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CATALOG RECORD

Mystery Tales #23

Marvel · Series began 1952 · November 1954

Dates

Cover date
November 1954
Pages
36

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Joe Maneely, Carl Burgos, Art Peddy, Mort Meskin, Bill Savage, Carl Hubbell, Ed Winiarskiinks: Carl Burgos, Joe Maneely, Art Peddy, George Roussos, Jack Abel, Carl Hubbell, Ed Winiarskicolors: Stan Goldbergletters: Artie Simek

Stories

  • Shrinko! · 5 pages

    Two conmen sell bottles of Shrinko to everyone in New York, and to their great surprise, it actually works on buildings as well as people and now they are the only full size people left.

  • South Pacific Mystery · 2 pages
  • The Burning Truth · 5 pages

    A man encounters a race of fire people living inside a volcano.

  • Violence! · 4 pages

    A hunter's African steamer is wrecked by a sudden storm and he can't swim. He floats on a crate of Mambas until he sees part of the steamer is still afloat with a figure atop it. He makes for it, since the crate with the deadly snakes is breaking apart, and asks the figure to pull him up. He is roughly seized and stares into the face of the gorilla he was in the habit of regularly tormenting with his whip.

  • Fit for a Corpse · 4 pages

    A criminal on the run ducks into a shroud maker's shop and, thinking him a tailor, asks for a fitting. He is shot dead by a police officer making his last stop an appropriate choice.

  • The Madman! · 5 pages

    A man devises a new form of government where scientists rule, and when he goes into the future by a time machine developed from work of fellow scientists, he finds that he has become a tyrant.

Reprinted in

Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Climax Adventure Comic (1962)

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