Uncanny Tales #1
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "Like a Chicken Without a Head," a brilliant but ridiculed doctor pushes the boundaries of medical science with a radical procedure that keeps a severed head alive through artificial means. Written by Stan Lee and illustrated with eerie precision by Reed Crandall, the story unfolds with a chilling blend of ambition and isolation. The haunting final moment, rendered with stark intensity, is captured on the cover by Gil Kane and Tom Palmer.
In "Like a Chicken Without a Head," a disgraced doctor's radical surgical theory—keeping a heart beating after head removal—falls on deaf ears, driving him to despair. When he finally tests his own formula, the moment becomes a chilling act of defiance, leaving him to whisper, "The world isn't ready for us."
In "Time Marches On!", a solitary man becomes obsessed with constructing a clock that defies time by repairing itself—his passion met with ridicule until the very machinery he built begins to consume him. When the final gears turn and the undertaker arrives, pulling him by the clothes, the truth of his transformation is revealed in a chilling, silent moment.
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↩ Reprints Uncanny Tales #9 (1953)
Reprinted in Marvel Firsts: The 1970s #2 (2012)
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