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Issue: Strange Suspense Stories #6
Publication Date: March 1969
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Issues: #6 of 9 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagCharlton
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Charlton Press, Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 5 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Sal Gentile (Managing Editor)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Four 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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Mo Marcus ?; Pat Boyette; Don Perlin
Inker(s): Vince Alascia; Pat Boyette; Don Perlin
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Pat Boyette; Fred Himes; ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover images taken from inside stories.
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The 2nd Age of Monsters

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Gill ?
Penciller(s): Mo Marcus ?
Inker(s): Vince Alascia
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Dr Jim Braithard; Dr Manzeo; Anne, Jim's wife; police lieutenant; various native henchmen
Synopsis: Dr Manzeo discovers that living creatures can be made into giants by feeding them a "prehistoric" variety of swamp moss. He is stopped by a giant-sized Jim who forces him to turn over the antidote to restore all of Manzeo's experimental subjects (and Jim himself) to normal size.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Job Number: B-1604
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La Bruja Del Brujamo

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Albert Powell; Colonel Juan Mendoza; The Witch; Dr Frederico Cabrino; John Campbell
Synopsis: A witch who had healed a young Albert Powell places a curse on Albert's wife for neglecting to support her in her later years. After it has all been explained as a misunderstanding, Albert's wife is cured. Subsequently the man who has been embezzling the support money confesses.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Money Machine

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Pat Boyette ?; Joe Gill ?
Penciller(s): Pat Boyette (signed)
Inker(s): Pat Boyette (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Pat Boyette
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Murray Spence; Mr Blurp; unnamed bartender; Humphrey Stout; the ghost of Leon Frammis
Synopsis: Murray Spence attempts to sell a machine that he claims will transform $10 bills into fifties. He foolishly plies his con from the very room where magician and spiritualist Leon Frammis lived his last days. Frammis punishes Spence by exposing him as a fraud and finally taking over his body.
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In Content Item: FlagGhostly Tales #153 published February 1982
as Paradise Acres [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGhostly Tales #153 published February 1982
as The Money Machine [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Job Number: B-1746
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Paradise Acres

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Don Perlin ?
Penciller(s): Don Perlin (signed)
Inker(s): Don Perlin (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Don Perlin
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Feature(s): Jason Jaxon
Character(s): Jefferson Lincoln Rimmon III [Bubi]; Jason Jaxon; George
Synopsis: Real estate developer Jason Jaxon intends to fill in Bubi's swamp and build a tract of homes. However he is defeated by Bubi who calls upon his friends, the creatures of the swamp, to thwart Jaxon's plans.
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In Content Item: FlagPlanet Series v2 #1 published April 1979
as Paradise Acres [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGhostly Tales #153 published February 1982
as Paradise Acres [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Job Number: B-1744
Disclose Notes: Bubi seems to be inspired by the title character of the Irvin S Cobb short story "Fishhead", a freakish fish-man who is one with his wetland environment and whose murder at the hands of "fever-ridden squatters" is avenged by the denizens of the swamp.

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