Mystery Tales
#12
(June 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 data from atlastales.com.
The Room That Isn't There!
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Joe Maneely (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Maneely (signed)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
Indexer Notes
Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.
The Room That Isn't There
comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- C-432
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Salaam! Come with us to the market place of bigger and better bizarre tales of mystery...
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Mr. Findley
- Reprints
-
in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #8 - in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #34 (1968 ?) [Black and white.]
-
It's Too Expensive to Die!
comic story / 3 pages
- Job Number
- C-225
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- in Voodoo (L. Miller & Son, 1961 series) #4 ([no date])
- in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #27 (1962)
-
Assassination!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- George Tuska (signed as G.T.)
- Inks
- George Tuska (signed as G.T.)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- C-697
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #8
- in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #187 ([circa 1987 - 1988])
-
The Flying Saucer That Was
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- C-486
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- George Ridley; Monroe Marks; Dr. Willard Seldin; Harry Landau
- Synopsis
- A teacher frantically tries to convince people that he saw aliens, but it turns out that they are friendly and make him their ambassador.
- Reprints
-
in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #10 (July 1960) which is reprinted - in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #1 (1964)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([January] 2006)
- in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #92 (January 1962)
- in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #101 (February 1964)
-
The Scavenger
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- C-594
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dawn comes up red after the storm and the beach is littered with wreckage and the corpses of the dead,
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #8, #60
- in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #187 ([circa 1987 - 1988])
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Room That Isn't There!
-
1.
The Room That Isn't There
-
2.
It's Too Expensive to Die!
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3.
Assassination!
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4.
The Flying Saucer That Was
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5.
The Scavenger
-
6.
Never Say Die!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Peter Croome
- Ethan Hoddes
- Stephen Mitchell
- Mike Nielsen
- Banks S. Robinson
- Jim Van Dore
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