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Issue: Mystery Tales #53

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Publication Date: May 1957

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Issues: #53 of 54 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

Brand: Atlas [black & white]

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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Format

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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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted anywhere.

Reprinted From1

1 Content Item
- The Rainmaker [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

Digital Edition

Adult Image

Title Page

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

Digital Edition

Adult Image

Title Page

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Content Items (8 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Bill Everett; Carl Burgos (alterations)

Inker(s): Bill Everett; Carl Burgos (alterations)

Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg

Letterer(s): typeset

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Burgos alterations per Michael J. Vassallo's blog:

http://timely-atlas-comics.blogspot.com/2016/04/happy-100th-birthday-to-carl-burgos.html

Previous indexer credited Burgos on inks.

Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.

The People Who Couldn't Move

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Carl Wessler

Penciller(s): Dick Giordano

Inker(s): Dick Giordano

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 4

Job Number: L-885

Notes: Wessler credit per biblio info published in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 26, No. 4, April 2015.

That's What You Think!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Frank W. Bolle [as FWB]

Inker(s): Frank W. Bolle [as FWB]

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 4

Job Number: L-927

I Died Too Soon

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Marvin Stein

Inker(s): Marvin Stein

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

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Pages: 4

Job Number: L-919

The Hired Hand

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Manny Stallman

Inker(s): Manny Stallman

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 3

Job Number: L-933

The Rainmaker

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Gene Colan

Inker(s): Gene Colan

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Willie Wimms; Hugh Wimms

Synopsis: In the future, young boy's afternoon is nearly ruined by a scheduled rainstorm, but when he runs into the rainmaker's magical assistant, he gets a delay.

Reprinting

From Content Item: Flag

Strange Tales #49 published August 1956
was The Weatherman [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "The Rainmaker"

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Job Number: K-71

Notes: Text story with illustration.

He Lived Again

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Ed Winiarski

Inker(s): Ed Winiarski

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 4

Job Number: L-725

What Happened in Room 14?

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): John Forte (signed)

Inker(s): John Forte (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 4

Job Number: L-918