Strange Tales #46
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis May 1956 Atlas anthology delivers another round of "all brand-new strange tales" wrapped in a genuinely unsettling cover by Carl Burgos: a wide-eyed man recoils in horror over an open chest radiating eerie light, while two alarmed onlookers — one rushing in from the left, another watching warily from the right — seem desperate to stop him. The bold cover tease — "Why did everyone say… 'You Must Not Look!'" — perfectly captures the dread-soaked curiosity that made Strange Tales of Suspense such a compelling read. Inside, Joe Sinnott brings his sharp linework to "The Sands Are Running Out," making this a satisfying slice of mid-'50s mystery comics at their atmospheric best.
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A man acquires an hourglass which can send him into the future. He asks a pedestrian what year it is and the man replies '71. He assumes 1971 and learns of deposits in the land which make men wealthy and so uses the hourglass to return to the past again and spends all his money buying up the land. He goes into the future again to check his account at the bank and the clerk tells him he is not listed. When he mentions the year the clerk tells him that it is 2071. The man returns to the past and tries to sell off the land, but the previous sellers refuse to buy it back.
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