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Issue: Uncanny Tales #135
Publication Date: January 1979
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Issues: #135 of 188 Issues (190 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagAlan Class
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Alan Class & Co. Ltd
On Sale Date: 1979
Volume:
Pages: 52
ISBN:
UPC/EAN:
Price: £0.20 GBP
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (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: Full Color Cover; Black & White Interior
Dimensions: 7.25" x 9.25"
Paper Stock: Glossy cover newsprint interior
Binding: Squarebound
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Bill Molno
Inker(s): Bill Molno ?; Vince Alascia ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: Mere backward Earthlings are no match for superior beings such as we...What th...!
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagSpace War #18 published September 1962
was A Look at a Backward Planet! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover is taken from the splash page of "A Look At A Backward Planet".
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A Look At A Backward Planet

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Gill ?
Penciller(s): Bill Molno
Inker(s): Bill Molno ?; Vince Alascia ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): RX23; an Inuit, a U.S. Marine; Mrs. Huntleighshireford; Nguta Lmu; a Russian; a Swede
First Line: Before RX23 went down to Earth to seize the widely selected samples of mankind, he scanned our civilization...
Synopsis: Six Earthlings defeat their alien abductor.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagSpace War #18 published September 1962
was A Look At A Backward Planet [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: A-1485
Disclose Notes: Cover story.
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Forwarned

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Gill ?
Penciller(s): Bill Molno
Inker(s): Vince Alascia ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, science fiction
Character(s): Number One [Shelby Noor]; Number Two; Number Three; Detective Chief Howard Leeds; Hasgood Ames; Redbow; the Turk
Synopsis: Shelby Noor wrote 4 books that described crimes that had either just been committed or would occur shortly after the book appeared.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagStrange Suspense Stories #70 published May 1964
was Forwarned [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: A-3452
Disclose Notes: Title has spelling error, should be "Forewarned".
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Space Narcosis

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Gill ?
Penciller(s): Bill Molno
Inker(s): Bill Molno ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Earthman; Female captain of enemy space fleet
First Line: It was madness... he knew that it wasn't possible to wipe out an entire enemy fleet but he'd been too long in the outer reaches of space...
Synopsis: A lone Earthman fends off an attack from another world.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagSpace Adventures #56 published March 1964
was Space Narcosis [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: A-3065
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The Brain People

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Medulla; Soviet Premier Akim; U.S. President David
Synopsis: On the way to a conference in Geneva, both the Soviet Premier and the U.S. President dream of a threat from another planet.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMysteries of Unexplored Worlds #41 published May 1964
was The Brain People [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: A-2829
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Strange World

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Gill ?
Penciller(s): Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio
Inker(s): Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Colonel Peter Randolph
First Line: Our scientists have never recorded the existence of a world like this!
Synopsis: A test pilot visits Atlantis, but has his memories erased.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagSpace War #19 published November 1962
was Strange World [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: A-1253
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Something in the Sea!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Paul S. Newman
Penciller(s): Bob Powell
Inker(s): Bob Powell
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Tod Mann; Wanda
First Line: Tod Mann could not take his eyes from her... for she was as strange and restless as the ocean itself!
Synopsis: A man on a sea cruise sees the Empire State building, the Sphinx, and a Buddha floating on the water and his love interest tells him that she is an Atlantean collecting these object as souvenirs for her people. When the captain later tells him that a movie is being filmed on an island shot with balsa wood replicas of these famous monuments, he thinks the girl was just pulling his leg, but he can't find her on board. After they dock, she doesn't get off, so he asks the film producer about her and is told they don't have such an actress and there will be no movie as all the props were stolen.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAstonishing #44 published December 1955
was Something in the Sea! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: H-004
Disclose Notes: Script credit from Newman's log book, The Comics! Vol. 14, No. 8 (Aug. 2003).
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But for Bluey

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): George Morrison; Helen Witlow; Joe Witlow; Bluey
First Line: When I tell you my name is George Morrison then I am certain you will recognize me.
Synopsis: George is rescued from a drifting fishing boat, thanks to his cat.
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From Content Item: FlagStrange Suspense Stories #36 published March 1958
was But for Bluey [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Big Deal

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Gill ?
Penciller(s): Bill Molno
Inker(s): Vince Alascia
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Hugh Tenant
First Line: Over and over again, Hugh Tenant told himself that a dream is a dream, no matter how real it may seam!
Synopsis: A man dreams of a disaster in the air.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagOuter Space #23 published July 1959
was Big Deal [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: 5244
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The Earth Snatchers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Gill ?
Penciller(s): Bill Molno
Inker(s): Bill Molno
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Miss Dillon; Commander Kern; Kurtz; Captain Edwards
First Line: All was serene on our war-torn planet...
Synopsis: Aliens move the Earth to orbit near their planet to strip its resources.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagSpace Adventures #55 published January 1964
was The Earth Snatchers [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: A-3221
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Time Dimension

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Gill ?
Penciller(s): Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio
Inker(s): Sal Trapani ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Captain Bob Ellis
First Line: The man you see above is Captain Bob Ellis, an experimental space pilot!
Synopsis: A test pilot accidentally kills his own ancestors.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMysteries of Unexplored Worlds #41 published May 1964
was Time Dimension [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: A-3045
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Companion comics in this series
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Lists Suspense, Sinister Tales, Creepy Worlds, Secrets of the Unknown, Uncanny Tales. and Astounding Stories.

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Published by Alan Class & Co. Ltd., 21 Dingley Road, London, EC1V 8BN (copyright).
Printed in England by Caldra House Ltd., 23 Coleridge Street, Hove, Sussex, BN3 5AB

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