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Marvel Tales 131

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Published August 1949 – August 1957
Issue Numbers 93 – 159
Total Issues 67
Continued From Marvel Mystery Comics
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Marvel Tales #131 (1955) | Atlas Tales Cover Image
Issue Information
Cover Date
February 1955
Indicia Frequency
monthly
Indicia Publisher
Marvel Comics, Inc.
 
Cover Titles
Five Fingers!
 
Cover Credits
Sol Brodsky pencils guess
Carl Burgos inks guess
 
Contributions
Banks Robinson: Cover Image
Frank Wilmot: Cover Image
Nick Caputo: Cover Creator Credit

Issue Overview

Marvel Tales #131 was published by Marvel Comics, Inc. in February 1955. It is part of the Marvel Tales series, which ran from August 1949 to August 1957.

Cover credits include Sol Brodsky and Carl Burgos.

Atlas Tales indexes 6 stories for this issue, including "The Man Who Bought A Dingbat." Indexed story credits include Bill Everett and Paul Hodge, among others. The current cover scan may need replacement.

Stories

F-831 The Man Who Bought A Dingbat Page 1
+4 Images

The Man Who Bought A Dingbat

Job # F-831
Pages 5
Type art
Credits
Bill Everett pencils and inks unsigned Bill Everett letters attributed
Contributors:
the stikman: Creator Credit
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
the stikman: Story Scans (5)
Notes: Another example of Everett's combining cartooney elements with "realistic" textures and Chiaroscuro techniques.
- the stikman

The Journey!

Credits
Credits not yet documented
Job # B-213
Pages 2
Type text

Five Fingers

Credits
Paul Hodge pencils and inks signed
Contributors:
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Job # F-461
Pages 5
Type art

The Rookie!

Credits
Werner Roth pencils and inks unsigned
Contributors:
Ger Apeldoorn: Creator Credit
John Kaminski: Creator Credit
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Job # F-465
Pages 4
Type art
Notes: In this story, a young man practices to try-out as a baseball pitcher. He trains himself until he can throw a ball through a tree, but then decides not to risk hurting the catcher and walks away. A strangely downbeat story, that is even stranger, because in some of the panels where he throws the ball (or a rock, as in the splash page) the projectile disappears behind the next panel in a very unrealistic looking way. It's probably intentional, but the way it is done -- as if the panel is pasted over the existing drawing of the ball -- makes it look as if something was changed in the story.

Farewell-Moon

Credits
Howie Post pencils and inks signed (Signed on page 2)
Contributors:
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Job # F-390
Pages 4
Type art

While Death Waits

Credits
Stan Lee script attributed Gene Colan pencils and inks signed
Contributors:
Ger Apeldoorn: Creator Credit
Job # F-498
Pages 5
Type art
Notes: Mine Workers.

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