Price history & market evidence
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| Grade | Amount | Evidence | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | $49.00 | PANEL_PROFITS · grade_4_0_valueguide | 1955-07-01 |
| 6.0 | $180.27 | PANEL_PROFITS · grade_6_0_valueguide | 1955-07-01 |
| RAW | $68.19 | PANEL_PROFITS · ungraded_valueguide | 1955-07-01 |
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Graded population
CGC records 20 graded copies for Marvel Tales #136 (1955). Population is the number recorded by this grading source, not the total print run or all surviving copies.
Mystery of the Blocks
Parents on Venus are asked to loan their son to an unknowing adoptive couple on Earth for twenty years so that the boy may teach them advanced engineering techniques. In this way, the Venusians hope to prevent cultural degeneration when the people of Earth eventually make contact with them.
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| ReprintOf2 = Tales of Suspense Vol 1 32 | ReprintOfStory2 = 2
| StoryTitle3 = Ceiling...Zero | Writer3_1 = Stan Lee | Penciler3_1 = Ross Andru | Inker3_1 = Mike Esposito | Colorist3_1 = | Letterer3_1 = | Editor3_1 = | Synopsis3 = Men delivering medical supplies on a flight through a bad storm receive navigation direction from a higher power.
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| StoryTitle4 = The Thing That Wouldn't Stop | Writer4_1 = | Penciler4_1 = Ed Winiarski | Inker4_1 = Ed Winiarski | Colorist4_1 = | Letterer4_1 = | Editor4_1 = | Synopsis4 = A reporter interviews an inventor who designs a clock that can run off the energy produced by living humans but produces feedback that makes the reporter say 'tick tock' repeatedly.
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| StoryTitle5 = The Man from Nowhere | Writer5_1 = | Penciler5_1 = Dick Ayers | Inker5_1 = Ernie Bache | Colorist5_1 = | Letterer5_1 = Dick Ayers | Editor5_1 = | Synopsis5 = A homely man buys a magic kit and he finds he can do real magic when he summons an inhabitant from another dimension who does not consider him ugly. They talk for awhile and the man agrees to follow his guest back to his dimension.
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| StoryTitle6 = And There You Are! | Writer6_1 = | Penciler6_1 = Stanislav Robert Pawlowski | Inker6_1 = Stanislav Robert Pawlowski | Colorist6_1 = | Letterer6_1 = | Editor6_1 = | Synopsis6 = An electrical accident by a film crew on the site on Caesar's assassination switches Brutus with an actor in time. Brutus argues with the director that he tried to save Caesar and stories that he was one of the assassins are lies spread by his enemies.
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Creative credits
Writers: Stan Lee
Interior art: Pete Tumlinson, Ross Andru, Ed Winiarski, Dick Ayers, Stanislav Robert Pawlowski
Source records & attribution
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GCD: 12205
PANEL PROFITS: 2412503