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Issue: Mystical Tales #7
Publication Date: June 1957
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Issues: #7 of 8 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Atlas [black & white]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Emgee Publications Inc.
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)
Editor(s):  
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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The Haunted Picture!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, horror, science fiction
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Secret of the Haunted Picture

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: An artist sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for one year of success. At the end of that year, he finds himself entrapped in one of his own paintings.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagBeware #7 published March 1974
as The Secret of the Haunted Picture [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-825
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Hide and Shriek

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): George Karus; Joe Ricardo; Rita; Bill; Khala
Synopsis: A voodoo priest takes his revenge on a man who got him expulsed from his tribe by playing a practical joke.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #12 [unnamed variant] published August 1974
as Hide and Shriek [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-906
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The Living Shadows!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A medium brings the spirits of two living people, a smuggler and his intended bride, to meet with men who want to dig up his hidden gold. The smuggler's body follows its spirit and snatches the gold out from under the men's noses and disappears but the spirit of the intended bride falls in love with one of the men. She meets up with him years later in the flesh during the London blitz.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-775
Disclose Notes: Wessler credit per biblio info published in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 26, No. 4, April 2015.
Doug Wildey would use the same look for Chondu the Mystic in Tales of Suspense #9 in 1960.
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It Happened in the Attic!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, fantasy, horror
Synopsis: A man goes back in time and kills his ancestor.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Chillers #1 [Regular Edition] published October 1975
as It Happened in the Attic! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagConan le Barbare #5 published July 1980
as Dans le grenier [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: L-793
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Mystery Within The Walls

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Sam Catlett; Caspar; Ben Rump; Bill Rump
Synopsis: A local millionaire secludes himself from his old bowling buddies as he becomes wealthier, but they discover that he misses them so much that he has invented a robotic bowling alley.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAstonishing #45 published January 1956
was Mystery Mansion [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "Mystery within the Walls"
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: H-396
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Too Smart to Live!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, fantasy
Synopsis: A criminal comes across a prospector who develops amnesia from a fall and convinces the fellow that he's the wanted crook by switching wallets with him. His ruse works too well, however, as the prospector begins to act like the hunted fugitive he believes himself to be.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-815
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The Man Who Can't be Stopped

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A man builds a machine that will let him experience the thoughts of all people everywhere in order to gain power, but his mind can't handle the overload and shuts down.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFrankenstein #8 [Regular Edition] published January 1974
as The Man Who Can't Be Stopped [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-765

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