Strange Tales #32

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CGC records 33 graded copies for Strange Tales #32 (1954). Population is the number recorded by this grading source, not the total print run or all surviving copies.

Man or Beast?

When a man finds himself becoming a werewolf he travels to Hungary to mee with Dr. Herme Slovak. Slovak injects him with a serum comprised of wolf hormones that transforms the man into a single form instead of a half thing. Unbeknownst to Joel Dennis the serum turns him into a full fledged wolf.

| StoryTitle2 = Ticket | 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:** * Unnamed Man **Supporting Characters:** * Unnamed Man's Son * Unidentified Police Department ** Sergeant Tom Feeley)

**Other Characters:** * Feeley's Son **Races and Species:** * Humans) * Ghosts **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Earth ** United States of America

| Synopsis2 = A man and his son are traveling a long straight road when he spots flashing police lights and is able to stop just in time. The police officer warns him of a fallen tree and writes him a ticket for speeding while also warning him that he could have died and that his son could have died.

The man and his son travel to a nearby diner and grab some food. The cook mentions that they were just talking about the Freeley boy who died a year ago and that the man's son was the spitting image of him. The man mentioned that an Officer Freeley had just given him a ticket but the cook informed him that no police patrol that road at this time of night and that Freeley died along with his son a year ago. Freeley being the one driving that killed them both in a car crash. Confused the man leaves the diner with his son. His son asks his father why he lied to the cook about seeing a police officer. The man confused asks about the siren and the lights and how the police officers spoke to them. His son states that he didn't see anything but the rain, and the tree in the road. Remembering that he also gave him a ticket the man runs to his car and checks his coat pocket. Inside he sees the ticket written by an Officer Freeley scheduling a court appearance for speeding.

The man decided to drive more carefully from that moment on and decided he would go to court and pay the fine without any hassle, but he did wonder how the officer was to appear in court as well when he's been dead for a year.

| StoryTitle3 = The Dreadful Disguise | Writer3_1 = N/A | Penciler3_1 = Al Eadeh | Inker3_1 = Al Eadeh | Colorist3_1 = N/A | Letterer3_1 = Joe Letterese | Editor3_1 = Stan Lee

| Appearing3 = **Featured Characters:** * Nick Jacapo)

**Antagonists:** * Navajo ** Unnamed Medicine Man ** Numerous unnamed Navajo **Other Characters:** * Unnamed Diner Worker * Winter Sentinel_(Earth-616)) * Unidentified Police Department ** Four unnamed police officers * Navajo Snake Deity **Races and Species:** * Human) * Snakes) **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Earth ** United States of America *** Unidentified Diner *** Unidentified Navajo Reserve **Items:** * Snake Potion

| Synopsis3 = Nick Jacapo, a runaway criminal, enters a Navajo village wanting their medicine man to take out a bullet from his leg. The medicine man performs the task but also reveals himself to be a worshiper of snakes and as such he can change his appearence by shedding his skin. The medicine man offers this power to Jacapo in exchange for also worshiping snakes. The criminal asks to receive the power and drinks a potion as a ritual to do it. The police search the area but are unable to find Jacapo due to the fact that after performing the ritual he turned into a snake.

| StoryTitle4 = Harley's Friends | Writer4_1 = N/A | Penciler4_1 = Bob McCarty | Inker4_1 = Bob McCarty | Colorist4_1 = N/A | Letterer4_1 = N/A | Editor4_1 = Stan Lee

| Appearing4 = **Featured Characters:** * Harley **Supporting Characters:** * Murder Victims ** "Ed" ** Two unnamed victims **Antagonists:** * Unnamed Murderer

**Races and Species:** * Humans) **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Earth ** United States of America

| Synopsis4 = When a miser buys a old house and tries to hide his money beneath the floor boards he finds three corpses. Old Harley longing for companionship begins to treat the three corpses like friends, even supplying them with names. Months later the murderer of the three men returns to dispose of them more permanently but upon finding the hiding place empty has a heart attack and falls into the hidden hole into the floor where the corpses were hidden previously. Harley later returns and assumes the unconscious man was another corpse he had missed this entire time. He puts his "friends" back into the hiding place along with their murderer and nails the floor shut with him inside. The murderer screams and bangs to be let out but Harley assumes it's his mind being so imaginative that he's actually hearing his "friends" come alive. The murderer is last seen sweating with his hand around his throat perhaps suffocating to death.

