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Issue: Strange Worlds #4
Publication Date: June 1959
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Issues: #4 of 5 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Manvis Publications, 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: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in March 1959. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. All new stories in this issue are narrated in the first person unless otherwise specified.

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
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Manhunt on Mars!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Anton Volochek
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Journey to Jupiter!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Glenn Scott; Julie Scott
Synopsis: In the future the only planet closed to the others is Jupiter, surrounded by an impenetrable force field. A space pilot gets through the field by tempting the inhabitant's curiosity with a black box, which turns out to be empty.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-245
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Over the Moon

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Mr. Collins; Jim
Synopsis: A science fiction movie director gets some help from a real alien and flying saucer, but the film bombs when the footage of the saucer is dismissed as too phony-looking.
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From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #51 published October 1956
was Over the Moon [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: J-884
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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A Magician Walks Among Us!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Prof. Dolen ["Merlin"]; King Arthur
Synopsis: A time traveler journeys into the past seeking Merlin and ends up becoming Merlin.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-242
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the third person.
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The Man Without a Past!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A man working on a futuristic assembly line panics when he realizes that he has no memory. The factory foreman deactivates him, since this is a common malfunction of overly-advanced robots.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: T-243
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I Was the Changing Man!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Duncan Sloane; Emmerich Fabius; Vincent Stalwart; Alfonso Galvez
Synopsis: A man invents a machine that allows him to take over anyone's body and tries to use it to gain the perfect life, but finds that he cannot predict what misfortunes may befall the people he takes the place of.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: T-244
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Manhunt on Mars!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Anton Volochek
Synopsis: A dissident in a communist country escapes to Mars, but barely escapes from the hostile Martians. When he returns home he is a hero for his journey, and is able to escape to the West, where he warns them of the aliens, and explains that he convinced the communist leadership to go to Mars unarmed, hoping they will be killed.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: [T-241 ?]
Disclose Notes: Job number speculative based on other stories' number.

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