 "Marvel Tales" included among its contributors writer and editor-in-chief Stan Lee and such comics artists as Golden Age veterans Harry Anderson, Carl Burgos, Bill Everett, Fred Kida, Mike Sekowsky, Syd Shores, and Ogden Whitney, and, early in their careers, Dick Ayers, Gene Colan, Tony DiPreta, Mort Drucker, Russ Heath, Bernard Krigstein, Joe Maneely, Joe Sinnott, and Basil Wolverton, among others.It ran 67 issues, through #159 (Aug. 1957), ending with the collapse of Atlas's distributor, American News Company, and the subsequent restructuring known as the "Atlas Implosion.