Mystery Tales #8 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1953

About Mystery Tales #8

Bill Everett cover. Paul Reinman art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: Killer in the Streets!

Pencils: Bill Everett

Inks: Bill Everett

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Notes: Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.

STORY DETAILS

(5 Stories)

Title: The Madman!

Characters: George Wright; Henry Roscoe; Helen Wright

Synopsis: A serious actor, portraying Hamlet, sees his star begin to lose some lustre when nepotism rears its head and the producer's cousin is made his understudy. The understudy proceeds to sabotage the actor to the point where he accidentally kills the actor's wife by mistake. Driven mad by his loss, the actor kills the understudy, finally giving him the perfect part to play, as we see his decapitated head being used as Yorick's skull in the play.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Stan Lee ? (see notes)

Pencils: Tony DiPreta (signed)

Inks: Tony DiPreta (signed)

Notes: Per Ger Apeldoorn via atlastales.com: "Unsigned, but the subject matter, the Shakespeare opening, the use of `thru' instead of `through', the length of the story suggest it could be a Stan Lee story. The job number is iffey, though. B-685/6 and 7 are all Al Jaffee stories. B-689/90/91/92 and 93 are all still missing, but B-694 is a signed Stan Lee story: B-694 Adventures Into Terror #16 My Name Is Death!"

Title: Danger - Quicksand!

Characters: Slade Lansing; The Hermit; general store keeper

Synopsis: A thief decides to lay low in a small town and learns that an old hermit miser has a fortune in his shack somewhere in the dangerous swamp. He lets The Hermit find a pair of new shoes with soles that he's coated with phosphorescent paint. That night, he proceeds to follow The Hermit to his shack and kills him, taking all the money. On his way out of the swamp, he becomes trapped in quicksand. As he's sinking, he realizes his fatal error. Instead of the luminous footprints, he's been fooled by the light of fireflies.

Pages: 2.000

Pencils: Russ Heath (illustration)

Inks: Russ Heath (illustration)

Letters: typeset

Title: A Killer in the Street

Characters: Detective Steve Braddock; Mrs. Christine Braddock; the Chief

Synopsis: A police detective is obsessed with a serial killer whose victims are all young pretty women in red dresses. When his wife buys a red dress, he insists that she take it back and she reluctantly agrees. Working late on the case, he has no time to go home and they agree to meet downtown for dinner. He sees she's wearing the red dress after all and flies into a rage. Too late, she realizes that he is the killer.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Art Wallace ? (signed) ; (see notes)

Pencils: Paul Reinman (signed)

Inks: Paul Reinman ?; Art Wallace ? (signed); (see notes)

Notes: Cover story. Nick Caputo suspects the Wallace signature may be for script, not inks, since he is aware of an Art Wallace who presumably wrote some comic scripts before going in television.

Title: This House Is Haunted!

Characters: Adam Benson; Josiah Benson; Hank; Lem

Synopsis: Josiah Benson's son Adam inherits his dilapidated property where four squatters play poker. Adam gives them notice, to no avail, because they know the place is haunted and unrentable. They tell Adam that his father was crazy. (The place was like a Hotel California: guests went in but not out.) Skeptical, Adam searches, despite strange noises and is killed by several creatures, chained and devolved humans that were originally Josiah's guests. Then we learn that the squatters are ghosts, having been similarly killed, and who know they'll soon have a fifth player joining them soon.

Pages: 6.000

Pencils: Ed Winiarski (signed)

Inks: Ed Winiarski (signed)

Title: The Wooden Man

Characters: Chick Black; a little girl; Aggie the babysitter; Bill and his girl friend; Mr. Monroe; John the guard; two young boys and their mother

Synopsis: Chick Black is a midget who looks like a wooden dummy. His modus operandi is to let people find him and take him in, whereupon he robs them, using his unique appearance and size to elude capture. On his latest heist, Chick shoots and kills a guard. Escaping to a train, Chick is found amongst the luggage by two boys who argue over ownership of the dummy. The mother suggests that whoever guesses what the toy is made of, wood or sawdust, gets to keep it. Using a hacksaw, the mother prepares to use it as Chick starts to sweat. The last panel asks, "What would you do if you were in Chick's place?"

Pages: 5.000

Pencils: Bill Benulis ?

Inks: Bill Benulis ?; Jack Abel ?

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	3	6	4	10	3	7	2	3	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	45
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Total	1	0	1	0	1	2	2	3	7	4	10	3	7	2	3	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	49

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