Adventure Into Mystery #8

(July 1957)

The Man Who Couldn't Be Killed! (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Jimmy Infantino

Inks

Jimmy Infantino

Colors

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Letters

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Job Number

M-42

Synopsis

A man is going to be hanged on Monday so he escapes from jail and gets a potion from a witch doctor that will remove all Mondays from his life. He forgot that he was born on a Monday.

Reprints

• in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #176 (October 1974)

Indexer Notes

Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

The Voice from Nowhere (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

George Woodbridge (signed)

Inks

George Woodbridge (signed)

Colors

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Letters

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Job Number

M-90

Synopsis

A man at the airport picks up a suitcase containing a ventriloquist's doll by accident and it gives life-saving advice to the pilot.

Reprints

• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #138 ([circa 1973 - 1974]), #164 ([circa 1976 - 1977])

Indexer Notes

Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Wessler script per Nick Caputo from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.

Effigy! (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Angelo Torres

Inks

Angelo Torres

Colors

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Letters

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Job Number

M-120

Synopsis

A painter paints a painting of a dead man he dislikes who shoots him in the shoulder.

Reprints

• in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #16 (December 1974)

Indexer Notes

Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

We the Jury (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Ruben Moreira

Inks

Ruben Moreira

Colors

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Letters

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Job Number

M-61

Synopsis

When a man on trial for murder suddenly finds himself within the jury room as a mental projection, he possesses one juror and argues forcefully for a second degree conviction so he will not be sent to the chair. What he doesn't know until after the verdict is read is that the other jurors actually wanted to acquit him.

Indexer Notes

Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

Man of History (Table of Contents: 5)

text story / 1.67 pages (report information)

Script

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Letters

typeset

Job Number

J-372

Indexer Notes

Job number suggests this is an unpublished inventory story or a reprint from an unknown source a year previous.

The Night of March 5th (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

Robert Q. Sale (signed)

Inks

Robert Q. Sale (signed)

Colors

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Letters

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Job Number

M-523

Synopsis

A spy steals a time machine that moves him forward one year. When people he knows react with fear when they see him, he sets the machine to take him back one year. As his boss brings in gunmen to liquidate him, he realizes his friends were afraid because he is dead one year hence.

Reprints

• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #174 ([circa 1980 - 1981])

Indexer Notes

Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Newspaper on page 3 is the Daily Bugle.

Wessler script per Nick Caputo from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.

Statement of Ownership (Table of Contents: 7)

statement of ownership / 0.5 page (report information)

Script

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Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

For 1 Oct 1956. Stan Lee, Editor; Martin Goodman, Managing Editor; Monroe Froehlich, Jr., Business Manager.

Mister Mason's Strange Problem (Table of Contents: 8)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Dick Giordano

Inks

Dick Giordano

Colors

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Letters

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Job Number

M-112

Synopsis

A man insults a fakir and is punished by gradually being removed from existence.

Reprints

• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #174 ([circa 1980 - 1981])

Indexer Notes

Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.