Strange Tales of the Unusual Vol 1 5

	Published
	August, 1956
"The Moving Stairs!"
	Penciler Steve Ditko; Inker Steve Ditko;
"The Last Tomorrow"
	Penciler Reed Crandall; Inker Reed Crandall;
"The Threat!"
	Penciler Harry Lazarus; Inker Harry Lazarus;
"The Parrot Speaks!"
	Penciler Ed Winiarski; Inker Ed Winiarski;
"Special Sale"
	Penciler Gene Colan; Inker Gene Colan; Letterer Typeset;
"Mary's Robot!"
	Writer Carl Wessler; Penciler Howard O'Donnell; Inker Howard O'Donnell;
"One Mistake!"
	Writer Carl Wessler; Penciler Robert McCarty; Inker Robert McCarty;

Appearing in "The Moving Stairs!"

Appearances not yet listed

Synopsis for "The Moving Stairs!"

People ride an escalator in a department store from which they disappear in order to spare them heartbreak due to immediately pending events.

Appearing in "The Last Tomorrow"

Appearances not yet listed

Synopsis for "The Last Tomorrow"

A man with an incurable disease is captured by aliens who wish him to mine a substance for them. They also capture a woman who has this disease which is cured by close proximity to the sun and they fall in love as the aliens return them to Earth after their mining work is complete.

Appearing in "The Threat!"

Appearances not yet listed

Synopsis for "The Threat!"

A janitor holds off a hostile alien intruder long enough for his body to disintegrate because of its foreign presence in Earth's world.

Appearing in "The Parrot Speaks!"

Appearances not yet listed

Synopsis for "The Parrot Speaks!"

A man discovers a telepathic intelligent parrot, but when Communist agents attempt to seize the bird to get it to work on scientific problems for them, the bird decides it has made an error in revealing its abilities to the world and goes silent once more.

Appearing in "Special Sale"

Featured Characters:

Marvin Kale

Supporting Characters:

Paula Kale

Races and Species:

Humans

Locations:

Unnamed future reality

Synopsis for "Special Sale"

When a husband goes shopping he finds a new cleaning fluid that makes anything better than new, even him.

Appearing in "Mary's Robot!"

Featured Characters:

Mary Weston (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

Emil Weston (First appearance)
Bryan (First appearance)

Other Characters:

Mr. Calhoun (First appearance)
Brad (First appearance)

Races and Species:

Humans

Synopsis for "Mary's Robot!"

A woman asks her brother to build a robot duplicate of her husband for her to gain the success that her timid husband cannot. She thinks her plan is working when the husband gains a raise and plays better golf, but the brother reveals at the end of the story he had been working on the robot all the time that her husband was the one actually achieving success.

Appearing in "One Mistake!"

Appearances not yet listed

Synopsis for "One Mistake!"

A man goes thru a time rift and assumes the people he meets are ancient Egyptians due to their dress. He falls in love with a woman and wishes to marry her, but the effect wears off and he fades back to the present. A scientist with a time machine offers to return him to whence he came and the man asks to be sent to the past. It turns out that the people he encountered were from 2000 years in the future and he is sent to the dungeon.

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