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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)
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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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Forbidden...Keep Out!

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How High Is High?

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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...?

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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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Which Face Is Mine?

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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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Job Number: L-519
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The Quill Pen

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From Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #32 published March 1956
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The Secret Formula

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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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Job Number: L-466
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Statement of Ownership

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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

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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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Forbidden...Keep Out

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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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