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| Grade | Amount | Evidence | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | $420.32 | PANEL_PROFITS · grade_4_0_valueguide | 1953-03-01 |
| RAW | $199.00 | PANEL_PROFITS · ungraded_valueguide | 1953-03-01 |
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CGC records 65 graded copies for Mystery Tales #9 (1953). Population is the number recorded by this grading source, not the total print run or all surviving copies.
The Specimen!
A scientist plots to use a mermaid from Atlantis to gain world renown and so he lies to her that he loves her until he can build an escape-proof tank. Unfortunately for him, she has the exact same intentions for him and drags him down to Atlantis so they can use him as a specimen to model how human males appear in order to create an invasion force.
| Appearing1 = **Featured Characters:** * Professor Carl Melton) * Miriam **Supporting Characters:** * **Antagonists:** * **Other Characters:** * **Races and Species:** * Humans) * Fish-Men
* Mermaids
**Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:**
* Atlantis
**Items:** * **Vehicles:** *
| StoryTitle2 = Hunger | Writer2_1 = | Penciler2_1 = Ben Brown | Inker2_1 = | Colorist2_1 = | Letterer2_1 = | Editor2_1 = | Synopsis2 = A butcher poisons his ex-partner's meat locker in order to drive him out of business but then comes back later to make sure he did not leave any evidence behind and gets himself locked in. Over the course of several days he waits for someone to come and let him out, but no one comes. He resists the temptation to eat the meat and eventually starves. When his body is found the owner wonders why he did not eat the meat since the inspector had declared it unfit and made him replace the entire locker with fresh stock.
| Appearing2 = **Featured Characters:** * **Supporting Characters:** * **Antagonists:** * **Other Characters:** * **Realities:** * **Locations:** * **Items:** * **Vehicles:** *
| StoryTitle3 = Ashes to Ashes! | Writer3_1 = | Penciler3_1 = | Inker3_1 = | Colorist3_1 = | Letterer3_1 = | Editor3_1 = | Synopsis3 = A woman burns her uncle to death before learning that the directions to his fortune are tattooed in a map upon his back.
| Appearing3 = **Featured Characters:** * Helen **Supporting Characters:** * George **Antagonists:** * **Other Characters:** * **Races and Species:** * Humans) **Realities:** * **Locations:** * **Items:** * **Vehicles:** *
| StoryTitle4 = The Man in the Morgue | Writer4_1 = | Penciler4_1 = | Inker4_1 = | Colorist4_1 = | Letterer4_1 = | Editor4_1 = | Synopsis4 = A hoodlum spends his last buck for a physic reading and is told that his luck will change. After spending the night in an alley with nothing to eat an elderly man approaches him and he strangles him in order to rob him. The cops give chase and gun him down. The police wonder why the elderly man was in such a run down area and look through his papers to discover he was a lawyer looking for the hoodlum who killed him in order to inform him that he had just come into a large inheritance.
| Appearing4 = **Featured Characters:** * Harry Gluck) **Supporting Characters:** * Thomas Blake_(Earth-616)) **Other Characters:** * Policemen **Races and Species:** * Humans)
| StoryTitle5 = Lost! | Writer5_1 = | Penciler5_1 = | Inker5_1 = | Colorist5_1 = | Letterer5_1 = | Editor5_1 = | Synopsis5 = Criminals hide loot in a cave and one is arrested and serves a jail sentence of twenty years. When he is released he goes back to the cave and shoots the man and woman who were lost in there for twenty years, but their son kills him.
| Appearing5 = **Featured Characters:** * **Supporting Characters:** * **Antagonists:** * **Other Characters:** * **Races and Species:** * Humans) **Realities:** * **Locations:** * **Items:** * **Vehicles:** *
| Notes = * "The Specimen!" was reprinted in Chamber of Chills Vol 1 18/ * "Hunger" was reprinted in Vault of Evil Vol 1 22. * "Ashes to Ashes!" was reprinted in Crypt of Shadows Vol 1 21. * "The Man in the Morgue" was reprinted in Vault of Evil Vol 1 23. * "Lost" was reprinted in Vault of Evil Vol 1 22. | Trivia = | Recommended = | Links =
Creative credits
Interior art: Joe Maneely, Ben Brown
Source records & attribution
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