Price history & market evidence
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| Grade | Amount | Evidence | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.0 | $1,395.00 | PANEL_PROFITS · grade_8_0_valueguide | 1954-03-01 |
| 9.2 | $1,814.00 | PANEL_PROFITS · grade_9_2_valueguide | 1954-03-01 |
| RAW | $216.78 | PANEL_PROFITS · ungraded_valueguide | 1954-03-01 |
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Graded population
CGC records 36 graded copies for Strange Tales #26 (1954). Population is the number recorded by this grading source, not the total print run or all surviving copies.
The Last Stop
When a gangster carries out a mob hit, he unintentionally catches his wife and children in the crossfire.
| StoryTitle2 = Guinea Pig | Writer2_1 = N/A | Penciler2_1 = Jack Katz | Inker2_1 = Jack Katz | Colorist2_1 = N/A | Letterer2_1 = N/A | Editor2_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing2 = **Featured Characters:** * Dr. Henkel **Supporting Characters:** * Milo **Antagonists:** * Zxh * Hyzx
**Races and Species:** * Humans) * Guinea Pigs * Rats * Xyxians **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Solar System ** Earth * Xyx **Items:** * Fluid of Xyx
| Synopsis2 = When a scientist rockets his assistant into space, aliens capture the craft and inject the man with a serum that increases his strength and drives him mad. They send the rocket back the way it came and the assistant kills the scientist.
| StoryTitle3 = The Busybody | Writer3_1 = N/A | Letterer3_1 = Typeset | Editor3_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing3 = **Featured Characters:** * Mrs. Miller **Supporting Characters:** * Jean Matsen) * Fred Johnson)
**Other Characters:** * Harold Trimble) * Carolyn Harris) * Devil_(Earth-616)) * USPS) ** Unnamed Mailman **Races and Species:** * Humans) **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Earth ** United States of America
| Synopsis3 = A cruel and greedy boarding house keeper steals and destroys mail that doesn't belong to her in order to keep a tenant under her thumb. This is her undoing when she swipes and eats a chocolate that was poisoned.
| StoryTitle4 = A Grave Mistake | Writer4_1 = Paul S. Newman | Penciler4_1 = Tony DiPreta | Inker4_1 = Tony DiPreta | Colorist4_1 = N/A | Letterer4_1 = Ray Holloway | Editor4_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing4 = **Featured Characters:** * Blackie Barnes) **Supporting Characters:** * Numerous unnamed gravediggers * Unnamed Cemetery Administrator **Antagonists:** * Two unnamed corpses **Other Characters:** * Homer **Races and Species:** * Humans) * Zombies **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Earth ** United States of America
| Synopsis4 = A gangster makes a union out of gravediggers and when he calls a strike to force the relatives to bury their own dead, the corpses bury him.
| StoryTitle5 = To the Stars! | Writer5_1 = N/A | Penciler5_1 = Carmine Infantino | Inker5_1 = Jack Abel | Inker5_2 = Gil Kane | Colorist5_1 = N/A | Letterer5_1 = Artie Simek | Editor5_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing5 = **Featured Characters:** * Ron Landon) * Arthur Landon) (Ron's Son) **Supporting Characters:** * Flo Landon) (Ron's Wife) * Millie Landon) (Arthur's Wife) * Lon Landon) (Arthur's Son)
**Other Characters:** * Van (Astronaut) * Nine unnamed astronauts **Races and Species:** * Humans) * Ghosts **Realities:** * Earth-Unknown **Locations:** * Earth ** Moon
| Synopsis5 = In 1980 men build a colony on the moon.
| StoryTitle6 = It Could Be You | Writer6_1 = N/A | Penciler6_1 = Vic Carrabotta | Inker6_1 = Vic Carrabotta | Colorist6_1 = N/A | Letterer6_1 = N/A | Editor6_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing6 = **Featured Characters:** * Unnamed Tortured Man **Supporting Characters:** * Unnamed Hypnotized Man **Antagonists:** * Aliens ** Two unnamed aliens
**Races and Species:** * Humans) * Unidentified alien species **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Earth ** United States of America *** New York) **** New York City *** East River *** Washington, D.C. **** White House *** Pentagon, Arlington County, Virginia **Items:** * Z-Bomb
| Synopsis6 = This story postulates that the reader has been equipped with a bomb and a posthypnotic suggestion by aliens to blow up the president.
| Solicit = Behold an alien abduction, a lunar colony, a shocking hypnosis, and more!
| Notes = ===Publication Notes=== * "The Busybody" is reprinted in Strange Tales Vol 1 64.
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Creative credits
Writers: N/A, N/A, N/A, Paul S. Newman, N/A, N/A
Interior art: Gene Colan, Jack Katz, Tony DiPreta, Carmine Infantino, Vic Carrabotta
Color: N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A
Source records & attribution
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GCD: 11171
PANEL PROFITS: 2388908