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Issue: Amazing Stories of Suspense #167
Publication Date: January 1978
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Issues: #167 of 243 Issues (244 Printings)
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagAlan Class
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Indicia Publisher: Alan Class & Co. Ltd
On Sale Date: 1978
Volume:
Pages: 52
ISBN:
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Price: £0.15 GBP
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 13 (12 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 is a shortened version of Amazing Stories of Suspense #1. Issue indexed from GCD Error Report 12338 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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When He Presses the Button

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Bill Everett (signed)
Inker(s): Bill Everett (signed)
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): ?
Editor(s): Stan Lee (original editor)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
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From Content Item: FlagAstonishing #60 published April 1957
was When He Presses the Button [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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When He Presses the Button!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ed Winiarski
Inker(s): Ed Winiarski
Letterer(s): ?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-307
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The House of Fear!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): John Forte (signed)
Inker(s): John Forte (signed)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A man and a woman enter a creepy house when they are confronted by a spectral figure. The woman is terrified and wishes to flee, the skeptical man assures her the figure can only be hoax to frighten away the ignorant. He even reaches out to touch it, despite her objections. After he has made contact with the figure, he says even the house looks normal now and that it must have been some hypnotic spell that made it appear dilapidated. The woman backs away from him, horrified by his skeletal appearance, and shrieks "No! It looks normal to you now...Because you're DEAD!"
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Pages: 4
Job Number: L-355
Disclose Notes: Wessler script per Nick Caputo from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
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The Dragon's Roar!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Joe Orlando (signed)
Inker(s): Joe Orlando (signed)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: A communist general decides to make an example of defiant villagers who celebrate the new year against his orders by building a dragon float with machine gunners inside to open fire upon the revelers. When the float gets to the center of the parade another dragon appears which the communist soldiers take to be another float, but it is real and attacks and destroys them, sparing the villagers.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: L86
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The Secret!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jim Mooney
Inker(s): Jim Mooney
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: A man gains his fortune by selling mud in beauty treatments gathered for him by mermaids.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: K183
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The Inventor

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Gene Colan ?
Inker(s): Gene Colan ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Joe; Timothy Braun
Synopsis: A teenager is inventing a mechanical potato peeler, but a supernatural figure stops him to preserve the culture of hand-peeling potatoes in kitchens.
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Pages: 2
Job Number: J-215
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The Changeling

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Forte (signed)
Inker(s): John Forte (signed)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: The mayor and three children devise a scheme to cheat an old man out of his property.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: K668
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The Secret of the Graveyard!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Herb Familton (signed)
Inker(s): Herb Familton (signed)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Two hunters find out that the elephant's graveyard is a cave with a quicksand floor.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: K572
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They Can't Resist!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Manny Stallman
Inker(s): Manny Stallman
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: An alien from Ganymede gives a disk to a man hoping his curiosity will cause him to trigger a release of gas from the disk when he looks at it which will allow the aliens to invade easily, but the man tosses the disk into the river as he is blind.
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Pages: 3
Job Number: K464
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Magic Words!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Russ Heath (signed)
Inker(s): Russ Heath (signed)
Letterer(s): ?
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Pages: 4
Job Number: G653
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The Man Who Took a Walk!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Paul S. Newman
Penciller(s): Robert Q. Sale (signed)
Inker(s): Robert Q. Sale (signed)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: A man from Atlantis tours the scientific achievements of the surface world.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: G-786
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I Wore...The Mask of Drothor!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Inker(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Markas; Drothor (flashback)
Synopsis: An artist creates a mask based on the face of an ancient sorcerer. He robs a mansion wearing this mask, but his face has transformed to match it.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: T-745
Disclose Notes: This is a retelling of "Who Hides Beneath My Mask?" drawn by Dick Ayers in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #6 (November 1959).
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Speed-Trapped

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Gill ?
Penciller(s): Bill Molno
Inker(s): Bill Molno ?
Letterer(s): Jon D'Agostino
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Rookie Cop
Character(s): Officer Joe Ford; Officer Dan Kerscher; Al (villain)
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Pages: 6

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