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Issue: Marvel Tales #139
Publication Date: October 1955
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Issues: #139 of 67 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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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
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Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
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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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reprinted 4 times as Content Items in other Issues.
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The Nothing Man!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Nothing Man!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Synopsis: When a boxing hopeful invents a powder that makes him invisible in the ring, he becomes middle-weight champ. He decides the speed limit doesn't apply to him, since he knows the police can't see him, but after waking from a nap he finds that the police have constructed a jail around him.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: G-631
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Weather Man

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Chuck; Harry Davis; Dr. Ramsay
Synopsis: The weather reporter at a newspaper realizes that the weather is being manipulated somehow in an effort to destroy Earth's crops and helps the government stop the attack.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagJourney into Unknown Worlds #53 published January 1957
as The Dry Earth [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]retitled
In Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #72 published December 1959
as Weather Man [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales of Suspense #20 [unnamed variant] published August 1961
as Weather Man [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #86 [U.S. Cover Price] published November 1962
as Weather Man [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: G-931
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Danger From Nowhere!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Napoleon Bonaparte
Synopsis: A pilot who breaks the sound barrier hears voices plotting an invasion of America which turn out to be from Napoleon.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: G-593
Disclose Notes: Wessler credit per Biblio in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol 24, #9, September 2013.
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The Sleeper!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Synopsis: A father of a little boy finds out that even toys have parents too.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: G-561
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The Talking Box!

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Synopsis: When an atomic war destroys civilization, the primitives who are left use an old phonograph recording of a message of peace to psyche themselves up for the war raids they inflict upon neighboring tribes.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: G-619
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The Unseen Audience!

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Synopsis: A circus clown is unaware that his performance is being viewed by an appreciative alien ambassador.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: G-742

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