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Issue: Mystery Tales #50
Publication Date: February 1957
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Issues: #50 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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The Pyramid's Secret!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bill Everett (signed)
Inker(s): Bill Everett (signed)
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #24 published ?
as The Pyramid's Secret! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.
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The House of Evil!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Angelo Torres (signed)
Inker(s): Angelo Torres (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A crook tries to rob an old man who lives in a house with a spell on it and finds that he has exchanged bodies with the old man.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #149 published January 1974
as The House of Evil [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #216 published January 1987
as The House of Evil! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-127
Disclose Notes: Wessler credit per biblio info published in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 26, No. 4, April 2015.
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The Little Black Box

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Robert Q. Sale (signed)
Inker(s): Robert Q. Sale (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A scientist invents a device that makes people susceptible to suggestion and a car salesman gets ahold of it.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #149 published January 1974
as The Little Black Box [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #216 published January 1987
as The Little Black Box [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-208
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Drawings of Doom!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ted Galindo (signed)
Inker(s): Ted Galindo (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A criminal attempts to force an artist whose pictures magically appear in real life to draw him a car with a big stack of money, but the artist simply draws him behind bars.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #149 published January 1974
as Drawings of Doom! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #216 published January 1987
as Drawings of Doom! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-275
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The Man with Two Lives!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): Vince Colletta
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Only one of two embezzlers get caught, but the convict threatens to get even with his partner who was not suspected. When the man returns home, he finds a doppelganger of the convict waiting for him. They struggle, and the doppelganger dies during the fight. He hears on the radio that the convict in prison has died at the same moment the doppelganger perishes. He is so flustered by the incident that he confesses his role in the crime to the police.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #149 published January 1974
as The Man with Two Lives! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #216 published January 1987
as The Man with Two Lives! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-235
Disclose Notes: Previous indexer credited Vince Colletta pencils.
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The Wishing Stone

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Marie Severin (illustrations)
Inker(s): Marie Severin (illustrations)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Johnny (only appearance)
Synopsis: Johnny finds a magic wishing stone, but wishes it away because magic would make life no fun.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Unknown Worlds #41 published January 1956
was The Strange Stone [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: H-401
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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When the World Vanished!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Gray Morrow (signed)
Inker(s): Gray Morrow (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: This story postulates that the world is 'cleaned' occasionally and all the people are moved into another world briefly while this is done and then transferred back.
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In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #149 published January 1974
as When the World Vanished! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #216 published January 1987
as When the World Vanished! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: L-269
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The Pyramid's Secret

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Forte (signed)
Inker(s): John Forte (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: An Egyptian tomb raider finds himself with privileged knowledge of a tomb and figures that the only way he could possess this knowledge is if he is the reincarnation of the Pharaoh, but it turns out that he is merely the reincarnation of one of the Pharaoh's slaves and falls victim to one of the tomb's pitfalls.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-242

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