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Issue: Amazing Adventures #4
Publication Date: September 1961
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Issues: #4 of 6 Issues (8 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: MCView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Atlas Magazines, Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/01/1961
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 on June 1, 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 the Library of Congress. Additional credits and data from Joseph William Marek (May 24, 2003).
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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:  
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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I Am X

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Robot X
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Fantasy Omnibus #[nn] [Steve Ditko cover] published August 2007
as I Am X! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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I Am Robot X

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Robot X (introduction, origin); Prof. Jonathan Wilkes; Charles J. Wentworth
Synopsis: The creation of sentient robots provokes a demagogic campaign revealed to be the work of Martian spies.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Fantasy Omnibus #[nn] [Steve Ditko cover] published August 2007
as I Am Robot X [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: V-265
Disclose Notes: This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"Robot X!" (7 pp). Robot X later appears in Doc Samson (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (April 2006), but this version does not seem the same as the version in this story.

George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index credits Stan Lee as sole writer.
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The Pact

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Henry Conrad; Frances Conrad; the Devil
Synopsis: A historian writing about the trial and execution of his ancestor for witchcraft interviews the only remaining party concerned in the case: the Devil.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Fantasy Omnibus #[nn] [Steve Ditko cover] published August 2007
as The Pact [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #2 published August 1952
was The Pact [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: 9734
Disclose Notes: Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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Who or What Was...the Bootblack?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Simon Sledge
Synopsis: Simon Sledge is a cruel and heartless businessman who delights in making others suffer. On the way to the biggest deal of his life, one that will eliminate the last of his competition, he stops for a shoeshine. Suddenly his feet are moving away from his destination, taking him far from the deal that will give him a monopoly in his field. He glances back at the bootblack who is revealed as an angel, and who says that when human laws can’t touch someone like Sledge, there are always higher laws.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Fantasy Omnibus #[nn] [Steve Ditko cover] published August 2007
as Who or What Was... The Bootblack? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-264
Disclose Notes: George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index credits Stan Lee with script. Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
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What Lurks Within?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Dr. Anthony Droom [later retroactively renamed Doctor Druid]
Synopsis: Doctor Droom frightens off alien invaders by convincing them that a construction site’s wrecking ball is a life-form.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Fantasy Omnibus #[nn] [Steve Ditko cover] published August 2007
as What Lurks Within? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-266
Disclose Notes: Also carries the blurb: "Starring Doctor Droom!" The Doctor Droom feature skips the next issue.

George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index credits Stan Lee as sole writer.

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