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Strange Tales #31

Marvel · Series began 1951 · August 1954

Dates

Cover date
August 1954
On sale
May 14, 1954
Pages
36

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Harry Anderson, Sid Greene, Bill Benulis, John Tartaglione, Bill Savage, Art Peddyinks: Harry Anderson, Sid Greene, Bill Benulis, John Tartaglione, Bill Savagecolors: Stan Goldbergletters: Morrie Kuramoto, Joe Letterese, Ray Hollowayscript: Paul S. Newman

Stories

  • The Man Who Played with Blocks! · 5 pages

    A toy maker gets a hold of wood leftovers from coffin construction and builds toy blocks from them. Like a voodoo figurine, whatever is built from the blocks is destroyed when the blocks are scattered.

  • The Living Legend · 2 pages
  • The Bum! · 5 pages

    A bum involved in a train wreck regrets when he takes the clothes off a prosperous man and leaves him to die, only to be arrested by the police and learns that they have mistaken him for a different bum that committed murder earlier and stole the victim's clothes.

  • The Money Tree! · 4 pages

    A professor is killed by a gangster who funded his money tree project when the tree only produces three dollar bills.

  • The First Man · 4 pages

    A mountain climber wants to be the first man atop Mount Ka, and he succeeds, but he finds that still he has been preceded to the summit...by a werewolf.

  • The Strange Ones! · 5 pages

    Scientists search for a mutant to tame their atomic pile but he has undergone a procedure that makes him normal.

Reprinted in

Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (2007)

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