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Mystery Tales 41

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Published March 1952 – August 1957
Issue Numbers 1 – 54
Total Issues 54
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Issue Overview

Mystery Tales #41 was published by 20th Century Comic Corp. in May 1956. It is part of the Mystery Tales series, which ran from March 1952 to August 1957.

Cover credits include Bill Everett.

Atlas Tales indexes 7 stories for this issue, including "Out of the Darkness." Indexed story credits include Mort Drucker and John Romita, among others.

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Issue Information
Cover Date
May 1956
Indicia Frequency
monthly
Indicia Publisher
20th Century Comic Corp.
 
Cover Titles
Behind The Mask!
The Man In The Mirror!
Farewell To The Sun!
 
Cover Credits
Bill Everett pencils and inks signed
 
Contributions
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Cover Creator Credit

Stories

Out of the Darkness

Job # J-243
Pages 4
Type art
Credits
Mort Drucker pencils and inks unsigned
Contributors:
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information
Notes: Features Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519).

The Mystery of the Doomed Derelict!

Job # J-242
Pages 4
Type art
Credits
John Romita pencils and inks signed
Contributors:
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information
Notes: Features a sea captain named Josiah Wedgwood; no relation to the English potter Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795).

The Man in the Mirror!

Job # J-188
Pages 4
Type art
Credits
Ed Winiarski pencils unsigned Ed Winiarski inks guess
Contributors:
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information

While the Town Sleeps

Job # J-56
Pages 3
Type art
Credits
Kurt Schaffenberger pencils and inks unsigned
Contributors:
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information
Notes: Inspired by the story of the "hero of Haarlem," the little Dutch boy with his finger in the dike, first told in Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge (1865).

New Century

Job # J-391
Pages 1
Type text
Credits
Credits not yet documented
Contributors:
Tom Lammers: Story Information

Behind the Mask

Job # J-203
Pages 4
Type art
Credits
Jim McLaughlin pencils attributed Sol Brodsky inks attributed
Contributors:
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information

This Primitive Planet!

Job # J-137
Pages 4
Type art
Credits
Paul Reinman pencils signed Paul Reinman inks guess
Contributors:
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information
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