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Issue: Mystery Tales #38
Publication Date: February 1956
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Issues: #38 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)
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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
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Ice Man!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Alterations on monster per Michael J. Vassallo's blog:

http://timely-atlas-comics.blogspot.com/2016/04/happy-100th-birthday-to-carl-burgos.html

Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.
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The Man with Two Faces!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Synopsis: An ugly man fashions a mask for himself to woo a beautiful woman, but decides he loves her too much to lie to her and removes the mask. He is surprised to find that his actual face has come to resemble the handsome mask.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: H-598
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Mystery Team

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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In Content Item: FlagStrange Stories of Suspense #14 published April 1957
as Surprise for the Audience [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "Surprise for the Audience"
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Pages: 2
Job Number: H-785
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The Ice Man!

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Synopsis: A man from 400 years ago is thawed from an iceberg but accumulates so much debt that he returns to the Arctic.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: H-571
Disclose Notes: Wessler credit per biblio info published in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 26, No. 4, April 2015.
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The Searching Wind!

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Synopsis: Aliens hide in hurricanes to scope out Earth for invasion.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: H-726
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The Globes That Vanished!

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Synopsis: Thousands of planet globes are drawn into the sky, and when they are returned, the land and sea areas are reversed with the words "The alternative to peace" written on them.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: H-525
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Lost in the Black Tunnel

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Synopsis: Three crooks hide in a carnival's Tunnel of Love and are accosted by strange creatures calling themselves 'bad men'. They escape to the police waiting for them outside.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: H-576
Disclose Notes: Wessler credit per biblio info published in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 26, No. 4, April 2015.

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