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Secrets of the Unknown#239
Cover: Kurt Schaffenberger

Secrets of the Unknown #239

Jan 1987 · Alan Class · 0.55 GBP
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In "The Legend of the Good Witch!" from Secrets of the Unknown #239 (1987), a man’s disbelief in the power of nightmares traps him in a relentless, repeating cycle—each time, the same argument, the same road, the same fate. Written by Stan Lee and Larry Lieber, with art by Don Heck and letters by Joe Rosen, this eerie tale unfolds with a chilling sense of inevitability. The cover by Kurt Schaffenberger captures the haunting mood of a story where reality and dread blur.

Contains 13 stories
The Legend of the Good Witch!
10 pp · Fantasy
Dr. MastersBlack HesterPeggyEddie

In "The Legend of the Good Witch!" from *Secrets of the Unknown* #239 (1987), a young woman born of a witch executed in Salem carries a legacy of fear—but chooses a different path. Determined to heal rather than harm, she journeys through a world that remembers her mother’s name with dread, seeking to prove that not all witches are defined by the past.

Happy New Year
8 pp · Fantasy
Millie BoyceDick BoyceArthur WilliamsJoeAlice
Medicine Man's Curse
3 pp · Horror-Suspense
BelleChief Running ElkRed Wilkinson
The Keewaydin Mystery
5 pp · Fantasy
Kee-Waydin (Indian Chief)Running ElkYellow KnifePop Frazer
Blackout!
4 pp · Fantasy
Sam
I Flew in a Flying Saucer!
4 pp · Science Fiction
John Farrar
It Happened in Venice
8 pp · Horror-Suspense
AmyStephen
The Girl at the Bottom of the Sea!
11 pp · Fantasy
J. G. Thomas AndrewsRomaTa-ZakenLo-Gara
The Dream People!
4 pp · Fantasy
BakerPhilips
Gilligan Likes Pets!
12 pp · Science Fiction
Eddie GilliganCommandant Arkins
Nightmare!
5 pp · Horror-Suspense
John LarsonDunstan Kromm

In "Nightmare!" from *Secrets of the Unknown* #239 (1987), a man dismisses his friend’s claim that a nightmare could last forever—only to wake up trapped in the very same moment, reliving the argument over and over again. Written by an unknown author and illustrated by an unknown artist, the story unfolds in a chilling loop where reality and terror blur with each repeated turn of the page.

Planet of Evil!
16 pp · Superhero
Nemesis [Steve Flint]Lita CraigGrim ReaperNolbur
I Switched Bodies
4 pp · Fantasy, Science Fiction
Bradford

When a reclusive scientist tests his mind-transposing machine on a parolee headed to a routine meeting, the experiment goes awry in ways he never anticipated—leaving both men trapped in unfamiliar skins, with no clear way back. A tense, twisty little tale from *Secrets of the Unknown* #239, where identity and consequence collide in just four pages.

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Full credits

writer Stan Lee
artist, inker Don Heck
letterer Joe Rosen
cover pencils, inks Kurt Schaffenberger

Reprints

↩ Reprints Astonishing #51 (1956), Space War #1 (1959), Tales of Suspense #16 (1961), Forbidden Worlds #96 (1961), Secrets of the Unknown #10 (1962), Forbidden Worlds #117 (1964), Adventures into the Unknown #149 (1964), Forbidden Worlds #120 (1964), Adventures into the Unknown #150 (1964), Adventures into the Unknown #168 (1966), Unknown Worlds #51 (1966), Creepy Worlds #125 (1971), Secrets of the Unknown #149 (1974), Secrets of the Unknown #70

Reprinted in Secrets of the Unknown #128 (1972), Secrets of the Unknown #142 (1973)

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