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Marvel Tales #104

Marvel · Series began 1949 · December 1951

Dates

Cover date
December 1951
Pages
36

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Russ Heath, Bill Everett, Basil Wolverton, Morris Weiss, Norman Steinberginks: Russ Heath, Bill Everett, Basil Wolverton, Morris Weiss, Norman Steinbergcolors: Stan Goldbergletters: Bill Everett, Basil Wolverton

Stories

  • Freddy's Friend! · 7 pages

    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.

  • The Letter · 2 pages
  • Gateway to Horror · 6 pages

    Two prospectors find sub-surface creatures preparing an attack upon the surface world.

  • The Murder Mirror! · 6 pages

    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.

  • I Saw Tomorrow! · 4 pages

    A Skynet-type story.

Reprinted in

Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Spellbound (1960), Voodoo (1961), Creepy Worlds (1962), Sinister Tales (1964), Weird Wonder Tales (1973), Basil Wolverton's Gateway to Horror (1988), The Life and Comics of Basil Wolverton (2014), Atlas Creator Collection (2026)

Run and key data from the Grand Comics Database (comics.org), CC BY-SA 4.0.

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