Mystery Tales #29
"Up in the Air!" is a standout tale from Mystery Tales #29 (1955), a 10-cent comic where a desperate doctor’s plea to save a charity clinic takes a surreal turn when his five-dollar bill inexplicably transforms into five thousand. With art by Bob Powell and a striking cover by Carl Burgos, the story blends social realism with a touch of the uncanny, leaving readers wondering just how far a man’s hope can stretch.
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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.
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