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Issue: World of Fantasy #16
Publication Date: February 1959
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Issues: #16 of 19 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Zenith Publishing Corp.
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: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in November 1958. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.

Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
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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 Series
Format Notes:  
Disclose Reprinted In5
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images2
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
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Prison, 2,000 A.D.

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Carl Burgos; Bob Forgione ? (see notes)
Inker(s): Carl Burgos; Bob Forgione ? (see notes)
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): John Fox
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: There is a stylization similarity to this cover and and the splash page to Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #2, the cover shows a solid stylistic similarity to the splash page in Tales to Astonish #2's story "I Spent Eternity in a Deep Freeze." That story is credited to Bob Forgione.

Toward center right, just this side of the control room, there's detailing that follows the curvature of the gated window for no reason at all, and otherwise is inconsistent with its own angles. Likewise, there's wainscoting, a view screen and some rivets just behind the blurb, on an angle and level inconsistent with the control room immediately above.
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Nightmare Planet

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Penciller(s): Joe Sinnott (signed)
Inker(s): Joe Sinnott (signed)
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Col. Ken Travers
Synopsis: Earth is terrified by the approach of a giant planet, but a military expedition finds that time moves more slowly on this planet, so they will not notice Earth.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagStrange Tales Annual #2 published September 1963
as Nightmare Planet [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-121
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. Set in the year 2500.
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Bird Talk

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Tony Tipple; Skeets Mulligan; Toodles Murphy
Synopsis: A meeting with a strange man gives a boy an unusual way of getting a pet bird, talking to birds.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Unknown Worlds #50 published October 1956
was Bird Talk [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-424
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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Arise, Oh Geni...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Inker(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Claude Hicks
Synopsis: A man with hay fever releases a hostile genie with plans of conquest from a lamp, but the genie contracts hay fever from his liberator. The genie tries to go to different areas, but after so long in the lamp, he has no resistances to germs and pollen. He decides he was better off in the lamp.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagVault of Evil #15 published November 1974
as Arise, Oh Geni... [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-123
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Worlds Within Worlds!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Penciller(s): Carl Burgos ?
Inker(s): Carl Burgos
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Paul Stratton; Terry Mason; Dr. Stone
Synopsis: A scientist is convinced that there are microscopic worlds inside microbes. He cannot find one, but if he'd kept looking then he would have found Earth.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagStrange Tales Annual #2 published September 1963
as Worlds Within Worlds! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: T-130
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the second person.
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Beware the Future!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Penciller(s): Al Williamson
Inker(s): Al Williamson
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Luther Zorn; Emma Zorn
Synopsis: A physicist invents a time machine, but when it shows an idyllic future it causes people to lose their motivation to improve the world.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Al Williamson Reader #[nn] published January 2008
as Beware the Future! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black-and-white reprint
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: T-111
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person.
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Prison 2000 A.D.

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Christopher Rule
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): John Fox
Synopsis: In the year 2000 criminals are reconditioned through virtual reality.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagStrange Tales Annual #2 published September 1963
as Prison, 2000 A.D. [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-115

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