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Issue: Forbidden Worlds #72 Public Domain
Publication Date: November 1958
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Issues: #72 of 145 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagAmerican Comics Group
Brand: American Comics Group ACGView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Best Syndicated Features, Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Richard Hughes [as Richard E. Hughes]
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was ongoing
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The Strange Ones!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Ogden Whitney (signed)
Inker(s): Ogden Whitney (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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Pages: 1
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Dr. Martin's Marvelous Museum

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Forte (signed)
Inker(s): John Forte (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Eddy Brewster; Brenda Trent; Jed Hoffstra; Dr. Martin
First Line: You can step out of everyday life--right into the midst of the strangest adventures you dreamed of!
Synopsis: Eddy and Brenda have grown up as neighbours and friends. But Brenda wants someone courageous as a boyfriend and all-state quarterback Jeff takes her out as well. Brenda confuses her dates and all three go out together to the private closed house of Dr Martin. The Dr shows them his museum exhibits and, after Jed and Brenda have left, challenges Eddy to track down the Georgio tiara. Eddy visits the eras of the exhibits and finds the tiara defeating obstacles on the way. Eddy meets Jed and Brenda, Jed challenges Eddy but he now has courage and defeats Jed. Brenda is happy with her real man.
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Pages: 13
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Call in the Night

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): John W. Crane (Fire chief); Mr. Parkins
First Line: It happened on a frosty, clear night---it started with a telephone message---
Synopsis: Chief Crane receives a phone call advising of a fire at 346 Elm. When the fire equipment arrives they find that someone is inside, old man Parkins. The firemen save Mr Parkins. Later, when they are making out the fire report, Crane asks Parkins if he knows anyone called Danny, as he made the call. Parkins tells Crane that Danny is his son and that he always looks after him. Crane wonders why Danny is not present and Crane says that his son died in 1942. Further attempts to trace the phone caller are unsuccessful.
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In Content Item: FlagAdventures into the Unknown #142 published August 1963
as He's Watching Over Me! [Story on Interior Page(s)]retitled
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Pages: 1
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The Strange Ones!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
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Character(s): Glenn Parker; Olga Parker; Family doctor
First Line: Those lights! They're blinding me! I'm losing control!
Synopsis: Glenn Parker is driving home when two strange lights cause him to crash his car. The two lights are concerned that Glenn does not die. When Glenn wakes up he drives home. Over the following weeks Glenn is obsessed with building a strange machine. Olga is concerned about Glenn and calls the doctor who hypnotises Glenn. Glenn reveals that the machine is to give physical form to the lights who want to invade Earth. The doctor and Olga rush to the machine just as two aliens emerge. There is a brief fight and the aliens accidentally destroy the machine and disappear. The invasion is over.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): From Your Editor- To You!
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Letters from Tom Gould, Noreen Balogh, Dean Silverstone, Robert Ron, Jr., Robert Vasseur, Lawrence I. Wright, Lydia Bonsante, Anthony Steer, Dan Ryan, Paula Lucio, Richard Askey, David Brown, August I. Venter, and Dorothy Gates.
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The Ironclad Will!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Emil Gershwin
Inker(s): Emil Gershwin
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Jude Tyndal; Harry Tyndal; Laura; Philip Tyndal
First Line: Am I dreaming? It's... his face!
Synopsis: Jude Tyndal's heirs get exactly what they deserved, even if it is impossible to explain how he accomplished it.
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In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #225 published January 1988
as The Ironclad Will! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8

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