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CATALOG RECORD

Mystery Tales #41

Marvel · Series began 1952 · May 1956

Dates

Cover date
May 1956
Pages
36

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Bill Everett, Carl Burgos, Mort Drucker, John Romita, Ed Winiarski, Kurt Schaffenberger, Sol Brodsky, Paul Reinmaninks: Bill Everett, Carl Burgos, Mort Drucker, John Romita, Ed Winiarski, Kurt Schaffenberger, Sol Brodsky, Paul Reinmancolors: Stan Goldbergscript: Carl Wessler

Stories

  • Out of the Darkness · 4 pages

    Leonardo Da Vinci builds a spacecraft and sends it off to populate an entire planet with robots.

  • The Mystery of the Doomed Derelict! · 4 pages

    A cruel sea captain is cursed until he can find a crew that will serve under him willingly and respect him but the leopard seems unable to change his spots.

  • The Man in the Mirror! · 4 pages

    When a timid fellow buys a mirror at an auction, it turns him into a real man.

  • While the Town Sleeps! · 3 pages

    The statue of the Dutch boy plugs the hole in the dike with his finger.

  • New Century · 2 pages
  • Behind the Mask · 4 pages

    When a man tries to use a handsome mask to get rich women to marry him they keep dissolving as he proposes. When he has a change in attitude and tries to help a poor girl, he is honest with her that he is only wearing a mask, but when he removes it he finds his homely face has now come to resemble the handsome mask.

  • This Primitive Planet! · 4 pages

    A new metal worker at the shop builds a flying saucer out of scraps during his spare time to leave Earth.

Characters

Leonardo da Vinci

Reprinted in

Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Creepy Worlds (1962), Sinister Tales (1964), Uncanny Tales (1963), Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Astounding Stories (1966), Where Monsters Dwell (1970), Vault of Evil (1973)

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