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| Grade | Amount | Evidence | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.0 | $179.71 | PANEL_PROFITS · grade_6_0_valueguide | 1955-06-01 |
| RAW | $43.00 | PANEL_PROFITS · ungraded_valueguide | 1955-06-01 |
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CGC records 28 graded copies for Mystery Tales #30 (1955). Population is the number recorded by this grading source, not the total print run or all surviving copies.
The Boy Who Could Fly!
A boy out in the country has faith that he can fly because no one has ever told him that it wasn't possible. A show promoter observes him flying and wants to make him a star. As more people are exposed to advertising the boy encounters a great deal of ridicule and loses faith in his ability.
| StoryTitle2 = Strange Meeting | Writer2_1 = N/A | Letterer2_1 = Typeset | Editor2_1 = Stan Lee
| Appearing2 = **Featured Characters:** * Turner, Incorporated) ** David Turner) **Supporting Characters:** * Conquistadores) ** Juan Ponce de León) ** Unnamed Sentry
**Other Characters:** * Unnamed Hotel Clerk * Unnamed Gas Station Attendant * Gas Station Attendant's Wife **Races and Species:** * Humans) **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Earth ** United States of America *** Florida) **** Miami Beach **** Everglades ***** Fountain of Youth *** New York) **Items:** * Fountain of Youth
| Synopsis2 = An older man named David Turner decides to take a vacation in Miami Beach after working for many years in New York without a break. While on the road in Florida he accidently makes a wrong turn and his car ends up running out of gas.
David leaves his car and walks down the road until he spots a tent. There he meets two flamboyantly dressed men who he trades his watch to in exchange for some gas but instead they offer him a drink from a fountain. After drinking from the fountain he notices that he feels younger and learns one of the men is called Ponce de León. David gets the thought of bottling the water and selling it to people but before he can ask the men about it he finds himself back on the road in front of his car. Attempting to start it works and he makes his way to his hotel in Miami Beach.
There he gets some maps of the area an notices the road he took wasn't there. Traveling back out that way he stops at a gas station who's attendant informs him that there hasn't been a road that way since the Spanish first investigated the area and that legends say Ponce de León appears once a year and allows men to trade gold in exchange for a drink from the Fountain of Youth. Without another word David got in his car and left the area.
| StoryTitle3 = The Warning! | Writer3_1 = N/A | Penciler3_1 = Don Heck | Inker3_1 = Don Heck | Colorist3_1 = N/A | Letterer3_1 = N/A | Editor3_1 = Stan Lee
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| StoryTitle4 = The Lady Vanished | Writer4_1 = N/A | Penciler4_1 = John Forte | Inker4_1 = John Forte | Colorist4_1 = N/A | Letterer4_1 = N/A | Editor4_1 = Stan Lee
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| Synopsis4 = A spinster gets a valentine sent by a co-worker as a prank and winds up in seventh heaven.
| StoryTitle5 = Too Late! | Writer5_1 = N/A | Penciler5_1 = Sid Greene | Inker5_1 = Sid Greene | Colorist5_1 = N/A | Letterer5_1 = N/A | Editor5_1 = Stan Lee
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| StoryTitle6 = From Out of Nowhere | Writer6_1 = N/A | Penciler6_1 = Pete Tumlinson | Inker6_1 = Pete Tumlinson | Colorist6_1 = N/A | Letterer6_1 = N/A | Editor6_1 = Stan Lee
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| Notes = ===Publication Notes=== * "Strange Meeting" is reprinted as "The Fountain of Youth" in Strange Tales Vol 1 56. * "The Warning!" is reprinted in X-Men Vol 1 92. * "The Lady Vanished" is reprinted in Weird Wonder Tales Vol 1 8.
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Creative credits
Writers: N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A
Interior art: Dick Ayers, Don Heck, John Forte, Sid Greene, Pete Tumlinson
Color: N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A
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