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Issue: Amazing Adventures #2
Publication Date: July 1961
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Issues: #2 of 6 Issues (8 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Atlas Magazines, Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/06/1961
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 5 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in April 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements (pages 2, 9, 15, 19, 25, 27, 33-36 of comic including inside front cover, inside back cover and back cover).

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 In6
Disclose Reprinted From1
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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This is Manoo! The Thing That Hid on Earth!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Manoo; Jones
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Fantasy Omnibus #[nn] [Steve Ditko cover] published August 2007
as This Is Manoo! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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I Led the Strange Search for Manoo!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Manoo; Billy Jones; Mr. Miller
Synopsis: A college student aids an alien policeman hunt down an alien criminal hiding on earth, or is it the other way around?
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Fantasy Omnibus #[nn] [Steve Ditko cover] published August 2007
as I Led the Strange Search for Manoo! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: V-186
Disclose Notes: This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (7 pp) and part two—"The Secret of Manoo!" (6 pp).
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The Comic

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Stan Wepp
Synopsis: A bored television comedian is mysteriously transported back to the small mining town and small theatres that he loves.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Fantasy Omnibus #[nn] [Steve Ditko cover] published August 2007
as The Comic [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Unknown Worlds #45 published May 1956
was The Comic [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: J-214
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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The World Below!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Dr. Anthony Droom [later retroactively renamed Doctor Druid], Ramu
Synopsis: Dr Droom defeats an attempt by Atlantis to conquer the surface world.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Wonder Tales #22 published May 1977
as The World Below! [Story on Interior Page(s)]as a Doctor Druid story; edited to make Dr. Droom into Dr. Druid
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Fantasy Omnibus #[nn] [Steve Ditko cover] published August 2007
as The World Below! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-187
Disclose Notes: Stan Lee writing credit as per "The Official Index To The Marvel Universe" #14
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Rocky's Last Ride!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Rocky Baines
Synopsis: Chisler Rocky gets a deal thats too good to be true, when a customer just "gives" him his car.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Fantasy Omnibus #[nn] [Steve Ditko cover] published August 2007
as Rocky's Last Ride [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-188
Disclose Notes: Stan Lee writing credit as per "The Official Index To The Marvel Universe" #14

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