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Issue: Creepy Worlds #139
Publication Date: January 1973
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Issues: #139 of 250 Issues (251 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagAlan Class
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Alan Class & Co. Ltd
On Sale Date: 1973
Volume:
Pages: 52
ISBN:
UPC/EAN:
Price: £0.08 GBP
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 13 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Alan Class (reprint editor)
Disclose Notes: Issue is undated. Estimated date based on analysis of brands and cover prices in the series.

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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: colour cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: 7.25" x 9.25"
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: perfectbound
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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A Promise Is a Promise!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio
Inker(s): Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, war
Feature(s): Mr. Dedd
Character(s): Mr. Dedd (host)
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagGhostly Tales #57 published September 1966
was A Promise Is a Promise! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Gill ?
Penciller(s): Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio (signed)
Inker(s): Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio (signed)
Letterer(s): Jon D'Agostino ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Mr. Dedd
Character(s): Mr. Dedd (host)
First Line: Greetings, fiends! I'm not much at cards...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Mouse Tower

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Gill ?
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko
Inker(s): Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio
Letterer(s): Jon D'Agostino
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Mr. Dedd
Character(s): Mr. Dedd (host)
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: B-95
Disclose Notes: Page numbers start with '2' and as such continues on from the Mr. Dedd introduction of the stories in the table of contents in the previous sequence.
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The Nameless One!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Bob Powell
Inker(s): Bob Powell
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Nick Nolan; Fate
Synopsis: Nolan escapes prison and has a scientist give him his teleportation device. However, everywhere Nick goes is in the midst of a terrible danger so he finally has to return to his cell. The inventor of the device was Fate himself.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: G-922
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Results from the Unknown!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Gill ?
Penciller(s): Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio
Inker(s): Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio
Letterer(s): Jon D'Agostino
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Mr. Dedd
Character(s): Mr. Dedd (host)
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: B-98
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Dr. M. T. Graves Ghost Fighter

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Dave Kaler ?
Penciller(s): Ernie Bache
Inker(s): Ernie Bache
Letterer(s): Jon D'Agostino
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Dr. Graves
Character(s): Dr. Graves
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: B-101
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A Promise Is a Promise!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Gill ?
Penciller(s): Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio
Inker(s): Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio
Letterer(s): Jon D'Agostino
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, war
Feature(s): Mr. Dedd
Character(s): Mr. Dedd (host)
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Job Number: B-96
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The Secret of the Haunted House

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Al Williamson
Inker(s): Ralph Mayo
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A young girl discovers the secret of a haunted house's reputation is that it is a way station for time travelers.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: L-690
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The Man Who Wasn't!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Dick Ayers
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Letterer(s): Dick Ayers
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-221
Disclose Notes: Anti-communism story. Wessler script per Nick Caputo from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
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A Small World

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: 4810
Disclose Notes: The text for the job number and some of the page numbers missing from this reprint.
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Who Goes There!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Robert Q. Sale (signed)
Inker(s): Robert Q. Sale
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-144
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The Parrot!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bill Everett
Inker(s): Bill Everett
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Marvelo [Tiny Samson]; Jim Hall; Mrs. Jones
Synopsis: Samson poses as 'Marvelo', a large talking parrot for an act led by Jim Hall but Tiny resents Hall taking most of the money and frames him. However, the cleaning lady at their hotel has never liked 'Marvelo' and throws his cage out a window, nearly killing Samson.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: G-984
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Companion Comics in This Series

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Text: "Companion comics in this series - available monthly - Suspense - Sinister Tales - Creepy Worlds - Secrets of the Unknown - Uncanny Tales - Astounding Stories - Place your order now".

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