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| Grade | Amount | Evidence | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | $299.83 | PANEL_PROFITS · grade_4_0_valueguide | 1954-04-01 |
| 6.0 | $813.52 | PANEL_PROFITS · grade_6_0_valueguide | 1954-04-01 |
| RAW | $122.50 | PANEL_PROFITS · ungraded_valueguide | 1954-04-01 |
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CGC records 55 graded copies for Strange Tales #27 (1954). Population is the number recorded by this grading source, not the total print run or all surviving copies.
The Poor Old Man
An old man unintentionally summons a demon and the demon grants the man a boon. At first, he doesn't want to wish for anything because he knows that the demon will ask for his life or soul, but the demon promises not to. The man wishes for the love of a beautiful woman. He becomes chums with a Hollywood director and makes movie improvement suggestions. He becomes well off and attracts the attention of a beautiful actress. Despite his advanced years, she falls in love with him and accepts his marriage proposal.
With the wedding impending, the demon appears once more before the man. The demon demands payment, but the man says that the demon agreed not to take his life or soul. The demon demands his wealth or the life of his fiancé, and if he sacrifices his wealth, no one will remember him and he will return to being an unimportant old man. The man chooses to spare his fiancé and he reverts back to the way he was before the demon first appeared.
| StoryTitle2 = The Cask in the Cave | Writer2_1 = N/A | Penciler2_1 = Joe Sinnott | Inker2_1 = Joe Sinnott | Colorist2_1 = N/A | Letterer2_1 = N/A | Editor2_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing2 = **Featured Characters:** * Rodney * Jenkins **Supporting Characters:** * Greta Teufel) * Baron Teufel (Greta's Father) **Antagonists:** * Unnamed Vampire
**Races and Species:** * Humans) (flashback) * Vampires (flashback) * Owls * Horses **Realities:** * Earth-616 (flashback) **Locations:** * Earth (flashback) ** Europe (flashback) *** Germany (flashback) **** Bavaria (flashback) *** Bavarian Alps
| Synopsis2 = An old hermit kills people so he and his daughter can sell their blood on whine bottles to a clan of vampires.
| StoryTitle3 = The Clocks | Writer3_1 = N/A | Letterer3_1 = Typeset | Editor3_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing3 = **Featured Characters:** * Jack Arnold) **Supporting Characters:** * Jacob Arnold) (Jack's Father) **Antagonists:** * Penrose Clock Manufacturing Company) ** Randolph Penrose) **Other Characters:** * Randolph's Father * Unidentified Police Department ** Unnamed Police Officer **Races and Species:** * Humans) **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Earth ** United States of America *** Penrose Clock Manufacturing Company Building
| Synopsis3 = Jack Arnold goes to work for the Penrose Clock Manufacturing Company where he is treated like a child by his boss, Randolph Penrose. Not able to take the stress and humiliation any longer Jack takes a clock from the wall and kills his boss. Jack then travels around the city being tormented by the sounds of clocks that remind him of when his father made him promise to work with clocks from the ground up. This only made Jack more angry as he went around the city destroying clocks.
Once he heard the ticking of a police officer pursuing him Jack ran into a clock tower and his jacked got snagged causing him to get hung by the clock for the whole city to see.
| StoryTitle4 = Progress! | Writer4_1 = N/A | Penciler4_1 = Harry Anderson | Inker4_1 = Harry Anderson | Colorist4_1 = N/A | Letterer4_1 = N/A | Editor4_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing4 = **Featured Characters:** * Anthony Scudder)
**Antagonists:** * United States Government) ** State Highway Commission *** Joe *** Nick *** Harry *** Numerous unnamed employees **Other Characters:** * Ezra Scudder) Portrait * Nicholas Scudder) Portrait * Brandon Scudder) Portrait * George **Races and Species:** * Humans) **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Earth ** United States of America *** Scudder Tunnel
| Synopsis4 = When a hermit refuses to vacate his property and plants mines to halt state bulldozers, they construct the highway with a tunnel going beneath his property. This causes his house to collapse and when he investigates, he's struck and killed by a car.
| StoryTitle5 = The Garden of Death! | Writer5_1 = N/A | Penciler5_1 = Vernon Henkel | Inker5_1 = Vernon Henkel | Colorist5_1 = N/A | Letterer5_1 = N/A | Editor5_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing5 = **Featured Characters:** * Death) **Supporting Characters:** * Death's Helpers ** Three unnamed helpers
**Other Characters:** * Numerous unnamed humans **Races and Species:** * Abstract Entities * Humans) * Horses **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Earth ** Asia *** China *** Japan **** Hiroshima ** Europe *** United Kingdom **** England *** Union of Soviet Socialist Republics **** Russia ** North America *** United States of America **** New Mexico) ***** Los Alamos
**Events:** * World War II Category:World War II
| Synopsis5 = Death views the Earth as a garden and finds the mushroom cloud of the atomic bomb a beautiful addition to his garden.
| StoryTitle6 = Suffocation | Writer6_1 = N/A | Penciler6_1 = Tony DiPreta | Inker6_1 = Tony DiPreta | Colorist6_1 = N/A | Letterer6_1 = N/A | Editor6_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing6 = **Featured Characters:** * Vivian Cramm) * George Cramm) **Supporting Characters:** * Ella (Vivian's Aunt)
**Other Characters:** * Unnamed Lawyer * Unidentified Police Department ** Unnamed Police Officer * Unnamed Maid * Unnamed Butler **Races and Species:** * Humans) **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Earth ** United States of America
| Synopsis6 = A woman develops claustrophobia after she and her husband smother her aunt in a closet for her money. Her husband disbelieves her until their room shrinks down until they both die by suffocation.
| Solicit = Death has found his very own garden...and it's on Earth.
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Creative credits
Writers: N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A
Interior art: John Forte, Joe Sinnott, Harry Anderson, Vernon Henkel, Tony DiPreta
Color: N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A
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