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Issue: Mystery Tales #21
Publication Date: September 1954
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Issues: #21 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
Disclose Notes: Index revised with information from atlastales.com.
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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
Format Notes:  
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Original Artwork
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Title Page
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The 13th Floor!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg. Cover taken from interior splash.
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The 13th Floor!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Hugh Carter has a weak heart but his wife is also sickly and he works hard in order to send her to a better climate. In his office building the elevator takes him to the 13th floor where he encounters a figure who says he is Death. Hugh protests that he must return to earth and care for his wife. Death explains that he was brought here for a special reason but agrees to send him back if he accepts living another 30 years. Riding the elevator down he sees his wife riding up to the 13th floor and realizes she was destined to die this evening and Death was trying to keep them together.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagDead of Night #7 published December 1974
as The 13th Floor! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: E-688
Disclose Notes: Splash page is drawn by Harry Anderson and also used as the cover.
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To Live Forever

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ross Andru (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: E-684
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Helen's Hubby!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, horror
Synopsis: A woman murders her husband for his money but when she reads his will, she notices he forgot to sign it. She pays a medium to summon his spirit to get him to sign it, but she finds herself transported into her husband's coffin with the dead man, not the other way around.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagVault of Evil #16 published December 1974
as Helen's Hubby! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: E-653
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Nothing!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: E-675
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Hate!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: E-655
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It Walks Erect!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Dr. Arthur Nagan
Synopsis: A doctor who transplants ape organs into men to make them healthy is captured by apes who remove his head and place it on a gorilla's body.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Wonder Tales #7 [U.S. Cover Price] published December 1974
as It Walks Erect! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThor v2 #23 published August 1976
as Camina Erguido! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGorilla Man #1 published September 2010
as It Walks Erect! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: E-699
Disclose Notes: Dr. Nagan later appears as one of the Headmen (first in The Defenders (Marvel, 1972 series) #21), villains created by Steve Gerber.

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