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Issue: Mystery Tales #51
Publication Date: March 1957
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Issues: #51 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: 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
Format Notes:  
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Inside the Mummy's Case!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Bill Everett (signed)
Inker(s): Bill Everett (signed)
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): typeset
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In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #150 published January 1974
as Inside the Mummy Case [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.
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Inside the Mummy Case

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Joe Orlando (signed)
Inker(s): Joe Orlando (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Joe Waters; Mr. Stern
Synopsis: An undead mummy attempts to slay a museum guard by using telepathic suggestion to get him to open a booby-trapped section of the mummy case.
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In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #150 published January 1974
as Inside the Mummy Case [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #16 [unnamed variant] published April 1975
as Inside the Mummy Case [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-510
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The Lizard

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Al Williamson (signed)
Inker(s): Ralph Mayo
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #150 published January 1974
as The Lizard [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Art of Al Williamson #[nn] published April 1983
as The Lizard [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-509
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What World Is This?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ross Andru
Inker(s): Mike Esposito
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, horror
Synopsis: A thief hiding from his pursuers makes a wish that time would stand still. After he succeeds in evading his pursuers, he comes upon a town where the people appear to be frozen and he thinks this is due to his wish, until he hears a plane. He goes outside to look at the plane and notices a sign reading 'atom city' and recalls reading an article in the paper about a mock city constructed by scientists in order to gauge the devastation of the atom bomb and realizes that the people he saw must be dummies. He looks up at the plane, and sees a small object drop from the bombbay doors.
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In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #149 published January 1974
as What World Is This? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagVault of Evil #18 published April 1975
as What World Is This? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #216 published January 1987
as What World Is This? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: L-347
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The Strange Seeds!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Ed Winiarski
Inker(s): Ed Winiarski
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-511
Disclose Notes: Anti-communism story. Wessler credit per biblio info published in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 26, No. 4, April 2015.
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All In The Mind

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1.66
Job Number: G-297
Disclose Notes: Job number suggests a reprint from an unknown source.
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I'll Get You Later

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Dave Berg (signed)
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #150 published January 1974
as I'll Get You Later [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #179 published January 1987
as I'll Get You Later [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-467
Disclose Notes: Wessler credit per biblio info published in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 26, No. 4, April 2015.
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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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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.34
Disclose Notes: For 1 Oct 1956. Stan Lee, Editor; Martin Goodman, Managing Editor; Monroe Froehlich, Jr., Business Manager.
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Four Empty Chairs!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Marvin Stein
Inker(s): Marvin Stein
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A man's family disappears one evening and a stranger explains to the town sheriff that they are from another dimension waiting for a lightning bolt of sufficient strength to send them all back to their home dimension. The sheriff thinks the story is nonsense but suddenly a powerful lightning bolt flashes and both the stranger and the man have disappeared as well.
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In Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #9 published April 1975
as Four Empty Chairs! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #203 published January 1984
as Four Empty Chairs! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-424

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