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Issue: Mystery Tales #14
Publication Date: August 1953
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Issues: #14 of 54 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Atlas [black & white]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: 20th Century Comic Corp.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: Glossy Covers; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-Stitched
Publishing Format: Was ongoing
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Don't Ever Gyp a Gypsy!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bill Everett (signed)
Inker(s): Bill Everett (signed)
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.
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Today I Am a Man!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Paul S. Newman
Penciller(s): Joe Maneely (signed)
Inker(s): Joe Maneely (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: In the 1970s a man becomes paranoid that androids are out to kill and replace him so he kills everyone around him until he is apprehended and it is revealed that he, too, is an android.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagBeware #3 published July 1973
as Today I Am a Man [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: C-756
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Don't Ever Gyp a Gypsy!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Al Luster (signed)
Inker(s): Al Luster (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A man and his girlfriend attempt to buy the secret of immortality from a Gypsy for 100,000 dollars. He gets the money through robbery and buys the secret from the Gypsy. At first, he is glad because he can walk through bank guard's bullets and only be tickled, but when his flesh rots off, he realizes his girlfriend held out on the Gypsy and he returns to their apartment to kill her.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMystic #27 published January 1962
as Don't Ever Gyp a Gypsy [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagBeware #3 published July 1973
as Don't Ever Gyp a Gypsy [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagVoodoo #4 published ?
as Don't Ever Gyp a Gypsy [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: C-683
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Death in Vergona

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: 9690
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Listen, You Fool!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Paul Reinman (signed)
Inker(s): Paul Reinman (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Albert Rudley suspects that his wife Rita has been trying to murder him. Though he suffers from poor hearing, his hearing aid enables him to overhear his wife conspiring with their chauffeur Vincent. Albert learns that the recent string of "near accidents" that he has suffered were actually plots to end his life. Later, Rita asks her husband to go on a boating trip to Canada. Albert knows that she intends on capsizing the boat in the hopes that he will drown, so he takes measures to prevent this. He poisons her drink with a drug that will cause paralysis once she enters the water. He deliberately leaves behind his hearing aid, so that he will have an alibi as to why he could not hear her cries for help. Albert and Rita row out into the middle of a river and Rita decides to swimming. As predicted, the poison paralyzes her and she screams in terror. Albert smiles as his boat continues downstream. Unfortunately, without his hearing aid, he cannot hear the sound of rushing water. His boat goes off the edge of a water fall and Albert dies.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: C-920
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The Twin!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Paul S. Newman
Penciller(s): Myron Fass ?
Inker(s): Myron Fass ?; Jack Abel ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, historical
Synopsis: Twin brothers are always competing with each other but the one who was born first always get's the idea slightly before the other. The later brother decides he's had enough and is going to murder the first born twin, but yet again, he get's the idea just a little slower than the other man.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCrypt of Shadows #7 published November 1973
as The Twin! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: C-978
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Marion's Murder!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): George Tuska
Inker(s): George Tuska
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A husband is bored with his wife so he kills her and intends to bury her in the cellar, but he forgets that today is their wedding anniversary and when he carries her body down the stairs and turns on the lights, the neighbors are gathered there for a surprise party the wife had arranged.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagBeware #3 published July 1973
as Marion's Murderer [Story on Interior Page(s)]altered title
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: C-900
Disclose Notes: The title of the reprint in Beware #3 is "Marion's Murderer".

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