Mystery Tales
#11
(May 1953)
Marvel,
1952 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- 20th Century Comic Corp.
- Brand
-
Atlas [black & white]
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
Index revised with information from atlastales.com.
Hang Until Dead!
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Bill Everett (signed)
- Inks
- Bill Everett (signed)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
Indexer Notes
Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.
I Can't Stop Running!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Sam Kweskin (signed)
- Inks
- Sam Kweskin (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- C-242
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A prospective diamond thief goes out to an old hermit's house where he is locked onto a treadmill with spikes at his back.
- Reprints
-
in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #10 (1960) -
in Chamber of Chills (Marvel, 1972 series) #9 (March 1974) which is reprinted -
in L'Étonnant Spider-Man (Editions Héritage, 1969 series) #44 (février 1975) -
in Hulk (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #15 ([März 1975])
-
Love Affair
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A man and his secretary enjoy an affair in their shared dream, but when the girl's convict husband is released from prison and hunts her down, their dream becomes a nightmare when the husband shoots the man dead. In the waking world, the man's wife screams as he slumps over with a neat, round hole in his forehead.
- Reprints
- in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #10 (1960)
- in Crypt of Shadows (Marvel, 1973 series) #16 (March 1975)
-
The Spice of Life!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- C-266
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- The fantastically wealthy Ed Bean finds everything he has done in his life frightfully boring (even murder). He offers a million dollars to anyone who can come up with something he hasn't done, and a grotesque old man answers the ad, bringing him to deserted house where Bean will get to try something he never has before -- dying!
- Reprints
- in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #10 (1960)
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #24 (October 1973)
-
in Los Vengadores (Ediciones Vértice, 1974 series) #14 (Noviembre 1975)
-
Blackmail!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- C-174
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A man gets rid of a elderly blackmailer by putting peppermint candies in his drink and telling him it was arsenic and letting fear go to work on the old man's heart.
- Reprints
- in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #10 (1960)
- in Giant-Size Man-Thing (Marvel, 1974 series) #3 (February 1975)
-
Indexer Notes
Art credits per Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. via atlastales.com. Previous indexer credited Manny Stallman.
Hang Until Dead!
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- C-222
- Genre
- horror-suspense
Indexer Notes
Pencil credit from atlastales.com. Wessler script per biblio in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 20, No. 9, September 2009.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Hang Until Dead!
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1.
I Can't Stop Running!
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2.
Love Affair
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3.
The Spice of Life!
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4.
Point of View
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5.
Blackmail!
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6.
Hang Until Dead!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Dwayne Best
- Bill Borre
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Ethan Hoddes
- Michael Hoskin
- Jim Van Dore
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