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Issue: Amazing Adventures #6
Publication Date: November 1961
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Issues: #6 of 6 Issues (8 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: MCView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Atlas Magazines, Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/01/1961
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 in August 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:  
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Disclose Reprinted In9
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images1
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Original Artwork
Digital Edition
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Sserpo, the Creature Who Crushed the World!!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Sserpo
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMystic #36 published January 1963
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #27 published November 1973
as Sserpo, the Creature Who Crushed the World!! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Fantasy Omnibus #[nn] [Steve Ditko cover] published August 2007
as Sserpo, the Creature That Crushed the World!! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: V-337
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Sserpo! The Creature Who Crushed the Earth!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Sserpo; Thomas Burke; Henry Burke; Anne Burke
Synopsis: A growth serum is abandoned and eaten by a lizard, which grows big enough to menace the Earth. The world is only saved when a scientist, the great-grandson of the inventor of the serum, contacts aliens on Jupiter, who use their advanced technology to restore the creature to normal.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMonsters on the Prowl #27 published November 1973
as Sserpo! the Creature Who Crushed the Earth! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Fantasy Omnibus #[nn] [Steve Ditko cover] published August 2007
as Sserpo! The Creature Who Crushed the World! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: V-337
Disclose Notes: This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"Sserpo" (7 pp).
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Muscle Man

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Jimmy Binn; Tooloo
Synopsis: An ordinary man envies body-builders on the beach, and a strange figure teaches him about the strength of his own mind.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Fantasy Omnibus #[nn] [Steve Ditko cover] published August 2007
as Muscle Man [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #48 published July 1956
was Muscle Man [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: J-849
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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The Fourth Man!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Ben; Spade; Mr. White
Synopsis: Two thugs attempt to mug a kindly old man in the park when a statue comes to his aid.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Fantasy Omnibus #[nn] [Steve Ditko cover] published August 2007
as The Fourth Man [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-339
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
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Krogg!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Dr. Anthony Droom [later retroactively renamed Doctor Druid]; Krogg
Synopsis: Dr. Droom investigates the disappearance of several houses, and finds that an alien disguised as a scientist is to blame.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagGiant-Size Man-Thing #3 published February 1975
as Krogg! [Story on Interior Page(s)]main character's name changed from Dr. Droom to Dr. Druid
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Fantasy Omnibus #[nn] [Steve Ditko cover] published August 2007
as Krogg! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-338
Disclose Notes: Doctor Droom next appears as Doctor Druid in the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1968 series) #210 (April 1977), he had already been renamed in the reprints of these stories.

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