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Cover: Dick Giordano

Uncanny Tales #22

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"Spell Casters" in Uncanny Tales #22 delivers a quirky, pulpy sci-fi twist on espionage, where a thief’s stolen watch with gravity-defying powers lands in the hands of shadowy operatives. Written by Carl Wessler and illustrated by Paul Reinman, the story unfolds with a chillingly precise moment when a bomber’s payload hangs motionless in midair—until it doesn’t. Dick Giordano’s cover captures the eerie stillness of that suspended bomb, a striking image that perfectly mirrors the tale’s tense, gravity-defying premise.

Contains 10 stories
Spell Casters
6 pp · Science Fiction
Space Major Eric Eight
The Sargasso Specter
8 pp · Fantasy
Cora BryceNeilSpike

Cora Bryce, a woman attuned to the sea’s secrets, warns that the Sargasso Specter is stirring once more—but the graveyard of lost ships holds more than just treasure, and not all who seek its riches return. With Neil and his dog Spike at her side, she ventures into the shifting tides where the past refuses to stay buried.

Ghost Tiger
7 pp · Fantasy
SandraDonGilliganMikeMr. Adams
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
8 pp · Fantasy
Jimmy RogersJosiah Pendle
The Decoy
4 pp · Science Fiction
Jim Castle
Problem Prisoner!
5 pp · Horror-Suspense
Warden FarnumClareEdward Simmons
The Strange Slot Machine!
5 pp · Fantasy, Horror-Suspense
Buster GroganRuthie HaltonEddie Margane
Ancient Ape!
16 pp · Superhero
Sgt. Kilkenny

In "Ancient Ape!", Sgt. Kilkenny finds himself in a frozen showdown when a prehistoric giant ape, long trapped in Arctic ice, is unleashed by gangster Augie O'Meara. With the creature now rampaging under O'Meara’s control, Magicman must confront the beast in a battle that tests both strength and wit.

The Terrible Timepiece!
4 pp · Fantasy
Konrad Brugy

Konrad Brugy, a man with a knack for trouble and a taste for the impossible, finds himself in possession of a watch that can stop gravity itself. When he tries to sell it to a shadowy group with radical ambitions, they put it to a deadly test—sending a bomber on a mission where time and physics bend in ways no one expected.

The Case of the Haunted Boy
1 pp · Non-Fiction, Horror-Suspense

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Full credits

artist, inker Paul Reinman
cover pencils, inks Dick Giordano

Reprints

↩ Reprints Adventures into the Unknown #8 (1949), Adventures into the Unknown #9 (1950), Strange Stories of Suspense #11 (1956), Strange Stories of Suspense #15 (1957), Space Adventures #28 (1959), Space Adventures #57 (1964), Forbidden Worlds #132 (1965), Creepy Worlds #125 (1971), Uncanny Tales #178 (1987)

Reprinted in Uncanny Tales #81 (1971), Uncanny Tales #110 (1975), Uncanny Tales #138 (1979)

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