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Issue: Marvel Tales #159
Publication Date: August 1957
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Issues: #159 of 67 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Atlas [black & white]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/18/1957
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):  
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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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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
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Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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The Man Who Believed!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Man Who Believed!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #151 published January 1975
as The Man Who Believed! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-31
Disclose Notes: Wessler script from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
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The Last Look!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #151 published January 1975
as The Last Look [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagB. Krigstein Comics #[nn] published July 2004
as The Last Look [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMessages in a Bottle: Comic Book Stories by B. Krigstein #[nn] published April 2013
as The Last Look [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-94
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Wish You Were Here!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: An artist with a poor memory for details comes across an old man who designs greeting cards with magic ink that makes what is drawn there actually occur. When the artist obtains some of the ink, he draws himself within a vault surrounded by piles of money, but he neglects to include the detail of...a door.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #151 published January 1975
as Wish You Were Here [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTomb of Darkness #14 [unnamed variant] published May 1975
as Wish You Were Here! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-64
Disclose Notes: Letters:
1) Letterese credited by Haydn.
2) Rosen credited by original indexer.
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Four Who Vanished!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #151 published January 1975
as Four Who Vanished [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-119
Disclose Notes: Inspired by the witchcraft trials at Salem MA (Feb 1692 – May 1693). Note by Tom Lammers

Letters: Rosen credited by Haydn (Same letterer as first story, "The Man Who Believed." The rounder letter forms suggest Joe Rosen rather than his brother Sam, whose work is more angular.)
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Nose for News

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Snoop Scooper; Marsha Marlow
Synopsis: A reporter with an uncanny nose and a woman with keen hearing and become the blueprints for a new breed of journalists.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #50 published September 1956
was The Newshound [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "Nose for News"
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-241
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Behind the Iron Gate!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: L-1000
Disclose Notes: Letters: Letterese credited by Haydn.
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The Terrible Touch!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Character(s): King Midas
Synopsis: A miner comes upon the immortal king Midas, takes him for a claim jumper and grabs him. The two men that the miner is telling the story to scoff in disbelief so the miner removes his gloves revealing solid gold hands.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #17 [unnamed variant] published June 1975
as The Terrible Touch! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-209
Disclose Notes: Inspired by the legend of King Midas. (note by Tom Lammers)

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