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Issue: Mystery Tales #23
Publication Date: November 1954
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Issues: #23 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
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Shrinko

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Nick Caputo believes the figure selling Shrinko is altered or redrawn by Carl Burgos, likely to make him look more horrific than his normal appearance in the interior story. Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.
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Shrinko!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Two conmen sell bottles of Shrinko to everyone in New York, and to their great surprise, it actually works on buildings as well as people and now they are the only full size people left.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: E-718
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South Pacific Mystery

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: B-467
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The Burning Truth

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A man encounters a race of fire people living inside a volcano.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: E-687
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Violence!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A hunter's African steamer is wrecked by a sudden storm and he can't swim. He floats on a crate of Mambas until he sees part of the steamer is still afloat with a figure atop it. He makes for it, since the crate with the deadly snakes is breaking apart, and asks the figure to pull him up. He is roughly seized and stares into the face of the gorilla he was in the habit of regularly tormenting with his whip.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: E-689
Disclose Notes: Savage pencils per Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. via atlastalses.com. Previous indexer credited Sol Brodsky.
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Fit for a Corpse

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A criminal on the run ducks into a shroud maker's shop and, thinking him a tailor, asks for a fitting. He is shot dead by a police officer making his last stop an appropriate choice.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: E-721
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The Madman!

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A man devises a new form of government where scientists rule, and when he goes into the future by a time machine developed from work of fellow scientists, he finds that he has become a tyrant.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: E-573

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