Marvel Tales
#104
(December 1951)
Marvel,
1949 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
Atlas [black & white]
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
The Thing in the Mirror!/Gateway to Horror!/I Saw Tomorrow!/Freddie's Friend!
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Russ Heath (signed)
- Inks
- Russ Heath (signed)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
-
in Marvel Tales (Bell Features, 1950 series) #100 ([circa early 1952])
-
Indexer Notes
Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.
Freddy's Friend!
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Bill Everett ?
- Pencils
- Bill Everett; Russ Heath (see notes)
- Inks
- Bill Everett; Russ Heath (see notes)
- Colors
- Bill Everett ?
- Letters
- Bill Everett
- Job Number
- 9023
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- An alien robot wishes to be a human being and convinces a greedy man to exchange places with him to learn the secret of where he acquires his riches from. When the alien's compatriots arrive on Earth to return him to his home planet they mistake the transformed human for the creature they are looking for and deposit him in an asylum for the delusional back home.
- Reprints
-
in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #30 - in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #93 ([1970?])
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #182 ([circa 1980 - 1981])
-
Indexer Notes
Splash panel drawn by Russ Heath.
The Letter
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Russ Heath (illustration)
- Inks
- Russ Heath (illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- 9170
Gateway to Horror
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Basil Wolverton ? (signed)
- Pencils
- Basil Wolverton (signed)
- Inks
- Basil Wolverton (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Basil Wolverton (signed)
- Job Number
- 9068
- Synopsis
- Two prospectors find sub-surface creatures preparing an attack upon the surface world.
- Reprints
- in Voodoo (L. Miller & Son, 1961 series) #8 ([no date])
- in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #43 (1964)
-
in Basil Wolverton's Gateway to Horror (Dark Horse, 1988 series) #1 (June 1988) - in The Life and Comics of Basil Wolverton (Fantagraphics, 2014 series) #2 - Brain Bats of Venus (1942–1952) (2019)
-
The Murder Mirror!
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Morris Weiss (signed)
- Inks
- Morris Weiss (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- 8755
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A man kills an old man for his chest containing a magic mirror which produces a reflection of him which steals and kills for him, but when the police catch up with him, the blood of the latest victim is on his hands. He tries to convince the police that the reflection from the mirror committed the crime but to no avail.
- Reprints
- in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #43 (1964)
- in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #9 (April 1975) which is reprinted
- in L'Incroyable Hulk (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #47 ([juin 1975]) [N&B [B&W]]
- in L'Étonnant Spider-Man (Editions Héritage, 1969 series) #60 (juin 1976)
-
Indexer Notes
Job number from www.atlastales.com.
I Saw Tomorrow!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Norman Steinberg (signed)
- Inks
- Norman Steinberg (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- 9119
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- A Skynet-type story.
- Reprints
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Thing in the Mirror!/Gateway to Horror!/I Saw Tomorrow!/Freddie's Friend!
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1.
Freddy's Friend!
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2.
The Letter
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3.
Gateway to Horror
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4.
The Murder Mirror!
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5.
I Saw Tomorrow!
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- Katie
- Dwayne Best
- Bill Borre
- Nick Caputo
- Keith Chandler
- Peter Croome
- Gregory Fischer
- Ethan Hoddes
- Tony R. Rose
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
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