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Issue: Marvel Tales #97
Publication Date: September 1950
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Issues: #97 of 67 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics, Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 6 (5 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 cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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The Wooden Horror!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Mike Sekowsky ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The World That Vanished

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Mike Sekowsky ?; Russ Heath (see notes)
Inker(s): Chris Rule ?; Russ Heath (see notes)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: An explorer finds a great library in the East which contains books that detail the story of Atlantis. Atlantis vanished beneath the waves because a commoner partook of a black magic potion so he could gain the love of the vizier's daughter. The potion made him so large that Atlantis sunk under his weight and he became too large for the Earth itself to hold him and he fell off the planet and died.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #182 published January 1980
as The World That Vanished [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #30 published ?
as The World That Vanished [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Job Number: 7484
Disclose Notes: Possible Sekowsky/Rule art and Heath splash panel per Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. via atlastales.com
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Beyond the Grave

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Don Rico
Inker(s): Don Rico
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: The king of an African tribe is jealous the influence the witch doctor possesses, and so opens the cage of a captured gorilla that the beast will slay the witch doctor. The witch doctor transfers his mind into the creature during his final moments and returns later to slay the king.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAll Top #31 published April 1952
as Beyond the Grave [Illustration on Cover, Front]splash page used as cover
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: 7577
Disclose Notes: Pencils and inks credits from atlastales.com
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Clue in Sepia

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: SL-3310
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Danger in the Sun!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Sol Brodsky ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Sun Girl
Character(s): Sun Girl
Synopsis: Sun Girl investigates a group of Incas in Mexico conducting sacrifices to the sun. Their leader has been educated in schools of the outside world, and so is not frightened by an occurrence of an eclipse, but he neglects to educate his people. Sun Girl convinces the superstitious villagers that the sun god is angry and they destroy their evil leader and free her.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #234 published January 1988
as Danger in the Sun! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #30 published ?
as Danger in the Sun! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: 4164
Disclose Notes: Possibly a fragment of a longer story; action begins abruptly, without a splash.
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The Wooden Horror!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Mike Sekowsky
Inker(s): Christopher Rule
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A puppeteer sorcerer creates wooden dolls to perpetrate crimes on the village below his castle.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagVoodoo #8 published January 1961
as The Wooden Horror ! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: 7483

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