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Issue: Mystery Tales #41
Publication Date: May 1956
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Issues: #41 of 54 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
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: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 8 (7 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
Format Notes:  
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Behind the Mask!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Bill Everett (signed); Carl Burgos (see notes)
Inker(s): Bill Everett (signed); Carl Burgos (see notes)
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg. Per Michael J. Vassallo, Burgos heavily-altered the Everett signed cover.
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Out of the Darkness

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Mort Drucker
Inker(s): Mort Drucker
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Leonardo Da Vinci builds a spacecraft and sends it off to populate an entire planet with robots.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: J-243
Disclose Notes: Features Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519).
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The Mystery of the Doomed Derelict!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Romita (signed)
Inker(s): John Romita (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A cruel sea captain is cursed until he can find a crew that will serve under him willingly and respect him but the leopard seems unable to change his spots.
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In Content Item: FlagVault of Evil #4 published August 1973
as The Mystery of the Doomed Derelict! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #216 published January 1987
as The Mystery of the Doomed Derelict! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: J-242
Disclose Notes: Features a sea captain named Josiah Wedgwood; no relation to the English potter Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795).
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The Man in the Mirror!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ed Winiarski
Inker(s): Ed Winiarski
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: When a timid fellow buys a mirror at an auction, it turns him into a real man.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: J-188
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While the Town Sleeps!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Kurt Schaffenberger
Inker(s): Kurt Schaffenberger
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: The statue of the Dutch boy plugs the hole in the dike with his finger.
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In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #20 published March 1973
as While the Town Sleeps! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: J-56
Disclose Notes: Inspired by the story of the "Hero of Haarlem," the little Dutch boy with his finger in the dike, first told in "Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates" by Mary Mapes Dodge (1865).
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New Century

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: J-391
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Behind the Mask

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Jim McLaughlin ?; Sol Brodsky (see notes)
Inker(s): Jim McLaughlin ?; Sol Brodsky (see notes)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: When a man tries to use a handsome mask to get rich women to marry him they keep dissolving as he proposes. When he has a change in attitude and tries to help a poor girl, he is honest with her that he is only wearing a mask, but when he removes it he finds his homely face has now come to resemble the handsome mask.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: J-203
Disclose Notes: Wessler credit per biblio info published in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 26, No. 4, April 2015. Possible McLaughlin pencils per Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. Possible McLaughlin inks and Brodsky alterations per Nick Caputo. Nick notes that Brodsky re-drew the main characters face throughout.
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This Primitive Planet!

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: A new metal worker at the shop builds a flying saucer out of scraps during his spare time to leave Earth.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: J-137

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