Marvel Tales
#157
(April 1957)
Marvel,
1949 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1957-01-18
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics, Inc.
- Brand
-
Atlas [black & white]
- Editing
- Stan Lee
Issue Notes
On-sale date listed for this issue is the copyright date.
Impossible Island!
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Carl Burgos
- Inks
- Carl Burgos
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Art credits per Atlastales.com and Nick Caputo.
Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.
The Secret of Murdock Farm!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Carl Wessler
- Pencils
- Joe Orlando (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Orlando (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- L-618
- Reprints
-
in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #20 (1963 ?) - in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #109 ([circa 1975 - 1976]), #174 ([circa 1984 - 1985])
-
Indexer Notes
Wessler script per biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015. Previous indexer credited Stan Lee.
The Black Blob!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Pete Morisi [as P M] (signed)
- Inks
- Pete Morisi [as P M] (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- L-704
- Reprints
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #20 (1963 ?)
- in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #109 ([circa 1975 - 1976]), #174 ([circa 1984 - 1985])
-
The Man Who Was Replaced
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Marvin Stein
- Inks
- Marvin Stein
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- L-696
- Reprints
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #20 (1963 ?), #151 ([circa 1975 - 1976]), #232 ([circa 1985 - 1986])
-
Indexer Notes
Stein art per Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. via atlastales.com. Previous indexer credited Sol Brodsky.
Trouble on the Island
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- John Severin (illustrations)
- Inks
- John Severin (illustrations)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- J-724
- Reprints
-
from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #36 (July 1956) [as "Trouble on the Island"]
-
Indexer Notes
Pencils: At first, Romita was erroneously credited. Now changed to Severin.
Impossible Island
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bernie Krigstein [as B. Krigstein] (signed)
- Inks
- Bernie Krigstein [as B. Krigstein] (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- L-688
- Reprints
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #20 (1963 ?), #151 ([circa 1975 - 1976]), #232 ([circa 1985 - 1986])
-
The Man Who Changed!
comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Sam Kweskin
- Inks
- Sam Kweskin
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- L-564
- Reprints
- in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #29 (1965 ?)
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #4 ([no date])
-
Indexer Notes
Pencils and inks credits from atlastales.com
It Waits in the Dark!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Tony DiPreta [as T. DiPreta] (signed)
- Inks
- Tony DiPreta [as T. DiPreta] (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- L-703
- Reprints
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #20 (1963 ?), #151 ([circa 1975 - 1976]), #232 ([circa 1985 - 1986])
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Impossible Island!
-
1.
The Secret of Murdock Farm!
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2.
The Black Blob!
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3.
The Man Who Was Replaced
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4.
Trouble on the Island
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5.
Impossible Island
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6.
The Man Who Changed!
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7.
It Waits in the Dark!
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