Mystery Tales #47

(November 1956)

The Man with No Face! (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

Robert Q. Sale (signed as Robert Q. Sale)

Inks

Robert Q. Sale (signed as Robert Q. Sale)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

K-474

First Line of Dialogue or Text

How can you hide from a police officer who knows exactly what you're thinking?

Genre

fantasy-supernatural

Synopsis

A mind-reading detective pursues a criminal until he falls in love with his daughter and resolves to turn himself in.

Reprints

• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #2

Indexer Notes

Wessler credit per biblio info published in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 26, No. 4, April 2015.

At the Stroke of Midnight! (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Reed Crandall

Inks

Reed Crandall

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

K-623

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Proctor was a physicist, a brilliant mathematician!

Genre

science fiction

Synopsis

An alien from another dimension volunteers to share knowledge of atomic energy, but the humans are suspicious that he is a spy so he returns to his own world.

Reprints

• in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #19
• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #54
• in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #149 ([circa 1974 - 1975]), #186 ([circa 1979 - 1980])

The King of the Lions (Table of Contents: 3)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Syd Shores (illustration)

Inks

Syd Shores (illustration)

Letters

typeset

Job Number

G-507

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The audience shouted approval as Tonga, Tamer of Jungle Cats, teased Destiny with the crack of his whip.

Reprints

• from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #137 (August 1955) [as "The King of the Lions"]
• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #96, #22 (1963 ?), #241 ([circa 1987 - 1988])

The Only Woman! (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

Herb Familton

Inks

Herb Familton

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

K-631

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The answer to Ted Davis's loneliness hung about the neck of a princess!

Genre

fantasy-supernatural

Synopsis

A man steals a pendant from a museum hoping that it get him a girlfriend, but the mummy's undead guards retrieve it from him.

Reprints

• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #2, #203 ([circa 1984 - 1985])

Indexer Notes

Familton credit per Frank Motler and Michael J. Vassallo from Atlas Tales. Wessler credit per biblio info published in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 26, No. 4, April 2015.

A Knock at the Door (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bob Powell

Inks

Bob Powell

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

K-670

First Line of Dialogue or Text

I've lent you money for the last time, Jameson!

Genre

fantasy-supernatural

Synopsis

A man has a doll made to resemble a relative so he can torment it hoping that the man will feel pain as well but the other dolls from the shop that it was made come to the doll's rescue.

Reprints

• in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #19, #149 ([circa 1974 - 1975]), #186 ([circa 1979 - 1980])

Something Strange about Smithtown! (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Joe Certa

Inks

Joe Certa

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

K-580

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Fred Ames was a salesman in hardware!

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Fred Ames; Mr. Bondy; Mr. Malin; Phil Ketchum; Carl Strubel; Bill Mitchel; Charley Simms

Synopsis

Fred discovers the entire population of Smithtown is actually plant-like aliens who absorbed impressions of the humans who used to live in Smithtown, but they can only live for one year. Fred lets them live in peace.

Reprints

• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #96, #22 (1963 ?), #241 ([circa 1987 - 1988])

Indexer Notes

a similar motif to "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"

When They Wake Up! (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Steve Ditko (signed as Ditko)

Inks

Steve Ditko (signed as Ditko)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

K-516

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The sleepers had slept undisturbed for countless ages, but the men who found them only thought... how could they profit by it... when they wake up!

Genre

fantasy-supernatural

Synopsis

Cave explorers find men in suspended animation who possess advanced technology from an ancient civilization and lie to them that present day humanity is evil so they will help them conquer. The sleepers simply drug the two explorers so that they will join them in their sleep until they are awakened in a civilized era.

Reprints

• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #2, #203 ([circa 1984 - 1985])
• in Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (2019)