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| Grade | Amount | Evidence | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|
| RAW | $55.00 | PANEL_PROFITS · ungraded_valueguide | 1954-03-01 |
| 4.0 | $104.70 | PANEL_PROFITS · grade_4_0_valueguide | 1954-03-01 |
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Graded population
CGC records 32 graded copies for Mystery Tales #18 (1954). Population is the number recorded by this grading source, not the total print run or all surviving copies.
The Lonely Dungeon
A reporter receives a call from an old man in Austria who wishes him to come to castle Frankenstein if he wants to know the truth about rumors that Dr. Frankenstein did not create the monster. When he arrives the old man tells him that the monster instead created Dr. Frankenstein and that he created the original monster out of reporters like him.
| ReprintOf2 = Spellbound Vol 1 4 | ReprintOfStory2 = 2 | StoryTitle2 = Peril from the Cave | Penciler2_1 = Carl Burgos | Inker2_1 = Carl Burgos | Colorist2_1 = N/A
| StoryTitle3 = Into the Fourth Dimension | Writer3_1 = N/A | Penciler3_1 = Gene Colan | Inker3_1 = Gene Colan | Colorist3_1 = N/A | Letterer3_1 = N/A | Editor3_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing3 = **Featured Characters:** * Horace **Supporting Characters:** * Earth Army ** General Thorn ** Numerous unnamed soldiers **Antagonists:** * Jupiter Army ** Commander Kruk ** Dr. Frax ** Numerous unnamed robots **Other Characters:** * Numerous time displaced Native Americans * Numerous time displaced raiders of Ghengi Khan * Genghis Khan * Numerous time displaced soldiers or Nazi Germany * Adolf Hitler * Numerous time displaced soldiers of the People's Republic of China **Races and Species:** * Jupiterian Robots * Humans) * Horses **Realities:** * Earth-Unknown **Locations:** * Earth * Jupiter) **Items:** * Horace's Time Machine
**Events:** * World War I * World War II * Korean War
| Synopsis3 = In 1992 the war between Earth and Jupiter is stalemated. Horace refuses to work on weapons of war and builds a time machine. When his boss learns of this Horace is considered a traitor and placed in a prison cell. Agents of Jupiter raid the lab Horace was working in and steal all new weapons as well as Horace's machine. When they return to Jupiter and turn it on all of Earth's previous combatants emerge and defeat the aliens.
| StoryTitle4 = Up! | Writer4_1 = N/A | Penciler4_1 = Vince Colletta | Inker4_1 = Vince Colletta | Colorist4_1 = N/A | Letterer4_1 = N/A | Editor4_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing4 = **Featured Characters:** * Joe Kirk)
**Antagonists:** * Mike Storm)
**Races and Species:** * Humans) **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Earth ** United States of America
**Vehicles:** * Spider-Jet
| Synopsis4 = Mike sabotages Joe so he can test pilot a new jet plane. Joe survives the first attempt but realizes Mike is likely to try again. Mike shoves Joe into a jet engine so he can take his place. Mike discovers a note inside indicating Joe's revenge from beyond the grave by designed a jet plane that only goes in one direction, up.
| StoryTitle5 = The Graveyard! | Writer5_1 = N/A | Penciler5_1 = Dick Ayers | Inker5_1 = Dick Ayers | Colorist5_1 = N/A | Letterer5_1 = Dick Ayers | Editor5_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing5 = **Featured Characters:** * Reed * Dugger
**Antagonists:** * Elephant **Other Characters:** * Unnamed Game Warden **Races and Species:** * Humans) * Birds ** Vultures) * Elephants * Ghosts **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Earth ** Africa
| Synopsis5 = A ghost elephant leads a pair of hunters into a pit of quicksand.
| StoryTitle6 = Missing Persons! | Writer6_1 = N/A | Penciler6_1 = Werner Roth | Inker6_1 = Werner Roth | Colorist6_1 = N/A | Letterer6_1 = N/A | Editor6_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing6 = **Featured Characters:** * Unnamed Alien **Supporting Characters:** * "John" a human) * "John's Wife" a human) **Antagonists:** * Bum **Other Characters:** * Police Commissioner Brady * Bartender * Bum's Friend **Races and Species:** * Unidentified alien species * Humans) * Flies * Cats **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Earth ** United States of America
| Synopsis6 = Aliens from space are kidnapping humans to send back to their homeplanet for study in order to use the information gathered for conquest.
| Solicit =
| Notes = ===Publication Notes=== * "The Graveyard!" is reprinted in Vault of Evil Vol 1 15. * "Missing Persons!" is reprinted in Chamber of Chills Vol 1 13.
| Trivia = | Recommended = | Links =
Creative credits
Writers: N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A
Interior art: Tony DiPreta, Carl Burgos, Gene Colan, Vince Colletta, Dick Ayers, Werner Roth
Color: N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A
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COMICBASE: comicbase:777969
GCD: 211809
PANEL PROFITS: 2425068