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Publisher: Marvel

Title: Mystery Tales
Issue: 47
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: November 1956
Volume: 1
Contributors: Editor: Stan Lee

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Mystery Tales 47
Owner: gojira

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Story Title: Something Strange about Smithtown! - cover
Pages:1
Pencils:Carl Burgos
Inks:Carl Burgos
Colors:Stan Goldberg
Letters:typeset
Genre:science fiction


Story Title: The Man with No Face! - comic story
Pages:4
Pencils:Robert Q. Sale (signed)
Inks:Robert Q. Sale (signed)
Genre:fantasy
Synopsis:A mind-reading detective pursues a criminal until he falls in love with his daughter and resolves to turn himself in.


Story Title: At the Stroke of Midnight! - comic story
Pages:4
Pencils:Reed Crandall
Inks:Reed Crandall
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.


Story Title: The King of the Lions - text story
Pages:2
Pencils:Syd Shores (illustration)
Inks:Syd Shores (illustration)
Letters:typeset


Story Title: The Only Woman! - comic story
Pages:4
Pencils:Herb Familton
Inks:Herb Familton
Genre:fantasy
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.


Story Title: A Knock at the Door - comic story
Pages:3
Pencils:Bob Powell
Inks:Bob Powell
Genre:fantasy
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.


Story Title: Something Strange about Smithtown! - comic story
Pages:4
Pencils:Joe Certa
Inks:Joe Certa
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.


Story Title: When They Wake Up! - comic story
Pages:4
Pencils:Steve Ditko (signed)
Inks:Steve Ditko (signed)
Genre:fantasy
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.


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