted by the ghost of his brother.
The police later find Elliot who is rambling madly about the ghost of his brother framing him.
| StoryTitle3 = I Can't Stop Killing | Writer3_1 = Carl Wessler | Penciler3_1 = Sol Brodsky | Inker3_1 = Sol Brodsky | Colorist3_1 = N/A | Letterer3_1 = N/A | Editor3_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing3 = **Featured Characters:** * Fargo **Supporting Characters:** * Jake
| Synopsis3 = Fargo drinks from poisoned water after shooting Jake for refusing to make him his mining partner.
| StoryTitle4 = Plague! | Writer4_1 = Paul S. Newman | Penciler4_1 = Jim Mooney | Inker4_1 = Jim Mooney | Colorist4_1 = N/A | Letterer4_1 = N/A | Editor4_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing4 = **Featured Characters:** * Jarick
| Synopsis4 = Jarick is a department store janitor who falls in love with a wax figure. When plague breaks out the store closes and Jarick flees into the countryside carrying the figure but stumbles into a pit. Two men see Jarick in the pit but refuse to help him out as he now shows signs of the plague. He asks them to leave the figure with him but they desire the jewelry it is wearing and haul it out of the pit with a rope. Jarick places a curse upon them but they consider him mad. When they remove the figure's jewelry they are surprised that it is showing signs of the plague as well. Later the death wagon picks up the figure assuming it to be a corpse given a waxy appearance by the plague and return it to the pit Jarick's body lies in.
| StoryTitle5 = The Both of Me! | Writer5_1 = Carl Wessler | Penciler5_1 = Vernon Henkel | Inker5_1 = Vernon Henkel | Colorist5_1 = N/A | Letterer5_1 = N/A | Editor5_1 = Stan Lee
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| Synopsis5 = Harry meets Walt who looks just like him. Walt is a drunk but Harry thinks that he can use Walt to establish an alibi at a bar while he pulls jobs. It works a couple times but Walt is an angry drunk so the third time that Harry returns to the bar to shake the police he discovers the bartender has been murdered and the patrons swear that Harry did it.
| StoryTitle6 = The Men Who Fly | Writer6_1 = N/A | Penciler6_1 = Vic Carrabotta | Inker6_1 = Vic Carrabotta | Colorist6_1 = N/A | Letterer6_1 = N/A | Editor6_1 = Stan Lee
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| Synopsis6 = George invents a way to shut off the force of gravity and just starts up his machine when he gets a call from Hal warning him not to do it or the Earth will tear itself apart.
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| Notes = ===Publication Notes=== * "The Frame!" is reprinted as "The Search!" in Marvel Tales Vol 1 128.
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Creative credits
Writers: Stan Lee, N/A, Carl Wessler, Paul S. Newman, Carl Wessler, N/A
Interior art: George Roussos, Gene Colan, Sol Brodsky, Jim Mooney, Vernon Henkel, Vic Carrabotta
Color: N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A
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