Price history & market evidence
Price observations belong to this edition. Guide estimates, catalog references and completed sales are separate kinds of evidence.
| Grade | Amount | Evidence | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | $128.04 | PANEL_PROFITS · grade_4_0_valueguide | 1954-11-01 |
| RAW | $75.61 | PANEL_PROFITS · ungraded_valueguide | 1954-11-01 |
| 8.5 | $560.00 | ComicBase · catalog referencecatalog | Date not recorded |
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Graded population
CGC records 44 graded copies for Mystery Tales #23 (1954). Population is the number recorded by this grading source, not the total print run or all surviving copies.
Shrinko!
Two conmen sell bottles of Shrinko to everyone in New York, and to their great surprise, it actually works on buildings as well as people and now they are the only full size people left.
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| StoryTitle2 = The Burning Truth | Writer2_1 = | Penciler2_1 = | Inker2_1 = | Colorist2_1 = | Letterer2_1 = | Editor2_1 = | Synopsis2 = A man encounters a race of fire people living inside a volcano.
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| StoryTitle3 = Violence! | Writer3_1 = | Penciler3_1 = | Inker3_1 = | Colorist3_1 = | Letterer3_1 = | Editor3_1 = | Synopsis3 = A hunter's African steamer is wrecked by a sudden storm and he can't swim. He floats on a crate of Mambas until he sees part of the steamer is still afloat with a figure atop it. He makes for it, since the crate with the deadly snakes is breaking apart, and asks the figure to pull him up. He is roughly seized and stares into the face of the gorilla he was in the habit of regularly tormenting with his whip.
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| StoryTitle4 = Fit for a Corpse | Writer4_1 = | Penciler4_1 = Carl Hubbell | Inker4_1 = | Colorist4_1 = | Letterer4_1 = | Editor4_1 = | Synopsis4 = A criminal on the run ducks into a shroud maker's shop and, thinking him a tailor, asks for a fitting. He is shot dead by a police officer making his last stop an appropriate choice.
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| StoryTitle5 = The Madman! | Writer5_1 = | Penciler5_1 = | Inker5_1 = | Colorist5_1 = | Letterer5_1 = | Editor5_1 = | Synopsis5 = A man devises a new form of government where scientists rule, and when he goes into the future by a time machine developed from work of fellow scientists, he finds that he has become a tyrant.
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Creative credits
Interior art: Carl Hubbell
Source records & attribution
Panel Profits keeps each source identity attached to its edition record.
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GCD: 211814
PANEL PROFITS: 2425074