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Issue: World of Fantasy #18
Publication Date: June 1959
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Issues: #18 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 March 1959. 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
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Xom! The Menace from Outer Space!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Christopher Rule
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Xom; Philip Lindsey
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Creatures Who Captured Earth!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Penciller(s): Don Heck
Inker(s): Don Heck
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): John Warren
Synopsis: Aliens come to Earth and give humans the technology to make war and work unneccessary. One man is suspicious, and proves that they were only softening up humanity for an invasion.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-252
Disclose Notes: This story is retold in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #86 (July 1961) as "Beware of Meeks Bringing Gifts!" drawn by Jack Kirby.
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The Party

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Mr. Braggle
Synopsis: A salesman trying to unload some oil stocks thinks that he’s found a rich mark, but instead walks into a party of talking dogs.
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From Content Item: FlagMystical Tales #2 published August 1956
was The Party [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: J-959
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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The Clock Strikes Never!

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: science fiction
Character(s): Frank Hanes; Fate
Synopsis: A bitter inventor steals the time machine he invented for his company and some money and escapes to the future. The police of the future are waiting for him, so he goes into the past, but the machine disintegrates and he becomes young again, re-emerging with no memory and the opportunity to make a better choice.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: T-239
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To Build a Robot!

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): Luther Worthington; Dexter Scott
Synopsis: A young engineer attempts to acquire funding from a wealthy industrialist in order to build an android. The industrialist is secretly an android himself, who dissuades the young man in order to discourage competition from other androids.
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In Content Item: FlagTomb of Darkness #11 published November 1974
as To Build a Robot! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: T-237
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the second person.
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The Man Who Talks to the Stars

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Penciller(s): John Forte (signed)
Inker(s): John Forte (signed)
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Hank Johnson; Freddy; XR79B
Synopsis: A reporter interviews a man who claims to be able to communicate with other worlds, but he disappears when he realizes that he accidentally visited a primitive world.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: T-232
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Xom! The Menace from Outer Space!

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): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Xom; Philip Lindsey
Synopsis: A group of human explorers are asked by aliens to help them destroy a monster, but the monster is harmless and the aliens are really ivory hunters.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: T-231
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. This story is set in the year 2744.

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