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Issue: Man in Black #1 Public Domain
Publication Date: September 1957
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Issues: #1 of 4 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagHarvey
Brand: A Thrill AdventureView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher:
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 9 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Leon Harvey
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock:  
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Bob Powell
Inker(s): Bob Powell
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Feature(s): The Man In Black
Character(s): The Man in Black
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bob Powell ?
Penciller(s): Bob Powell
Inker(s): Bob Powell
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Feature(s): The Man in Black
Character(s): The Man in Black
First Line: Greetings! I am the Man in Black!
Synopsis: Fate helps an old man split a diamond perfectly.
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In Content Item: FlagThrill-O-Rama #1 published October 1965
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShocking Tales Digest #1 published October 1981
as Man in Black [Filler on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Man in Black #1 published January 1990
as Man in Black [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Brush Strokes

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bob Powell ?
Penciller(s): Bob Powell
Inker(s): Bob Powell
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Feature(s): The Man in Black
Character(s): The Man in Black
Synopsis: Fate helps Paul Prenz finally paint a real piece of art, but he is unable to repeat the feat and must return to commercial work.
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In Content Item: FlagShocking Tales Digest #1 published October 1981
as Brush Strokes [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Man in Black #1 published January 1990
as Brush Strokes [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Last appearance in Green Hornet #34.
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Second Chance

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bob Powell
Penciller(s): Bob Powell
Inker(s): Bob Powell
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
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In Content Item: FlagShocking Tales Digest #1 published October 1981
as Second Chance [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Man in Black #1 published January 1990
as Second Chance [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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The Hanging Thread

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bob Powell ?
Penciller(s): Bob Powell
Inker(s): Bob Powell
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Feature(s): The Man in Black
Character(s): The Man in Black
Synopsis: Humans and immortals debate what is stronger: fate or love.
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In Content Item: FlagShocking Tales Digest #1 published October 1981
as The Hanging Thread [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Man in Black #2 published July 1991
as The Hanging Thread [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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The Fly in the Ointment

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bob Powell ?
Penciller(s): Bob Powell
Inker(s): Bob Powell
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Feature(s): The Man In Black
Character(s): The Man in Black
Synopsis: Fate tells how a common fly (helped by Fate, of course) once thwarted a king and his torturer in their pursuit of a beautiful woman.
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In Content Item: FlagShocking Tales Digest #1 published October 1981
as The Fly in the Ointment [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagRecollections Sampler #1 published January 1991
as The Fly in the Ointment [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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Trouble in the Night

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Going Back

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
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Introducing the Weaver

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bob Powell ?
Penciller(s): Bob Powell
Inker(s): Bob Powell
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, historical
Feature(s): The Weaver
Character(s): The Weaver (narrator, introduction); Gracchus (a gladiator); Ledra (Gracchus' wife); Marcus (Ledra's Uncle); Crassius Livitcus (leader, death)
Synopsis: The wife of gladiator Gracchus urges him to rebel against Crassius and his outright thievery of the people's money. Gracchus kills Crassius, then flees with Ledra to her uncle's town where they will be safe. Unknown to anyone, on August 24, 79 A.D., that town, Pompeii, was to be destroyed by an eruption of a volcano.
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In Issue: FlagMen of Mystery Comics #92 published April 2014
In Content Item: FlagShocking Tales Digest #1 published October 1981
as The Gladiator [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Man in Black #2 published July 1991
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5

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