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Issue: Mystery Tales #9
Publication Date: March 1953
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Issues: #9 of 54 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: 20th Century Comic Corp.
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):  
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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
Format Notes:  
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The Man in the Morgue!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.
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The Specimen!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A scientist plots to use a mermaid from Atlantis to gain world renown and so he lies to her that he loves her until he can build an escape-proof tank. Unfortunately for him, she has the exact same intentions for him and drags him down to Atlantis so they can use him as a specimen to model how human males appear in order to create an invasion force.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCapitaine America #49 published September 1975
as Le spécimen ! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagChamber of Chills #18 published September 1975
as The Specimen! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: B-995
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Hunger

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, horror
Synopsis: A butcher poisons his ex-partner's meat locker in order to drive him out of business but then comes back later to make sure he did not leave any evidence behind and gets himself locked in. Over the course of several days he waits for someone to come and let him out, but no one comes. He resists the temptation to eat the meat and eventually starves. When his body is found the owner wonders why he did not eat the meat since the inspector had declared it unfit and made him replace the entire locker with fresh stock.
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In Content Item: FlagVault of Evil #22 published October 1975
as Hunger [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagVoodoo #4 published ?
as Hunger [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: B-739
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Ashes to Ashes!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, horror
Synopsis: A woman burns her uncle to death before learning that the directions to his fortune are tattooed in a map upon his back.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCrypt of Shadows #21 [unnamed variant] published November 1975
as Ashes to Ashes! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: B-779
Disclose Notes: Eedah credits per Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr via atlastales.com.
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The Broken Step

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ? (illustration)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1.67
Job Number: B-877
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Statement of Ownership

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: from statement: Editor: Stan Lee Managing editor: Martin Goodman Bus. Mngr: Monroe Froehlich, Jr
all quoting 270 Park Ave., NYC
Owners: 20th Century Comics Corp, Jerome A. Perles, Morris Siegel, all quoting 270 Park Ave., NYC again. signed: Monroe Froehlich, Jr
Tess Harwood, Notary public No. 08-6797825 (Bronx County) 9th September 1952
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The Man in the Morgue

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, horror
Synopsis: A hoodlum spends his last buck for a psychic reading and is told that his luck will change. After spending the night in an alley with nothing to eat an elderly man approaches him and he strangles him in order to rob him. The cops give chase and gun him down. The police wonder why the elderly man was in such a run down area and look through his papers to discover he was a lawyer looking for the hoodlum who killed him in order to inform him that he had just come into a large inheritance.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagVault of Evil #23 [unnamed variant] published November 1975
as The Man in the Morgue [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: B-826
Disclose Notes: Dowling credits per Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr via atlastales.com.
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Lost!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, horror
Synopsis: Criminals hide loot in a cave and one is arrested and serves a jail sentence of twenty years. When he is released he goes back to the cave and shoots the man and woman who were lost in there for twenty years, but their son kills him.
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In Content Item: FlagVault of Evil #22 published October 1975
as Lost! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: B-749
Disclose Notes: Tumlinson credits per Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr via atlastales.com. Previous indexer credited Jim Mooney.

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