Uncanny Tales 27

Title Published
June 1952 to September 1957
Issue Numbers
1 to 56
Number of Issues
56
Issue Information
Cover Date
December 1954
Indicia Frequency
monthly
Indicia Publisher
Postal Publications, Inc.
 
 
Cover Titles
House!
 
 
Cover Credits
Carl Burgos pencils and inks guess
Contributions
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Cover Creator Credit
Stories
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  Job
Number
Title Pages Credits
F-302
How Dry I Am
5 pg art Ross Andru pencils unsigned
Ross Andru inks guess

Contributors:
Ger Apeldoorn: Creator Credit
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
  B-249
The Creature
2 pg text
F-319
House!

Notes: Mort Lawrence demonstrates that he was one of the masters of the sequential-art medium. Unity of purpose from micro to macro.

Page 1:
Points of view: From the title Logo, "HOUSE" Rendered in stones floating obliquely above the main panel of the splash page to the two inset panels opening like windows rendered in perspective on the right we can tell that this story and this house shown from worm's-eye view (below), aerially (above), and snow covered (straight-on), is something unique.

Page 2:
Points of view: Panel 1: spider's-eye view, Panel 2: worm's-eye view, Panel 3: face-to-face (straight-on), Panel 4: Rats-eye view Note the narration above panels 2 and 3 is written on one continuous scroll parchment, uniting the two panels two views of the same subject: the two new tenants.

Page 3:
Points of view: Panel 1: bad-luck-view, (from under a ladder). Panel 4: fire's-eye-view, (from within the fireplace) Panel 6: Dead-rosebush's-eye-view.

Page 4:
Panel 3: worm's-eye view: Note the delicious shadows of the couple at the top of the stairs and the shadows of the banister. We end the story with three points of view of the the winner of the conflict, the house: Panel 5: worm's-eye view, Panel 6: rat and spider's-eye view, Panel 7: bat's-eye view.

-the stikman
4 pg art Mort Lawrence pencils and inks signed

Contributors:
the stikman: Creator Credit
Ger Apeldoorn: Creator Credit
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
  F-355
The Whispering Wind!

Notes: A living wind attacks.
5 pg art John Forte pencils and inks signed

Contributors:
Ger Apeldoorn: Creator Credit
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
  F-335
The Little Man
4 pg art Ed Winiarski pencils and inks unsigned
Joe Maneely pencils and inks unsigned
Notes: final 3 panels

Contributors:
Ger Apeldoorn: Creator Credit
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
  F-325
History
5 pg art Mort Meskin pencils and inks unsigned
Notes: I believe both artists are contributing to both aspects of this story at different stages. It doesn't appear to be a straight one penciler/one inker production to me.
George Roussos pencils and inks unsigned

Contributors:
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit