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Issue: Mystery Tales #33
Publication Date: September 1955
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Issues: #33 of 54 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Atlas [black & white]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: 20th Century Comic Corp.
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: 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
Format Notes:  
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The Locked Door!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Carl Burgos
Inker(s): Carl Burgos
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.
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They Melt at Night!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Forte (signed)
Inker(s): John Forte (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: A scientist, who is bitter at having his ideas rejected, succeeds in developing a corrosive that melts automobiles. He plans to extort money for the counter agent, but has a change of heart when a dollar bill touches the corrosive and burns, thinking that it may be a sign of what could happen if a dictator gets control of his formula. He destroys the formula and resolves to work for the benefit of mankind.
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In Content Item: FlagDead of Night #9 published April 1975
as They Melt at Night! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: G-414
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Night Visitor

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: G-728
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The Unseen!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Sid Greene
Inker(s): Sid Greene
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: Flame, TV's wonder dog, is revealed to be an alien placed on Earth four thousand years ago to spy for the coming invasion. Flame has grown to love Earth and sacrifices himself to destroy the alien armada.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: G-457
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The Time-Saver!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Tony DiPreta
Inker(s): Tony DiPreta
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: A man finds a bank where he can save time deposits in order not to age. It works until the deposit slips are stolen by thieves.
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In Content Item: FlagWeird Wonder Tales #9 published April 1975
as The Time-Saver! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: G-447
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The Locked Door

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Robert Q. Sale
Inker(s): Robert Q. Sale
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: A young man knocks over a vase and lies about it to his mother. He keeps the pieces in a sack because his conscience bothers him. When he tells his wife forty years later about the lie she reaches into the sack and pulls out the miraculously restored vase.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: G-453
Disclose Notes: Wessler credit per bibliography published in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 24, # 10, October 2013.
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The Voices!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Everett ?
Penciller(s): Bill Everett
Inker(s): Bill Everett
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Bill Everett
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: Three men think they are playing a trick on an old man by broadcasting radio messages that he picks up and believes to be from another planet. They try to send him another message, but something blocks the transmission, and when they break down his door he is missing with only a message pad on the table that says "They have come for me at last!"
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCrypt of Shadows #14 published November 1974
as The Voices! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCapitan America #94 published November 1976
as Le voci! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
Job Number: G-458

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