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Issue: Strange Stories of Suspense #14
Publication Date: April 1957
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Issues: #14 of 12 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Atlas [black & white]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Classic Detective Stories, Inc.
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: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee
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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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Someone Waits in the Trunk!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.
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Beware...A Martian

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Al Williamson
Inker(s): Ralph Mayo
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: In 1968 a bigot attempts hate crimes against a Martian who has fled war-torn Mars to live on Earth in peace.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-468
Disclose Notes: Wessler script from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
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Someone is in the Trunk

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Dick Ayers
Inker(s): Dick Ayers ?; Ernie Bache ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Dick Ayers ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A thief in a rooming house gets a psychologist as a roommate who sets a trap for him by placing a mirror in the bottom of a trunk to plague the thief's guilty conscience with his own reflection.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #S published January 1977
as Someone Is in the Trunk [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-520
Disclose Notes: Wessler script from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
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When His World Vanished

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Robert Q. Sale (signed)
Inker(s): Robert Q. Sale (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: When a man hits-and-runs a little boy, the boy's uncle gets revenge by giving the man a pill which erases him from existence.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #S published January 1977
as When His World Vanished [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-464
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All Through the Night

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Tony DiPreta (signed)
Inker(s): Tony DiPreta (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A man finds that the people he is familiar with have all been replaced by strangers.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #S published January 1977
as All Through the Night [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-334
Disclose Notes: Wessler script from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
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Surprise for the Audience

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMystery Tales #38 published February 1956
was Mystery Team [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "Surprise for the Audience"
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: H-785
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Child's Play!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Tartaglione
Inker(s): John Tartaglione
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A man with a self-inflated ego takes several years to assemble found parts, creating a materializer which brings forth a resident of the fourth dimension. He begs the visitor to take him back to the fourth dimension, but he declines and tells him he just isn't smart enough as the materializer is simply a toy fourth dimensional children amuse themselves with.
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In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #S published January 1977
as Child's Play! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #233 published January 1987
as Child's Play! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: L-346
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Inside the Hidden Well!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Doug Wildey
Inker(s): Doug Wildey
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: In Africa, during WWII, a German soldier finds the well where Achilles' mother bathed him and so becomes invulnerable to bullets and steals the American soldiers' food who had found him wandering dazed in the desert. They open up on him and one of the bullets glances off his heal, killing him, because that is where the American medic had placed a bandage over a boot blister.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #S published January 1977
as Inside the Hidden Well! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-450

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