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Issue: Mystery Tales #53
Publication Date: May 1957
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Issues: #53 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
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Burgos alterations per Michael J. Vassallo's blog:

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

Previous indexer credited Burgos on inks.

Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.
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The People Who Couldn't Move

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Pages: 4
Job Number: L-885
Disclose Notes: Wessler credit per biblio info published in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 26, No. 4, April 2015.
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That's What You Think!

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Pages: 4
Job Number: L-927
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I Died Too Soon

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Pages: 4
Job Number: L-919
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The Hired Hand

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Pages: 3
Job Number: L-933
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The Rainmaker

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult, science fiction
Character(s): Willie Wimms; Hugh Wimms
Synopsis: In the future, young boy's afternoon is nearly ruined by a scheduled rainstorm, but when he runs into the rainmaker's magical assistant, he gets a delay.
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From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #49 published August 1956
was The Weatherman [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "The Rainmaker"
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Pages: 2
Job Number: K-71
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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He Lived Again

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Pages: 4
Job Number: L-725
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What Happened in Room 14?

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Genres: horror
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Pages: 4
Job Number: L-918

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