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2May 1952
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Mystery Tales #2

Marvel · May 1952

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Series
Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series)
Issue
#2
Publication date
May 1952
Key date
1952-05-00
Indicia publisher
20th Century Comic Corp.
Price
$0.10
Pages
36
Rating
Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0-cover1pencils: Sol Brodsky; inks: Chris Rule; colors: Stan Goldberg
2This Corpse Is Minecomic story5pencils: Dick Ayers; inks: Ernie Bache; letters: Dick AyersMr. Kovak
3The Cigartext story2letters: typeset
5The Crawling Horrorcomic story5pencils: Ogden Whitney; inks: Ogden Whitney; letters: Sam RosenDr. Frank Carson; Ben
8He Went for a Train-Ridecomic story4script: Carl Wessler; pencils: Bernie Krigstein; inks: Bernie KrigsteinPhilip Radly; Lorna Radly; Ed Greller
9The Gold Gorilla!comic story4script: Carl Wessler; pencils: Sol Brodsky; inks: Sol BrodskyPaul Cameron; Kip Murdok; Murnah
10The Rat Racecomic story5script: Bill Everett; pencils: Bill Everett; inks: Bill Everett; letters: Bill EverettMr. Tompson

Plus 8 pages of advertisements and other matter across 8 sequences, as published.

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