Price history & market evidence
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| Grade | Amount | Evidence | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | $405.00 | PANEL_PROFITS · grade_4_0_valueguide | 1954-02-01 |
| 6.0 | $806.63 | PANEL_PROFITS · grade_6_0_valueguide | 1954-02-01 |
| RAW | $144.61 | PANEL_PROFITS · ungraded_valueguide | 1954-02-01 |
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Graded population
CGC records 39 graded copies for Uncanny Tales #17 (1954). Population is the number recorded by this grading source, not the total print run or all surviving copies.
From Out of the Night
In this story, the writer relates to the reader the process of how he came up with a sci-fi story about alien creatures plotting to conquer humanity by possessing the body of the writer to use as an information source.
| StoryTitle2 = I Live With Corpses | Synopsis2 = A cemetery watchman gets his chance to escape his job when a bank robber asks him to hide him from the police. The robber tells the watchman about an inventor who has a time machine that will send one person fifty years into the future. The watchman kills the robber and takes his place. The machine works and the watchman finds money is now useless and people only work jobs they have experience in so, even though there are no new deaths among people who live forever, the watchman is forcibly placed back into his old job.
| StoryTitle3 = The New World | Synopsis3 = Aliens attempt to aid humans after atomic war but are executed. The last one sees a patch on the ruler's garment which indicates the only remaining humans are descended from the inmates of an insane asylum.
| StoryTitle4 = Tomorrow I Die | Synopsis4 = Burt steals a Squealie from the Martians because it can see the future but it tells him he is going to die tomorrow at nine o'clock in his own home. Burt inadvertently brings this about when he attempts to ride in his spaceship until the hour is past but runs out of fuel and crashes into his own home.
| StoryTitle5 = The Replacement | Synopsis5 = This story follows the career of Adolph Hitler in Hell as he's replaced by Josef Stalin.
| Appearing1 = **Featured Characters:** * **Supporting Characters:** * **Antagonists:** * **Other Characters:** * **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * **Items:** * **Vehicles:** *
| Appearing2 = **Featured Characters:** * **Supporting Characters:** * **Antagonists:** * **Other Characters:** * **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * **Items:** * **Vehicles:** *
| Appearing3 = **Featured Characters:** * **Supporting Characters:** * **Antagonists:** * **Other Characters:** * **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * **Items:** * **Vehicles:** *
| Appearing4 = **Featured Characters:** * Burt **Supporting Characters:** * **Antagonists:** * **Other Characters:** * **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * **Items:** * **Vehicles:** *
| Appearing5 = **Featured Characters:** * Adolph Hitler) **Supporting Characters:** * Josef Stalin) **Antagonists:** * **Other Characters:** * **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Hell **Items:** * **Vehicles:** *
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Creative credits
Interior art: Gene Colan, Mort Lawrence, Paul Reinman, C.A. Winter
Source records & attribution
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