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Issue: Adventure into Mystery #2
Publication Date: July 1956
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Issues: #2 of 8 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Atlas [black & white]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Olympia Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Silver Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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The Man on the Thirteenth Floor!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Sol Brodsky
Inker(s): Sol Brodsky
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Color credit per Stan Goldberg.
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The Straw Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Mac L. Pakula
Inker(s): Mac L. Pakula
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: When a gaseous alien sees a scarecrow, it mistakes it for an example of Earth's dominant life form, and tries to possess it. A tramp sees the scarecrow moving and drops his cigarette in the hay from shock. The fire burns up the scarecrow and the alien leaves Earth, removing the threat.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: J-424
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The Man Who Saw the Saucer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bob McCarty
Inker(s): Bob McCarty
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A man perpetrates a hoax about a flying saucer landing and him being contacted by the aliens. His hoax is uncovered, and when Martians do land and give him the secrets of prosperity, he attempts to share this information and is not believed.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: J-496
Disclose Notes: Newspaper on page 3 is the Daily Bugle.
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A Woman Screamed

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Ross Andru
Inker(s): Jack Abel
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A timid man tries to hypnotize himself into being bold but fails.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: J-425
Disclose Notes: Some believe there is a case for the inker being Jack Abel.
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The Betrayer!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Bill Benulis
Inker(s): Bill Benulis
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A man travels into the past and gains a great deal of wealth through war profiteering, but when he returns to the present, he realizes all his money is in confederate dollars.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: J-406
Disclose Notes: Wessler credit from his record books, per Robin Snyder's the Comics, Vol 25, No. 6, June 2014.
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The Treasure

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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In Content Item: FlagAstonishing #61 published May 1957
as The Treasure Seekers [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "The Treasure Seekers"
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: J-667
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The Man on the Thirteenth Floor!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Paul Cooper ?; Chris Rule ?
Inker(s): Paul Cooper; Chris Rule ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: When his elevator cable breaks, on man finds himself on the 13th floor in another dimension.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: J-431
Disclose Notes: Uncertain which person is inks and which is pencils.
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Among Those Missing!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Manny Stallman
Inker(s): Manny Stallman
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: People of the year 2160 kidnap great scientists of the present day in order to help with their stagnant culture. The last recruit convinces them to let the men return and contribute their knowledge to the present day.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: J-449
Disclose Notes: Newspaper on page 1 is the Frisco Bugle.

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