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Issue: Mystery Tales #47
Publication Date: November 1956
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Issues: #47 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: 8 (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
Format Notes:  
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Something Strange about Smithtown!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #241 published January 1987
as Something Strange about Smithtown! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #96 published ?
as Something Strange about Smithtown! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.
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The Man with No Face!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
First Line: How can you hide from a police officer who knows exactly what you're thinking?
Synopsis: A mind-reading detective pursues a criminal until he falls in love with his daughter and resolves to turn himself in.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K-474
Disclose Notes: Wessler credit per biblio info published in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 26, No. 4, April 2015.
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At the Stroke of Midnight!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: Proctor was a physicist, a brilliant mathematician!
Synopsis: An alien from another dimension volunteers to share knowledge of atomic energy, but the humans are suspicious that he is a spy so he returns to his own world.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K-623
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The King of the Lions

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: The audience shouted approval as Tonga, Tamer of Jungle Cats, teased Destiny with the crack of his whip.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales #137 published August 1955
was Courage [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "The King of the Lions"
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: G-507
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The Only Woman!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
First Line: The answer to Ted Davis's loneliness hung about the neck of a princess!
Synopsis: A man steals a pendant from a museum hoping that it get him a girlfriend, but the mummy's undead guards retrieve it from him.
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In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #203 published January 1984
as The Only Woman! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K-631
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A Knock at the Door

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
First Line: I've lent you money for the last time, Jameson!
Synopsis: A man has a doll made to resemble a relative so he can torment it hoping that the man will feel pain as well but the other dolls from the shop that it was made come to the doll's rescue.
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Pages: 3
Job Number: K-670
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Something Strange about Smithtown!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Fred Ames; Mr. Bondy; Mr. Malin; Phil Ketchum; Carl Strubel; Bill Mitchel; Charley Simms
First Line: Fred Ames was a salesman in hardware!
Synopsis: Fred discovers the entire population of Smithtown is actually plant-like aliens who absorbed impressions of the humans who used to live in Smithtown, but they can only live for one year. Fred lets them live in peace.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: K-580
Disclose Notes: a similar motif to "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"
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When They Wake Up!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
First Line: The sleepers had slept undisturbed for countless ages, but the men who found them only thought... how could they profit by it... when they wake up!
Synopsis: Cave explorers find men in suspended animation who possess advanced technology from an ancient civilization and lie to them that present day humanity is evil so they will help them conquer. The sleepers simply drug the two explorers so that they will join them in their sleep until they are awakened in a civilized era.
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In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #203 published January 1984
as When They Wake Up! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K-516

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