"Someday It Will Open" | |
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Mystic | |
Title: | "Someday It Will Open" |
Volume: | 1 |
Number: | 61 |
Cover price: | .10 |
Cover date: | August, 1957 |
Publisher: | Marvel Comics |
Credits | |
Chief: | Stan Lee |
Cover artists: | Bill Everett |
Cover inker: | Bill Everett |
Cover colorist: | Stan Goldberg |
Editors: | Stan Lee |
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An anthropologist steals a "thought pod" from a native tribe and uses it to recreate himself at the age of twenty-one.
A hotel employee is the only one who perceives a ghost floor, number 13 that burned sixty years ago and was not rebuilt. When he resolves to steal the ghost's jewels, he plummets to his doom when the fire breaks out again and snaps the elevator cable.
A man buys an hourglass that makes time flow backwards when he tips it upside down, but when he tries to destroy it, he becomes trapped inside.
A scientist behind the iron curtain creates an air purifier to counteract the poison of his first invention.
When a sailor becomes lost at sea, he is saved by the ghost of his great grandfather, who was the captain of his own vessel.
A violent criminal is under the impression that his face is beginning to look like an animal after every time he hits a robbery victim. When he looks into a mirror, he panics and runs into the street where he is struck, not realizing it is a gimmick mirror.
"Someday It Will Open"[]
"Someday It Will Open" | |
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Title: | "Someday It Will Open" |
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Writers: | Unknown |
Pencilers: | Richard Doxsee |
Inkers: | Richard Doxsee |
Colorists: | Unknown |
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Editors: | Stan Lee |
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"The Thirteenth Floor"[]
"The Thirteenth Floor" | |
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Title: | "The Thirteenth Floor" |
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Writers: | Unknown |
Pencilers: | Bernard Baily |
Inkers: | Gene Fawcette |
Colorists: | Unknown |
Letterers: | Unknown |
Editors: | Stan Lee |
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"Mister Backwards!"[]
"Mister Backwards!" | |
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Title: | "Mister Backwards!" |
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Writers: | Unknown |
Pencilers: | Frank Bolle |
Inkers: | Frank Bolle |
Colorists: | Unknown |
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Editors: | Stan Lee |
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"Too Dangerous to Live"[]
"Too Dangerous to Live" | |
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Title: | "Too Dangerous to Live" |
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Writers: | Unknown |
Pencilers: | Carl Burgos |
Inkers: | Carl Burgos |
Colorists: | Unknown |
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Editors: | Stan Lee |
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"Travelling Tom"[]
"Travelling Tom" | |
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Title: | "Travelling Tom" |
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Writers: | Unknown |
Pencilers: | John Tartaglione |
Inkers: | John Tartaglione |
Colorists: | Unknown |
Letterers: | Unknown |
Editors: | Stan Lee |
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"The Strange Sea!"[]
"The Strange Sea!" | |
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Title: | "The Strange Sea!" |
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Writers: | Unknown |
Pencilers: | Alfonso Greene |
Inkers: | Alfonso Greene |
Colorists: | Unknown |
Letterers: | Unknown |
Editors: | Stan Lee |
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"The Face in the Mirror!"[]
"The Face in the Mirror!" | |
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Title: | "The Face in the Mirror!" |
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Writers: | Unknown |
Pencilers: | Joe Orlando |
Inkers: | Joe Orlando |
Colorists: | Unknown |
Letterers: | Unknown |
Editors: | Stan Lee |
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Notes & Trivia[]
- This is the final issues of the series. In 1957, Marvel publisher Martin Goodman shut down the Atlas distribution line in favor of the more economically feasible American News Distribution company. As such, all of the Atlas titles produced by Marvel at this time were discontinued.
- Cover coloring credit confirmed by Stan Goldberg.
- Gene Fawcette's inking credit on "The Thirteenth Floor" is unconfirmed.
- "Travelling Tom" was originally printed in Strange Tales of the Unusual #1, published in December, 1955 (Not to be confused with the Strange Tales anthology series).
- "The Strange Sea!" is reprinted in Crypt of Horror #34 by AC Comics in 2017.
Recommended Reading[]
- Adventure Into Fear Vol 1
- Adventures Into Terror Vol 1
- Astonishing Vol 1
- Beware Vol 1
- Mystery Tales Vol 1