Price history & market evidence
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| Grade | Amount | Evidence | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.0 | $174.01 | PANEL_PROFITS · grade_6_0_valueguide | 1955-05-01 |
| 9.4 | $373.75 | PANEL_PROFITS · grade_9_4_valueguide | 1955-05-01 |
| RAW | $17.06 | PANEL_PROFITS · ungraded_valueguide | 1955-05-01 |
| 9.4 | $350.00 | ComicBase · catalog referencecatalog | Date not recorded |
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Graded population
CGC records 28 graded copies for Mystery Tales #29 (1955). Population is the number recorded by this grading source, not the total print run or all surviving copies.
Up in the Air!
A boy finds that his toy plane duplicates the kind of experiences that his real pilot father has on his test flights.
| StoryTitle2 = The Message | Writer2_1 = N/A | Penciler2_1 = Bernie Krigstein | Inker2_1 = Bernie Krigstein | Colorist2_1 = N/A | Letterer2_1 = Typeset | Editor2_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing2 = **Featured Characters:** * Prof. Sternhardy * Prof. Ivransen * British Historical Society) ** Roger Smythe) **Supporting Characters:** * Rama Jiz)
**Races and Species:** * Humans) * Ennead **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Earth ** Europe *** Norway **** Oslo ** Africa *** Egypt **** Alexandria) **** Agam-el-Nidra
| Synopsis2 = Three archeologists are called to Alexandria to look for the city of Agam-el-Nidra via a telegram. It is only after they discover the city and its secrets does the telegram reveal the name it was sent by, "Rama Jiz" which is the figure the archaeologists found the city treated like a god.
| StoryTitle3 = Mind Over Matter! | Writer3_1 = Bill Everett | Penciler3_1 = Bill Everett | Inker3_1 = Bill Everett | Colorist3_1 = N/A | Letterer3_1 = Bill Everett | Editor3_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing3 = **Featured Characters:** * Dr. Stevens
**Other Characters:** * Scientists ** Prof. Melton ** Several unnamed scientists **Races and Species:** * Humans) * Hamsters) **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Earth ** United States of America
| Synopsis3 = A scientist has a theory that mind can control matter so he attempts to prove it to others by making his own body disappear. When he succeeds he has misgivings about the kind of power this would give to those with criminal intent and so he tells his fellows that the whole thing was a hoax.
| StoryTitle4 = Honest Abe | Writer4_1 = N/A | Penciler4_1 = Bob Powell | Inker4_1 = Bob Powell | Colorist4_1 = N/A | Letterer4_1 = N/A | Editor4_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing4 = **Featured Characters:** * Dr. Abe Davis)
**Antagonists:** * G.B. Ferrick **Other Characters:** * Jim * Jim's Wife * Abraham Lincoln) * Mrs. Mercer * James Madison) * God) **Races and Species:** * Humans) **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Earth ** United States of America
| Synopsis4 = A doctor for the poor takes all the money he has, five dollars, and goes to plead his case for the charity clinic to the wealthy land owner who wants to buy up the plot and shut it down. The greedy man wants five thousand dollars, not five dollars, and the doctor is shocked to discover that when he hands the bill to the man it has become a five thousand dollar bill.
| StoryTitle5 = The Crooked Stick! | Writer5_1 = N/A | Penciler5_1 = John Forte | Inker5_1 = John Forte | Colorist5_1 = N/A | Letterer5_1 = N/A | Editor5_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing5 = **Featured Characters:** * Elmer Bittle)
**Antagonists:** * Marley * Howe **Other Characters:** * Several unnamed farmers * Unnamed Doctor **Races and Species:** * Humans) **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Earth ** United States of America
| Synopsis5 = The secret of a dowser's success in finding water is that his veins contain not blood, but water.
| StoryTitle6 = Two Faces Have I | Writer6_1 = N/A | Penciler6_1 = Art Peddy | Inker6_1 = Art Peddy | Colorist6_1 = N/A | Letterer6_1 = N/A | Editor6_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing6 = **Featured Characters:** * John "Johnny" Morton (Harry Norton)) **Supporting Characters:** * Gloria Bailey)
**Other Characters:** * Unnamed Store Clerk * Mr. Jordan * Peter Bailey) (Gloria's Brother) **Races and Species:** * Humans) **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Earth ** United States of America *** New York) **** New York City *** Detroit, Michigan *** Chicago, Illinois
| Synopsis6 = A man buys a mask so that he can talk to the girl he loves but when he admits to her that he is a fraud, and takes off the mask, he finds that his face has come to resemble the handsome mask.
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| Notes = ===Publication Notes=== * "Honest Abe" is reprinted in Chamber of Chills Vol 1 13. * "The Crooked Stick!" is reprinted in Crypt of Shadows Vol 1 14.
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Creative credits
Writers: N/A, N/A, Bill Everett, N/A, N/A, N/A
Interior art: Tom Scheuer, Bernie Krigstein, Bill Everett, Bob Powell, John Forte, Art Peddy
Color: N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A
Source records & attribution
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COMICBASE: comicbase:777980
GCD: 211820
PANEL PROFITS: 2425080