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Issue: Strange Tales #54
Publication Date: January 1957
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Issues: #54 of 168 Issues (243 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Atlas [black & white]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Chipiden Publishing Corp.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US and standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Format Notes:  
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
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The Long Sleep!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #16 published ?
as The Long Sleep! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.
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A Witch by Night

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: Ben meets young Abby and discovers she's a witch. Abby falls in love with him and, afraid of her power, he marries her.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #156 published January 1975
as A Witch by Night [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-3
Disclose Notes: A story that shares plot elements with The Twilight Zone's "It's A Good Life".
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The Long Sleep!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A criminal thinks he has shot a night watchman and goes into suspended animation for forty years so that the police will forget about him, but when he comes out of the suspended animation, he reads in the old newspaper that his partner was the one who wounded the night watchman earlier in the evening and the police never suspected him.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-40
Disclose Notes: Wessler credit per biblio info published in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 26, No. 4, April 2015.
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Something Strange on the Sand!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: A man finds a city with a treasure that only appears once every several years and attempts to steal the treasure but fails.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #69 published January 1969
as Something Strange on the Sand! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #156 published January 1975
as Something Strange on the Sand! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K-962
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Trapped in the Dark!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: A swindler whose conscience is bothering him finds himself locked in an amusement park fun house where he sees visions of the people he has cheated.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K-931
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Robot Inventor

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Ned Carter; Mr. Jonas
Synopsis: A disgruntled janitor's obsessive effort to create a sweeping robot costs him his job and ends in failure, but only because he sees no use for a perpetual motion machine.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #32 published June 1955
was The Inventor [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]retitled
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: F-889
Disclose Notes: Original title: "The Inventor."
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The Man Who Talked!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: A ventriloquist loses his dummy overboard and the island natives are about to destroy it when the ventriloquist speaks for the dummy many miles away.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #209 published January 1985
as The Man Who Talked! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: K-947
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The Punishment of Paul Phillips!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: When a man testifying in court dreams of being executed due to circumstantial evidence he changes his attitude.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #69 published January 1969
as The Punishment of Paul Phillips! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-13

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