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Issue: Marvel Tales #153
Publication Date: December 1956
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Issues: #153 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: (not set)
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): 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
Format Notes:  
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The Last Man on Earth!

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: science fiction
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #S published January 1977
as The Last Man on Earth [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #241 published January 1988
as The Last Man On Earth! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #4 published ?
as The Last Man On Earth! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.
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They Prowl on Earth!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Herb Familton (signed)
Inker(s): Herb Familton (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: Oil barons from Mercury are looking for places to drill in Texas when an Earthling picks up their thought transmissions and thinks he's developed telepathy. He stows away on their craft to get in on their claim. He doesn't know that their craft has returned to Mercury, so when he disembarks, he tries to rabble rouse the locals against the aliens. When they don't respond, he realizes that he is not telepathic. All Mecurians project their thoughts, and he is on another planet.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #S published January 1977
as They Prowl on Earth! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K-700
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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No One Can See Me!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Robert Q. Sale (signed)
Inker(s): Robert Q. Sale (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: A professor's assistant arranges an accident for his employer in order to sell his invisibility potion to a foreign power. He drives to his buddies to announce the professor's death but they ignore him, and he thinks he must be invisible because he spilled a bit of formula on himself. He rushes back along the bad road to the lab and has a fatal accident. What he doesn't know is that his buddies really don't like him much and were ignoring him on purpose to teach him a lesson in manners and that the professor's formula didn't really work.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #S published January 1977
as No One Can See Me! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K-858
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It Can't Be Done!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ted Galindo (signed)
Inker(s): Ted Galindo (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A scientist takes a handgun back to 1756 for protection when confronting a gunsmith he hopes to stop from developing his 'ultimate weapon' so that wars will not be as devastating. His fighting skills are quite poor, however, and the gunsmith and his apprentice easily overpower him. He panics, drops the gun, and hits the recall button for his time machine. He doesn't realize he has supplied history with the gunsmith's 'ultimate weapon'.
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In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #S published January 1977
as It Can't Be Done! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K-692
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The Last Man Alive!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ed Winiarski
Inker(s): Ed Winiarski
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: Freddy Kruger is dissatisfied with his life on a space colony, so he invents a story of plague wiping out everyone and requests permission to use the matter transporter to return to Earth. Permission is granted and he plants a bomb to destroy the device after he uses it so he will be an old man before any ship from Earth can reach the colony. Unfortunately, when he finds himself back on Earth, he finds he has been quarantined.
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In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #S published January 1977
as The Last Man Alive! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K-842
Disclose Notes: Hero is named Freddy Kruger.
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Music From Above

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Severin (illustration)
Inker(s): John Severin (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Joe; Gus; Angelo
Synopsis: A struggling band takes on a poor but talented young harp player who turns out to be a young angel studying on Earth.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #39 published October 1955
was Music Master [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "Music from Above" with new illustrations by John Severin
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: G-804
Disclose Notes: Original title is "Music Master" and has illustrations by Jay Scott Pike. This version has the same text, but illustrations by John Severin.
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Scare at Sea!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bill Everett (signed)
Inker(s): Bill Everett (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: Chinese communists disguise a submarine as a sea serpent to shoo away fisherman from waters which they wish to keep for themselves, but they attract the attention of a larger creature which pulls them down into the depths.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: K-818
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Saucer in the Sky!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler ?
Penciller(s): Pete Morisi (signed)
Inker(s): Pete Morisi (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A Mercurian joins the staff of a newspaper to perpetuate a hoax of saucers landing from Mercury on purpose so that people will not believe a real invasion is underway until far too late. Fortunately for Earthlings, he is unable to convince his superior on Mercury that there are people on Earth.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K-811
Disclose Notes: Possible Wessler script per Nick Caputo from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol 28, No 5, May 2017. Wessler's record book indicates a story titled "Saucer Scare" written on June 1, 1956 which may have been re-titled.

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