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Issue: Marvel Tales #116
Publication Date: July 1953
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Issues: #116 of 67 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: Marvel Comics, Inc.
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: 8 (6 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
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Werewolf by Night!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.
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Won't You Step Into My Parlor?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Joe Sinnott (signed)
Inker(s): Joe Sinnott (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: C-699
Disclose Notes: The same story as the first story in Journey Into Mystery #80
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Werewolf by Night!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): William Wellman ?
Inker(s): Jack Abel
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A young man becomes forced into being an accomplice for a werewolf when he commits robberies for his lady love and leaves the victims for the werewolf. It turns out the girl is a werewolf too, the daughter of the elderly werewolf.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: C-577
Disclose Notes: Wellman pencils per Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. via atlastales.com. Previous indexer credited Jack Abel.
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Not Wanted!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Sam Kweskin (signed)
Inker(s): Sam Kweskin (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A talent agent doesn't even bother to look at the person who walks in his door and auditions. He is unimpressed, and the talking and singing dog walks out of the office.
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Pages: 2
Job Number: C-470
Disclose Notes: Wessler script per biblio in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 20, No. 9, September 2009.
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The Starmen

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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From Issue: FlagSpace Squadron #2 published August 1951original title "Capt. Jet Dixon and the Space Squadron Battle the Fiends with Four Arms"
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Pages: 2
Job Number: 8711
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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee ?
Penciller(s): Bill Everett ? (illustration)
Inker(s): Bill Everett (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: House ad for Menace (Marvel, 1953 series) #3 (May 1953). The mock-up for the ad shows the cover of Menace No. 3 with No. 13 added to it. The actual cover has no number and the month (May) is placed in the location of the No.
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The Final Payment!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Al Eadeh (signed)
Inker(s): Al Eadeh (signed)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A miser is beheaded in an auto accident and can't understand why people flee at the sight of him.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: C-615
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When Billy Says Bang!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Tony DiPreta [as DiPrita] (signed)
Inker(s): Tony DiPreta [as DiPrita] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A doctor discovers a young boy who has the ability to kill people by pointing his finger and saying 'bang' so he decides to use the child to eliminate his rivals. The doctor keeps rewarding Billy with peppermint sticks for each killing, but when the doctor takes Billy to a funeral to eliminate a large group at once, Billy points his finger at him and says 'bang'. When the commotion attracts a passerby he asks Billy what is the situation with the dead man beside him and Billy says "He was a bad man. He gave me too much peppermint sticks and now I have a stomachache!"
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Pages: 5
Job Number: C-576

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