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Issue: Marvel Tales #156
Publication Date: March 1957
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Issues: #156 of 67 Issues
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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: 12/19/1956
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 9 (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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Bill Everett
Inker(s): Bill Everett
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
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How High Is High?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Paul Reinman (signed)
Inker(s): Paul Reinman (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Aliens from space try to destroy Earth by building two mile high skyscrapers which will destabilize the planet's orbit.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: L-463
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The Door to...?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Gray Morrow
Inker(s): Gray Morrow
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A hypnotist implants a suggestion into a prison's convicts that, if they escape, they have a recurring dream that passing through a door will grant them sanctuary and the door is that which enters the prison.
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Pages: 3
Job Number: L-427
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Which Face Is Mine?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Syd Shores
Inker(s): Syd Shores
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A crook gets the magical ability to change his face, but after pulling a robbery, he makes the mistake of changing his face to look like an escaped criminal and is shot to death by police.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: L-519
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The Quill Pen

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Joe Maneely (illustrations)
Inker(s): Joe Maneely (illustrations)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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From Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #32 published March 1956
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Pages: 2
Job Number: H-805
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The Secret Formula

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Ed Winiarski
Inker(s): Ed Winiarski
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Joe Rosen ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A secret formula gives a man the ability to project himself into the future. He finds that a farm is going to be discovered with oil on it, so his friends want to buy the property. He has misgivings about swindling the farmers out of the money that would have been theirs, so he tries to back out of the scheme, but his partners in duplicity tie him to a chair so he can't warn the farmers. He gets loose and drinks the rest of the formula so he can get there ahead of the swindlers and warns them against selling their land.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: L-466
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Statement of Ownership

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Monroe Froehlich, Jr.
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Statement Required by the Act of August 24, 1912:
For 1 October 1956. Stan Lee, Editor; Martin Goodman, Managing Editor; Monroe Froehlich, Jr., Business Manager.
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Sounds in the Night

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Angelo Torres
Inker(s): Angelo Torres
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Sam Rosen
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A deserter from the war of 1812 feels redeemed when his grandson takes up arms to fight for the Union.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: L-374
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Forbidden...Keep Out

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Mac Pakula [as Mac L. Pakula] (signed)
Inker(s): Mac Pakula [as Mac L. Pakula] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A girl whose scientist father believes that there is an undersea race of people living nearby an island keeps having dangerous encounters while diving and being rescued by a couple of young men. The scientist realizes that the two young men are members of the undersea race who can breathe air and are attempting to warn them away.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: L-315

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