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Mystery Tales 41
Charlton Tales
Title Profile
Curated Charlton tales, timelines, and cover art notes.
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
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Bill Everett pencils and inks signed
- Contributions
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Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Cover Creator Credit
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.
Stories
Out of the Darkness
Credits
Mort Drucker pencils and inks unsigned
Contributors:
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information
Notes: Features Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519).
The Mystery of the Doomed Derelict!
Credits
John Romita pencils and inks signed
Contributors:
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information
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!
Credits
Ed Winiarski pencils unsigned
Ed Winiarski inks guess
Contributors:
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information
While the Town Sleeps
Credits
Kurt Schaffenberger pencils and inks unsigned
Contributors:
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information
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
Credits
Credits not yet documented
Contributors:
Tom Lammers: Story Information
Tom Lammers: Story Information
Behind the Mask
Credits
Jim McLaughlin pencils attributed
Sol Brodsky inks attributed
Contributors:
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information
This Primitive Planet!
Credits
Paul Reinman pencils signed
Paul Reinman inks guess
Contributors:
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.: Creator Credit
Tom Lammers: Story Information
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