Uncanny Tales #23
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Lucky Stiff!" from Uncanny Tales #23 (1954), a father's playful lie about storks delivering babies takes a delightfully absurd turn when his curious son takes the family's moose horn—claimed to be a magic whistle—and blows it outside. Written by Clayton Martin and illustrated by Sheldon Moldoff, the story unfolds with whimsical charm as the father’s joke spirals into a surreal, stork-filled spectacle. The cover by Russ Heath captures the moment with a striking, cartoonish flair that perfectly matches the issue’s offbeat humor.
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A father thinks his son asks him silly questions and so he gives him silly answers which annoys his mother. When the boy asks him where he came from, the father replies "The stork brought you." The boy asks "How did the stork know where to bring me?" The father replies "I blew my magic whistle" (which is a hunter's moose horn). The boy takes the horn outside and blows it and when the father goes to retrieve it, he sees dozens of storks delivering dozens of babies.
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