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Issue: Weird Wonder Tales #2
Publication Date: February 1974
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Issues: #2 of 22 Issues (28 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.20 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Roy Thomas
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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I Was Kidnapped by a Flying Saucer!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Gil Kane
Inker(s): Frank Giacoia
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Danny Crespi
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Crack-Up!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Doug Wildey (signed)
Inker(s): Doug Wildey (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Editor(s): Stan Lee (original story)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: Spaceship pilots who can't make the grade in rocket flight school are tested in simulations
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagL'Incroyable Hulk #64 published November 1976
as Carrière brisée! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales #138 published September 1955
was Crack-Up! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: [G-467]
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I Was Kidnapped by a Flying Saucer!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Paul Reinman (signed)
Inker(s): Paul Reinman (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Editor(s): Stan Lee (original story)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A carnival owner comes across small aliens who are spraying crops so that humans who eat the food will produce midgets so they won't have a size advantage when they invade, but he fools them into leaving Earth by claiming that the food is only producing small children ten percent of the time and producing giants the rest. He displays his circus giant to them as proof and they buy into his lie and leave.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales #138 published September 1955
was The Little Men! [Story on Interior Page(s)]retitled: I Was Kidnapped by a Flying Saucer!
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: [G-441]
Disclose Notes: Aliens redrawn from original story, possibly by Mike Esposito.
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The Unwanted!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Paul S. Newman
Penciller(s): Bill Walton (signed)
Inker(s): Bill Walton (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Editor(s): Stan Lee (original story)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: Human colonists are forced off Mars and so attempt to return to Earth only to be rejected by the cavemen remnants left after atomic war. They go into orbit around Earth and wait for the cavemen to evolve to the point that they will no longer be considered another race.
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From Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales #125 published July 1954
was The Unwanted! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: [E-445]
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Plaudits, Pronouncements, and Just Plain Plugs - Pontifically Presented!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee; ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Marvel Bullpen Bulletins
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Stan Lee's Soapbox; Items; Mighty Marvel Checklist.
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Murdock's Brain!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: Murdock invents a serum that will preserve his brain even though his body appears dead because he hopes to avoid atomic war that is impending. Peace breaks out and scientific advances occur that allow immortality, but Murdock lies in a coffin appearing dead but really just thinking, immobile.
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From Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales #126 published August 1954
was Murdock's Brain! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: E-700

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