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Strange Tales #5 (1952) · The Collector

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Strange Tales (1951)
#5

Marvel#5

Strange Tales

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Strange Tales #5

The Room Without a Door / The Little Man Who Was There / The Trap / My Brother Harry

Publisher: Marvel
Cover date: February 1952
On sale: Oct 8, 1951
Cover price: $0.10
Pages: 36

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Credits

Writers: Hank Chapman, Carl Wessler
Pencillers: Joe Maneely, Jim Mooney, Manny Stallman, Tony DiPreta
Inkers: Joe Maneely, Jim Mooney, Manny Stallman, John Giunta, Tony DiPreta
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Grand Comics Database issue 9441

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A scientist rejects science as useless for discovering the secret of time travel and turns to black magic instead. Hearing of a woman related to a witch burned in 1692 living nearby, he spies on her and sees her summon the ghost of her ancestor. She confirms to the ghost that only she can travel through time by means of 'the room without a door.' The scientist gets the witch evicted and buys the house so that he can search for this room. He finds a small box with wallpaper made to resemble a room. He breaks the box open and finds himself transported back to 1692 tied to a burning stake.

Joe Letterese, Morrie Kuramoto

Cover colors

Stan Goldberg

Editor

Stan Lee

Characters

Albitra Narrse
Alton Barnes
Dennis Ames
Harry
Henry
Hugh Kane
John Fenston
Lola Richmond
Marge
Mattery
Phil
Wilkins

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