| StoryTitle5 = The Wrong Man | Writer5_1 = N/A | Penciler5_1 = Jim McLaughlin | Inker5_1 = Jim McLaughlin | Colorist5_1 = N/A | Letterer5_1 = Morrie Kuramoto | Editor5_1 = Stan Lee

| Appearing5 = **Featured Characters:** * Unnamed Man **Supporting Characters:** * Largo) **Antagonists:** * Charles Johnson) **Other Characters:** * Unnamed Boy * Unnamed Cab Driver * NYPD) (flashback) ** Unnamed Detective ** Two unnamed police officers * Unnamed Elevator Boy * Unnamed Hotel Manager * NYSDOCCS) (flashback) ** Unnamed Corrections Officer * Anse) * Unidentified Police Department ** Two unnamed police officers **Races and Species:** * Human) (flashback) **Realities:** * Earth-616 (flashback) **Locations:** * Earth (flashback) ** United States of America (flashback) *** New York) (flashback) **** New York City (flashback) ***** Manhattan (flashback) ****** Canal Street ****** Al's Bar ****** Grand Central Station ***** Coney Island ***** Brooklyn **** New York State Prison (flashback) **** Westchester ***** Oakmere Drive ****** Johnson's House (22 Oakmere Drive)

| Synopsis5 = After he's framed for murder a man spends 20 years in jail and upon release concocts a scheme to kill the man responsible. The man hires a killer named Largo to kill him after he kills the man who impersonated him named Charles Johnson. The man ends up late to the home of Johnson and Largo ends up killing Charles Johnson instead of the man who hired him.

The man, not knowing Largo killed Johnson attempts to flee the state thinking Largo is still coming to kill him despite not performing the murder he wanted to enact before his death. He only wanted to die after killing Johnson to ensure he wouldn't go back to prison. While in the subway station the man sees another man who looks similar to Largo approach him. Thinking the man is there to kill him he jumps back into the oncoming train and dying. Meanwhile the man in question was just going to ask him for directions to Brooklyn while Largo is being questioned by the police about his involvement in the murder of Charles Johnson.

| StoryTitle6 = The Horrible Years! | Writer6_1 = N/A | Penciler6_1 = Joe Maneely | Inker6_1 = Joe Maneely | Colorist6_1 = N/A | Letterer6_1 = Morrie Kuramoto | Editor6_1 = Stan Lee

| Appearing6 = **Featured Characters:** * Harry/25500 **Supporting Characters:** * Molly **Antagonists:** * Unidentified Government ** Unnamed Official ** Unnamed Overseer ** Unnamed Captain ** Three unnamed soldiers * Soviet Armed Forces) ** Two unnamed soldiers **Other Characters:** * Slaves ** 7979 ** Three unnamed slaves **Races and Species:** * Human) **Realities:** * Earth-616 * Earth-Unknown **Locations:** * Earth-616 ** Earth *** North America **** United States of America *** Asia **** Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ***** Russia ****** Siberia * Earth-Unknown ** Earth *** Subterranea **** 15th Level **Items:** * Harry's Time Machine * Neuron Ray

| Synopsis6 = Harry, a scientist, creates a time machine to go into the future to bring back it's knowledge and become more powerful and knowledgeable using information from the future. When he does travel into the future however he then finds himself enslaved against his will by an oppressive class system. He's branded the assigned number of 25500 and sent to work on the 15th level inside the Earth's crust.

After years spent in the future world he recreated the time machine that was destroyed upon arriving to the future and sends himself back in time into his younger body in the hopes of just spending time and money with the wife, Molly, he neglected. Upon arriving however he notices he made a miscalculation and ended up in Siberia under communist control where he becomes their prisoner.

| Solicit = A man becomes one with a tree…

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Creative credits

Writers: N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A

Interior art: Paul Reinman, N/A, Al Eadeh, Bob McCarty, Jim McLaughlin, Joe Maneely

Color: N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A

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