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| Grade | Amount | Evidence | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | $99.00 | PANEL_PROFITS · grade_4_0_valueguide | 1953-09-01 |
| 6.0 | $131.45 | PANEL_PROFITS · grade_6_0_valueguide | 1953-09-01 |
| RAW | $106.40 | PANEL_PROFITS · ungraded_valueguide | 1953-09-01 |
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CGC records 26 graded copies for Uncanny Tales #12 (1953). Population is the number recorded by this grading source, not the total print run or all surviving copies.
The New Tenants
A man works for a miser who cheats people on real estate deals until he gets so fed up with his boss selling run down dumps to kindly old folks that he kills him and shores up the floor support in the cellar with the man's body.
| StoryTitle2 = The Phantom Gladiator | 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:** * Ben Parker_(Earth-616))
**Antagonists:** * Phantom Gladiator * Nero) **Other Characters:** * Ben's Henchmen ** Several unnamed henchmen * Ben's Girlfriend * NYPD) ** Unnamed Detective * Polizia di Stato) ** Numerous unnamed police officers **Races and Species:** * Humans) * Ghosts **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Earth ** North America *** United States of America **** New York) ***** New York City ****** Manhattan ** Europe *** Italy **** Rome ***** Colosseum)
| Synopsis2 = A thief, Ben Parker, is forced to flee the US to Rome. While in Rome he attempts to steal from a museum and insults the spirits of the land by yelling that he was a match for any Roman. While escaping to the Roman coliseum is confronted by the spirit of a large gladiator and the Emperor Nero who gives Ben a thumbs down. Ben faints and is awoken by a police officer who doesn't realize Ben was apart of a robbery. Ben goes to a hotel, but when alone again he is confronted by the ghostly gladiator and is killed for his boast.
| StoryTitle3 = Dead End! | Writer3_1 = Burt Frohman | Penciler3_1 = Tom Gill | Inker3_1 = Tom Gill | Colorist3_1 = N/A | Letterer3_1 = N/A | Editor3_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing3 = **Featured Characters:** * Erwin Forbes) **Supporting Characters:** * Erwin Forbes)
**Other Characters:** * Peabody Faculty * Peabody Board of Directors * Albert Einstein) **Races and Species:** * Humans) **Realities:** * Earth-616 * Earth-Unknown **Locations:** * Earth-616 ** Earthspace *** Earth **** United States of America ***** Peabody ****** Peabody College ** Heaven) * Earth-Unknown ** Earthspace *** Earth **** United States of America ***** Peabody **Items:** * Erwin Forbes' Time Machine
| Synopsis3 = A man travels back in time and kills his younger self.
| StoryTitle4 = Devil's Island | 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 = **Featured Characters:** * Pierre Rebloux) **Supporting Characters:** * Unnamed Bartender **Antagonists:** * Suzette
**Races and Species:** * Humans) **Realities:** * Earth-616 (flashback) **Locations:** * Earth (flashback) ** French Guiana (flashback) *** Devil's Island (flashback) ** Europe *** France **** Paris
| Synopsis4 = A man takes his unfaithful lover in the dark to the largest pearl she has ever seen. It's still inside the giant clam which closes on her.
| StoryTitle5 = Bertha Gets Buried | Writer5_1 = N/A | Penciler5_1 = Sam Kweskin | Inker5_1 = Sam Kweskin | Colorist5_1 = N/A | Letterer5_1 = N/A | Editor5_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing5 = **Featured Characters:** * Bertha's Husband **Supporting Characters:** * Bertha
**Other Characters:** * Bertha's Mother * Unnamed Handyman **Races and Species:** * Humans) * Pigs * Fish **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Earth ** United States of America
| Synopsis5 = A man assumes his wife is cheating, kills her, and buries her in the cellar. It turns out that the man he thought she was cheating with is a handyman she hired to clean out the cellar like her husband asked her to. He is digging up the floor to lay down cement when he uncovers her body.
| StoryTitle6 = The Man from Outer Space | Writer6_1 = N/A | Penciler6_1 = Bob Powell | Inker6_1 = Bob Powell | Colorist6_1 = N/A | Letterer6_1 = N/A | Editor6_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing6 = **Featured Characters:** * Jed Morner) **Supporting Characters:** * Unnamed Alien * Mamie Morner)
**Other Characters:** * Mother Earth) * Doc Yates **Races and Species:** * Humans) * Unidentified alien species * Dogs * Pigs * Horses * Cows **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Milky Way ** Solar System *** Earth **** United States of America ** Unidentified Planet
**Vehicles:** * Alien's Spacecraft
| Synopsis6 = A woman on a farm who is always complaining that she doesn't have six hands to do all the work that she is asked to gets her wish when an alien crash lands in the barn with the power to grow new limbs.
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| Notes = ===Publication Notes=== * "The New Tenants" is reprinted in Journey Into Mystery Vol 2 9. * "Dead End!" is reprinted in Uncanny Tales Vol 2 2. * "Devil's Island" is reprinted in Crypt of Shadows Vol 1 10. * "Bertha Gets Buried" is reprinted in Vault of Evil Vol 1 10. * "The Man from Outer Space" is reprinted in Weird Wonder Tales Vol 1 3.
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Creative credits
Writers: Bill Everett, N/A, Burt Frohman, N/A, N/A, N/A
Interior art: Bill Everett, N/A, Tom Gill, Paul Reinman, Sam Kweskin, Bob Powell
Color: N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A
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