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Issue: Alarming Tales #1 Public Domain
Publication Date: September 1957
 
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Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagHarvey
Indicia Publisher: Western Tales, Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 20 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Leon Harvey (editor and vice-president); Alfred Harvey (president); Robert B. Harvey (vice-president and business manager)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S.
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Title Page
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Jack Kirby; Joe Simon (see notes)
Joe Simon
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Subject Matter
science fiction
Tommy Donnegan
What was it?.. Who built it?... Where was the chair taking him?
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Cover is a composite with main figure drawn by Joe Simon and background figures by Kirby.
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Tony Curtis (photo); Debbie Reynolds (photo); Elvis Presley (photo)
631 movie & TV star pictures 25¢
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Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Joe Simon ?
Jack Kirby (illustrations)
Jack Kirby; Joe Simon (illustrations)
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Subject Matter
Tommy Donnegan; Eddie Michaels; Max Hall
We're off!! Into the realm of the unknown!!!
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Contents page with scenes from interior stories.
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Everything you need to enjoy stamp collecting yours for only 25¢
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The Cadmus Seed!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby
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Howard Ferguson
Subject Matter
science fiction
Professor Horace Googer
Googer has created plant men.
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FlagShocking Tales Digest #1 published October 1981
as The Cadmus Seed! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Jack Kirby Reader #2 published January 2004
as The Cadmus Seed! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Simon and Kirby Library #[nn] published March 2013
as The Cadmus Seed [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Logan's Next Life!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby
Joe Simon
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Howard Ferguson
Subject Matter
science fiction
Tom Conway; Mary Conway; Rex Logan
Tom thinks his friend Rex has been reincarnated as a dog.
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FlagUnearthly Spectaculars #3 published March 1967
as Logan's Next Life [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagShocking Tales Digest #1 published October 1981
as Logan's Next Life [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagMen of Mystery Comics #47 published May 2004
as Logan's Next Life [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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The Fourth Dimension is a Many Splattered Thing!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby
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Howard Ferguson
Subject Matter
science fiction
Eddie Michaels; Max Hall
Eddie chases a burgler into the fourth dimension.
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FlagShocking Tales Digest #1 published October 1981
as The Fourth Dimension is a Many Splattered Thing! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAmerica's Greatest Comics #9 published July 2004
as The Fourth Dimension is a Many-Splattered Thing [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Simon and Kirby Library #[nn] published March 2013
as The Fourth Dimension Is a Many-Splattered Thing [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Subject Matter
Tim Calhoun
Start to play real music on the harmonica in 15 minutes flat!
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Men! Boys! Here are the best exciting adventure stories!
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3-way hurricane lantern
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Subject Matter
Like-new motor overhaul job $2.98
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The Last Enemy!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby
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Howard Ferguson
Subject Matter
science fiction
Hammond Drake; Rat leader; The General (a bulldog)
Drake travels to 2514 AD. He finds dead tigers in a field. A rat tells him that all humans were killed in an atomic war and that animals inherited the earth. Drake is knocked out and back at their lair they demand the secret of making atom bombs. Suddenly the lair is attacked knocking Drake out. He wakes up in a bed with a dog, fox and bear at his side. The General enters the room and tells him that only rats want to continue fighting, everyone else wants peace. Drake gives him the secret of atomic bombs. Drake travels back to the present hoping that dogs will be better than rats.
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FlagShocking Tales Digest #1 published October 1981
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FlagThe Simon and Kirby Library #[nn] published March 2013
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Miscellaneous
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In some ways, this story anticipates Kirby's later Kamandi strip, as it features a future world populated by talking dogs and rats.
Sealed Doom

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
superhero
The Black Cat
Rick Horne; The Black Cat [Linda Turner]; Charlie Niles
Linda and Rick are summoned to police headquarters to identify a dead actress.
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Blind Fury

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
superhero
The Black Cat
Edward Joliffe; The Black Cat [Linda Turner]; C. B. de Pille; Rick Horne
A press agent has been murdered at the studio.
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Donnegan's Daffy Chair

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby
?
Howard Ferguson
Subject Matter
science fiction
Timothy Donnegan; Sam; Frank
Donnegan sits in an inventor's fancy chair and launches it.
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FlagShocking Tales Digest #1 published October 1981
as Donnegan's Daffy Chair [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Simon and Kirby Library #[nn] published March 2013
as Donnegan's Daffy Chair [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Automatic firing tripod machine gun
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Amazing precision miniature secret camera
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Subject Matter
Kajar (photo)
Magician tells all!
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Credits
George Jowett
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Subject Matter
George Jowett (photo); John Sill (photo); Tony Pascarella (photo); Jim Norman (photo)
How to gain up to 50 lbs. of mighty muscles!
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Yogi Berra Homers in the 9th - Wins Big Game!

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Yogi Berra
Yogi Berra tells kids how they can get gifts by selling White Cloverine Brand Salve.
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