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| Grade | Amount | Evidence | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | $3,480.00 | PANEL_PROFITS · grade_4_0_valueguide | 1954-05-01 |
| 6.0 | $8,250.00 | PANEL_PROFITS · grade_6_0_valueguide | 1954-05-01 |
| RAW | $1,482.61 | PANEL_PROFITS · ungraded_valueguide | 1954-05-01 |
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Graded population
CGC records 82 graded copies for Strange Tales #28 (1954). Population is the number recorded by this grading source, not the total print run or all surviving copies.
Come Share My Coffin
A prison commandant learns through an informant that prisoners are escaping by being placed in coffins with the dead and later dug up. In order to get the names of the underground railroad, the commandant has his informant buried alive and promises that he will dig him up. After waiting in the coffin for some time, the informant strikes a match and screams in horror to see that the commandant is sharing the coffin with him. He realizes that the commandant must have been poisoned by a spy.
| StoryTitle2 = The Strange Man | Writer2_1 = N/A | Letterer2_1 = Typeset | Editor2_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing2 = **Featured Characters:** * Jeffrey Mason) **Supporting Characters:** * Unidentified Police Department ** Unnamed Captain
**Other Characters:** * Mrs. Mason * Unnamed Drunk * Unnamed Woman **Races and Species:** * Humans) **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Earth ** United States of America
| Synopsis2 = A man who forgets who he is wakes up next to a corpse and flees. Believing he a murderer he kills two people in an attempt to learn who he is and hide the crime he thinks he committed.
Years later after the torture of not knowing who he is dwells too much for him to bare he returns to the town he left. There he breaks down and confesses to the townspeople. The police captain being the only one to remain after a fire overtook the town identifies the man as Jeffrey Mason and he tells him if it weren't for the other murders he confessed to he would have been a free man. For it was his wife that was dead and she had phoned earlier confessing to the crime of going to kill Jeffrey and that if he had waited the police would have explained that he must have killed her in self defense.
| StoryTitle3 = With Knife in Hand! | Writer3_1 = N/A | Penciler3_1 = Jack Katz | Inker3_1 = Jack Katz | Colorist3_1 = N/A | Letterer3_1 = N/A | Editor3_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing3 = **Featured Characters:** * Ken (Surgeon) **Supporting Characters:** * Geraldine (Ken's Wife)
**Other Characters:** * Gangsters ** Johnny "Jobber" ** Numerous unnamed gangsters **Races and Species:** * Humans) (flashback) **Realities:** * Earth-616 (flashback) **Locations:** * Earth (flashback) ** United States of America (flashback)
| Synopsis3 = A surgeon starts performing procedures for gangsters in order to make money for his wife, but she cheats on him with the very gangsters he's been helping. When one of the gangsters brings her in with a fatal bullet wound, and the doctor realizes it's his wife, he commits suicide and leaves her to die on the table her pleas falling on deaf ears.
| StoryTitle4 = The Coward! | Writer4_1 = N/A | Penciler4_1 = Bob Forgione | Inker4_1 = Bob Forgione | Colorist4_1 = N/A | Letterer4_1 = N/A | Editor4_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing4 = **Featured Characters:** * Benny **Supporting Characters:** * Strangler Maden's Associate **Antagonists:** * Strangler Maden **Other Characters:** * Unidentified Police Department ** Unnamed Police Officer **Races and Species:** * Humans) * Cats **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Earth ** United States of America *** Lybolt's Jewelry Store *** Chicago, Illinois
| Synopsis4 = A gangster wants to avoid retribution at the hands of one of his pals so he resolves to kill himself but he hasn't got the nerve. When the man phones him and threatens to see him tomorrow night, the gangster constructs a time bomb and places it out of reach and handcuffs himself on the opposite side of the room without the handcuff keys. The radio announces a bulletin that the man he is afraid of has been killed in an auto accident.
| StoryTitle5 = Voices | Writer5_1 = N/A | Penciler5_1 = Don Perlin | Inker5_1 = Don Perlin | Colorist5_1 = N/A | Letterer5_1 = N/A | Editor5_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing5 = **Featured Characters:** * Johnny Scott)
**Antagonists:** * Johnny's Friends ** 165 (Bernie) ** Harry ** Unnamed Friend **Other Characters:** * Two unnamed cave men * Genghis Khan) * Two unnamed knights * United States Army) ** Two unnamed soldiers **Races and Species:** * Neanderthals) * Dinosaurs * Lions * Humans) * Horses **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Earth ** North America *** United States of America **** New York) ***** New York City ****** Madison Square Garden ** Asia **Items:** * Johnny's Ham Radio
| Synopsis5 = A radio operator builds a set that can pick up broadcasts from the future and he resolves to get rich but he hears a bulletin announcing his death. Since he believes that he has heard the future, he decides he will cheat fate by suicide, but the broadcast was the result of his friends playing a practical joke on him.
| StoryTitle6 = The Slums | 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:** * Mike Warren) **Supporting Characters:** * Gertie * Gangsters ** Joey ** Unnamed Gangster ** Louie
**Other Characters:** * Unnamed Tenant * Unnamed Mortician **Races and Species:** * Humans) (flashback) **Realities:** * Earth-616 (flashback) **Locations:** * Earth (flashback) ** United States of America (flashback)
| Synopsis6 = A gangster commits suicide after he gives a panhandler a counterfeit bill and doesn't recognize her as the woman that he loves and has returned to the slums he grew up in to bring her out of them. She kills herself when she realizes the bill is fake.
| Solicit = Though we all get lonely sometimes, maybe getting in a coffin right next to the dead isn't the best idea...
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Creative credits
Writers: N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A
Interior art: Pete Tumlinson, Jack Katz, Bob Forgione, Don Perlin, Tony DiPreta
Color: N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A
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GCD: 11294
PANEL PROFITS: 2388910