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Issue: Mystery Tales #20
Publication Date: July 1954
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Issues: #20 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: 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
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The Stone Man!

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.
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The Snake!

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Synopsis: A man takes one of his wife's sister's pet cobras out of the snake pit to kill his wife, but even though he tries to frame the sister, the police get wise to him.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: E-246
Disclose Notes: Possible Woromay pencils and unknown inks per Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. via atlastales.com. Previous indexer credited Robert McCarty on pencils and Howard Nostrand on inks.
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Trapped in the Web

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
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The Stone Men!

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Synopsis: A diver finds out first hand that the human-like coral figures standing guard over an underwater treasure grotto are the bodies of unfortunate treasure seekers paralyzed by the fish and encrusted over by the animal life.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: E-331
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Too Many Corpses!

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Synopsis: A miner finds their drilling has made its way into an old cemetery and, while his work crew refuse to violate the sanctity of the burial site, he pushes on ahead. The roof collapses on him and the workmen now consider the tunnel his grave, and leave him buried alive.
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Possible Burgos inks per Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. via atlastales.com. Previous indexer credited Hy Rosen.
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Crime Wave

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Genres: horror, mystery
Synopsis: A thug in Chile gets the idea of forcing the weather man to tell the people there is a tidal wave incoming so that he may plunder their homes when they seek shelter further inland. He carries out his plan but, unknown to him, there actually is a tidal wave incoming and it drowns him and his gang.
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Job Number: E-278
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The Man on the Moon

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Synopsis: A robot pilot gets a rocket so bravely to the moon in hazardous conditions that the humans think he is one of them until they see they tattoo identification on his arm.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: E-403

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