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142January 1956
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Marvel Tales #142

Marvel · January 1956

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Series
Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series)
Issue
#142
Publication date
January 1956
Key date
1956-01-00
Indicia publisher
Marvel Comics Inc.
Price
$0.10
Pages
36
Rating
Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0It Wouldn't Let Go!cover1pencils: Sol Brodsky; inks: Sol Brodsky, Carl Burgos; colors: Stan Goldberg
1The Vanishing Boycomic story5script: Carl Wessler; pencils: Manny Stallman; inks: Manny Stallman
2The Messagetext story2letters: typeset
3The Man Who Shrunkcomic story4pencils: Bernie Krigstein; inks: Bernie Krigstein
4Man On Mars!comic story5pencils: Paul Reinman; inks: Paul Reinman
5It Wouldn't Let Gocomic story4script: Carl Wessler; pencils: Art Peddy; inks: Bernard Baily, Jack Abel
6The Thing In the Crate!comic story5script: Paul S. Newman; pencils: Dick Ayers; inks: Dick Ayers; letters: Dick Ayers

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