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Issue: Marvel Tales #137
Publication Date: August 1955
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Issues: #137 of 67 Issues
Title:
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
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 7 (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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A Jinn Named Joe!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Sol Brodsky
Inker(s): Carl Burgos ?; Sol Brodsky ?
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Lost...One Robot

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bob Forgione (signed)
Inker(s): Jack Abel (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A scientist attempts to build a robot companion but becomes jealous of its abilities. The machine can even read his mind and when the scientist thinks of dismantling the device, the robot falls apart in despair. The man realizes that he must look for friends among people.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: G-497
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Courage

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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In Content Item: FlagMystery Tales #47 published November 1956
as The King of the Lions [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "The King of the Lions"
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: G-507
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The Door That Wouldn't Stay Shut!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bob Powell
Inker(s): Bob Powell ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A landlord replaces a tenant's door with a door that continues to open of its own volition, so the man nails it shut for the night. When a fire breaks out, the door still opens itself, despite the nails. After the fire has been dealt with the tenant is surprised to see the words 'Fire Exit' printed underneath the paint the fire had scoured away.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: G-352
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King of the World

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Mort Drucker
Inker(s): Mort Drucker
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A physicist wants his youth back so he can use his knowledge to lord it over people and drinks a youth serum that regresses him to infancy.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: G-324
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He Came From Nowhere

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Forte (signed)
Inker(s): John Forte (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A man down on his luck is helped out by a 'dog' who is actually an angel.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: G-305
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A Jinn Named Joe

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: An office employee gets a Jinn who helps him achieve material success, but then he becomes unpopular around the office. When the Jinn disappears, things go back to the way they were before.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: G-408
Disclose Notes: Wessler credit per Biblio in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol 24, #9, September 2013.

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