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Issue: Mystery Tales #52
Publication Date: April 1957
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Issues: #52 of 54 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: 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
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The Mystery of the Silent Fog!

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.
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Mystery of the Silent Fog!

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Synopsis: When a typical American small town finds itself being transported through space the mayor hits upon the idea of ordering all the townspeople to dress outlandishly and do crazy things in the street so that they won't be typical and the aliens will lose interest in studying them. It works.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: L-702
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The Fish Men!

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Synopsis: Fish men plot to take over the surface, but when they actually venture up there, they find the limitless space psychologically discomforting and the sun burns their skin. They return to the home beneath the waves that they are familiar with.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: L-637
Disclose Notes: Features the legendary city of Atlantis, first described in Timaeus and Critias by Plato (360 BC).
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The Broken Statue

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Letterer(s): typeset
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From Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales #147 published June 1956
was The Boaster [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "The Broken Statue"
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Pages: 2
Job Number: J-718
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The Betrayer

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Synopsis: A soldier who had amnesia in the war feels driven to find out the name of the one who betrayed his squad to the Germans so he pulls a gun on the mayor of the town the ambush occurred in to make him talk. The mayor begs him to let the past rest, but the man insists. The mayor tells him that his amnesia has prevented him from recalling that he is the betrayer.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: L-589
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The Too-Perfect Crime!

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Synopsis: A car thief invents a camera that allows him to shrink cars. The police become suspicious of him when multiple cars that he has photographed are reported as stolen and pay him a visit. He turns the camera on himself and after he has shrunk down, realizes that he has no way to activate the camera to restore himself to normal size.
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Pages: 3
Job Number: L-576
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The City That Died!

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Synopsis: A man stumbles over a 'light image' of an Aztec city that died hundreds of years ago. The image disappears, and the man misplaces his treasure.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: L-646
Disclose Notes: Wessler credit per biblio info published in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 26, No. 4, April 2015.
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Midnight on the Moor!

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Pages: 4
Job Number: L-660
Disclose Notes: A "Hound of the Baskervilles"-type story.

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