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The Carbon Copy Man!

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Thor [Doctor Donald Blake]; the Carbon-Copy Man [Zano]

First Line: In another second you will be eternally trapped in a block of unbreakable ice!

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Pages: 1

Trapped By the Carbon-Copy Man!

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Thor [Donald Blake]; Jane Foster; Odin (cameo); Mayor Harris (introduction); Police Commissioner; Police Officers; War Lord Ugarth [Old Ugarth] (introduction); The Carbon-Copy Man [Warlord's Son Zano] (introduction); The Carbon-Copy Men

First Line: I can't budge!

Synopsis: The heir to the throne of a race of shape-shifting aliens leads an attack on Earth as his rite of passage. The aliens replace officials in New York and disrupt the government, but Thor discovers their plan and defeats them.

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Pages: 13

Notes: The Carbon-Copy Man next appears in X-Factor (Marvel, 1986 series) #32 (September 1988).

Mystery Mansion

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Sam Catlett; Caspar; Ben Rump; Bill Rump

First Line: There was something peculiar about the old Catlett estate.

Synopsis: A local millionaire secludes himself from his old bowling buddies as he becomes wealthier, but they discover that he misses them so much that he has invented a robotic bowling alley.

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Pages: 1.75

Job Number: [H-396]

Notes: The first page of this story is printed between the pages of the Thor story, while the second page is printed between the two back-up stories. The last page is split with the statement of ownership.

The Midnight Caller!

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Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy

Character(s): Hans; Anna

First Line: Many things can be hidden behind an iron curtain!

Synopsis: In a communist bloc country, a fugitive seeks shelter from an elderly couple who grant it to him. The next day they find their shack has been transplanted outside of the iron curtain and repaired to look as new. They regard the event as impossible but their guest says he was merely repaying the kindness shown to a stranger and is revealed to be an angel who was traversing the communist-occupied country for an unknown reason and then he ascends back to heaven.

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Pages: 5

Statement Required by the Act of August 24, 1912, as Amended by the Acts of March 3, 1933, July 2, 1946 and June 11, 1960 (74 Stat. 208)

Statement of Ownership on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Synopsis: Average sales per issue October 1961–September 1962 (issues #76–86, despite monthly cover dates): 132,113.

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Pages: 0.25

Notes: This shares the last page of "Mystery Mansion".

I Am A Robot!

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Genres: science fiction

First Line: Observe my newest mechanical man in action, gentlemen!

Synopsis: A criminal steals an advanced robot and uses it to rob a bank, but when he orders it to guard the door of his hideout an error in wording traps him inside permanently.

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Pages: 5

Notes: Narrated in the first person by the robot.