Uncanny Tales #4
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free"The Green Star" in Uncanny Tales #4 delivers a twisty, eerie tale of identity and inheritance, written by Carl Wessler and brought to life with striking art by Joe Maneely. When a wealthy man’s companion discovers a hidden son, he turns to a reclusive inventor whose strange machine can transfer a face onto a living body—leading to a shocking revelation about who the real heir might be. The cover by Bill Molno and Vince Alascia captures the story’s mysterious tone, making this a standout entry in the Alan Class series.
In "The Face!", Roy Farnham, a loyal companion to the wealthy Wallace Lawson, learns the man has a long-lost son—Andrew Lawson—hidden from the world. When Roy seeks out an inventor with a radical machine capable of transferring a face onto another body, the twist unfolds in a chilling exchange that rewrites their fates. As secrets surface and identities blur, the truth behind Wallace’s will and the inventor’s true identity begins to unravel.
In "While Simon Slept...!", Simon Miller wakes to find his life unraveling—his duplicate, claiming to be his long-lost twin brother, has taken his place. With police on the scene and the matter duplicator still humming in the basement, the truth begins to fracture.
In "The Mechanical Man!", inventor Mark Jordan wrestles with a haunting fear: what if a machine that thinks like a human could replace him? Determined to keep his place, he vows to build only a robot capable of calculations—nothing more.
In "The Man from Nowhere," Joe Ludlow’s ordinary morning takes a surreal turn when his shaving cream bottle releases Lance Runceford—a genie who looks just like him and claims to help mend Joe’s strained relationship with Linda by granting her the adventure she’s always wanted. But when Linda’s fear of the impossible forces her to retreat to the safety of the familiar, the line between wish fulfillment and reality begins to blur.
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