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Issue: Amazing Adventures #5
Publication Date: October 1961
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Issues: #5 of 6 Issues (8 Printings)
Title:
Is Variant Variant: UK Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Atlas Magazines, Inc.
On Sale Date: 07/05/1961
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN:
Price: 9.0 pence GBQ 0-0-9
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
5 (4 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
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Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in July 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
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Monsteroso

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Monsteroso
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Escape of...Monsteroso!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Monsteroso; Phil; Ethel
Synopsis: A circus owner finds a dead alien in Africa and brings it to the United States for a museum. The alien turns out to be alive, and then goes on a rampage. It turns out that it is only a confused child, and its parents arrive to retrieve it.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: V-307
Disclose Notes: This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"Monsteroso" (7 pp). J
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T.V. or...?

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Bob Dixon
Synopsis: A TV repairman learns to see past electronics when he finds little people in a set.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: J-213
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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The Watchers!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Henry Fletcher; Tom Smith
Synopsis: A brilliant scientist believes that human ingenuity is guided by unseen advanced creatures, not knowing that his janitor is one such creature.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: V-325
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The Joker!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Horace
Synopsis: A practical joker thinks that aliens are his victims playing a joke on him, but they are real aliens and take him to an offworld zoo.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: V-308

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