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Issue: Amazing Stories of Suspense #154
Publication Date: January 1976
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Issues: #154 of 243 Issues (244 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagAlan Class
Brand:
Indicia Publisher:
On Sale Date: 1976
Volume:
Pages: 52
ISBN:
UPC/EAN:
Price: £0.15 GBP
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (11 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. This issue is a shortened version of Amazing Stories of Suspense #21. Issue indexed from GCD Error Report 12340 by Ger Apeldoorn.
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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: Perfect Bound
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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He Floats Thru the Air!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Bill Everett
Inker(s): Bill Everett; Carl Burgos ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #58 published May 1957
was He Floats Thru the Air! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover credits obtained from an article in From The Tomb #10 (June, 2003).
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He Floats Thru the Air

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Al Williamson
Inker(s): Ralph Mayo
Letterer(s): ?
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-758
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What Was the Staggering Secret of the 13th Floor

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Penciller(s): Don Heck (signed)
Inker(s): Don Heck (signed)
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Willy Sloane; Mr. Jordan
First Line: Willy Sloane operated the oldest elevator in the oldest hotel in town!
Synopsis: An oddly cheerful elevator operator is held at gunpoint with a passer-by by a spy planning to blow up the hotel. The elevator lets the spy off at the 13th floor, and while the passer-by is terrified, the elevator operator simply fades away, explaining that the bomb will never go off, since there is no 13th floor.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-588
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The Patient in Room 3D

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Penciller(s): Paul Reinman (signed)
Inker(s): Paul Reinman (signed)
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: Doctors perform an operation to increase brain power, hoping to find an answer to the world's problems, but the patient is still not intelligent enough to solve them. The doctors are disappointed, and allow the patient, a monkey, to regain his natural intelligence.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-305
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the second person.
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Will This Be the End of the World?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee ?
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Inker(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A baseball player's mitt is infested with tiny humans with enough rockets to evacuate their entire world as they see the baseball hurling towards them.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-306
Disclose Notes: Possible Lee script per an examination at Nick Caputo's Blog:
http://nick-caputo.blogspot.com/2011/11/who-authored-ditko.html
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Strange Journey

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Gill ?
Penciller(s): Paul Reinman (signed)
Inker(s): Paul Reinman (signed)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: A writer travels to the land where dolls go.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: 3618
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Quogg!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (signed)
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko [as S. Ditko] (signed)
Inker(s): Steve Ditko [as S. Ditko] (signed)
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Quogg
First Line: Our scene is an outpost in Africa!
Synopsis: A fugitive hides in an enclosure said to contain a horrible monster, and realizes too late that the monster appeared to be an ordinary hut.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-589
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Menace from Mars!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Penciller(s): Don Heck
Inker(s): Don Heck
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: Martians come to Earth to discover if humans represent a threat to them. They question a human using a machine to verify his answers, and find that he is totally free of greed, hatred or deceit. The Martians leave satisfied, unaware that they questioned a mental patient.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-346
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Sdrawkcab

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Tartaglione (illustrations)
Inker(s): John Tartaglione (illustrations)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Oston Trams; Mrs. Trams; Laer Trams; Mike Ross
Synopsis: An extraordinary child excels at sports and school, but does it all backwards.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-18
Disclose Notes: "Sdrawkcab" is "Backwards" spelled backwards. Originally published in Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #50 (August 1956) under the title "The Strange One."
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Forever Is a Long Long Time!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Penciller(s): Don Heck
Inker(s): Don Heck
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): Ray Holloway ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Luther Kane; Dr. Jonathan Weems
Synopsis: A greedy businessman bullies a scientist into giving him a device that can give humans the 1,000-year lifespan of a giant redwood. He ignores the scientist's warnings and uses the ray on himself alone in his mansion, finding to his horror that the ray also renders its subject as immobile as a redwood.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-379
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. This story is a retelling of "I Can Live Forever!" drawn by John Forte, in Journey into Mystery #55 (November 1959). The original has a more sympathetic main character and a happy ending. Possible Lee plot/Lieber script per Nick Caputo. Original indexer credited Stan Lee solely based on his later plot credit for another version of this story in Journey into Mystery #103 (April 1964).
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The Thing in the Black Box!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Dick Ayers ?; Marvin Stein ? (see notes)
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Dan Harper; Pandora
Synopsis: A shipwrecked man meets the legendary Pandora, who tricks him into releasing the demons from her box. Humanity is helpless against the demons, but the man forces Pandora to recall them by dispelling her illusory beauty.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: V-377
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. Ayers inks per Nick Caputo, September 2014. Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. credits Marvin Stein but Nick sees no evidence of his inking on this story. This story is retold in Chamber of Darkness (Marvel, 1969 series) #3 (February 1970) as "Something Lurks on Shadow Mountain" by Roy Thomas and John Buscema.
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The Careless Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Gill ?
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Inker(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Dr. Haunt (host)
Synopsis: Miller's occult efforts are defeated by his carelessness.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: 3360
Disclose Notes: Dr. Haunt is the narrator. This story was likely inventory scheduled for This Magazine Is Haunted.

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