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Issue: Marvel Tales #149
Publication Date: August 1956
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Issues: #149 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
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Content Items: 8 (7 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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Among the Missing!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bill Everett (signed)
Inker(s): Bill Everett (signed)
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Everett's signature on the cover on the wooden fence to the right of the monsters right hand.
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Among the Missing!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Hy Fleishman
Inker(s): Hy Fleishman
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A prospector returns for the man who staked his expedition when he finds a city of marble and gold, but the man thinks his tales are the result of sunstroke and doesn't believe him, until he sees photographic proof, and then he spends years in the wild attempting to find the prospector and the golden city.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: J-942
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The Last Warning!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Vic Carrabotta (signed)
Inker(s): Vic Carrabotta (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A woman has a premonition that her pilot husband is going to crash, but despite several of her dream details matching reality, he lands safely.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K-34
Disclose Notes: Wessler script per biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol 28, No 5, May 2017.
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Charlie's Choice!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Frank Bolle [as F W B] (signed)
Inker(s): Frank Bolle [as F W B] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: An employee finds that by turning the hands of his factory's time clock he can enter the time dimension where no one is aware of his presence.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: J-921
Disclose Notes: Wessler credit per his record books via Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 26, No. 3, March 2015. Previous indexer credited Stan Lee as possible writer.
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The Broken Man!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Tony Mortellaro [as Mortellaro] (signed)
Inker(s): Tony Mortellaro [as Mortellaro] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Castaways attempt to subdue one of their number whom they feel has cracked from the strain of island living.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: J-982
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Palace of Truth

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, romantic
Character(s): Franz; Mr. Joseff; Marianne Le Brun
Synopsis: A shy and artistic tour guide wins the love of a wealthy girl when an unknown force alters his painting to make it a proposal.
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In Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #61 published February 1958
as The Miracle Painting [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "The Miracle Painting"
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-174
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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Stop Us If You've Read This Before

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jim Infantino [as J Infantino] (signed)
Inker(s): Jim Infantino [as J Infantino] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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Pages: 3
Job Number: J-863
Disclose Notes: The same story as "Not Wanted" from Marvel Tales #116 with the addition that the story takes place on a planet populated by anthropomorphic dogs.
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The Thief!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Joe Orlando (signed)
Inker(s): Joe Orlando (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: In the year 2095 an immortality serum is developed and stolen by a ruthless man. He is pursued off planet by the authorities but then his rocket runs out of fuel on a lifeless asteroid. He decides that eternal life would be a curse on this barren asteroid so he swallows fluid from a bottle marked poison in order to end it all, but when he reads through the theft victim's notes, he's shocked to learn that the serum developer hid the serum inside the poison bottle.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: K-11

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