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Issue: Amazing Stories of Suspense #183
Publication Date: January 1980
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Issues: #183 of 243 Issues (244 Printings)
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagAlan Class
Brand: AC Class SeriesView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Alan Class & Co. Ltd
On Sale Date: 1980
Volume:
Pages: 52
ISBN:
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Price: £0.20 GBP
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 13 (9 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: Perfect Bound
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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The Four-Armed Things!; He Walked Thru Walls!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, science fiction
Character(s): William Cartwright
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #26 published December 1961
was The Four-Armed Things!; He Walked Thru Walls! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Blank Page(s)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside Front cover.
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He Walked Through Walls!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Silas Birch; Charles J. Cragmore
Synopsis: A stranger performs feats of magic, and offers anything that people might want if they sign a contract. He helps a disgruntled clerk steal money and get away, but the clerk is stranded on an island forever.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #26 published December 1961
was He Walked Through Walls! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-403
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Look Out!! Here Come the...Four-Armed Men!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee ?; Larry Lieber ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): "Anne Morgan"; William Cartwright; Bruno
Synopsis: An explorer learns of an invasion of four-armed aliens. His nurse tells him his bodyguard is one of the aliens, but he realizes that she is the real alien.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #26 published December 1961
was Look Out!! Here Come the...Four-Armed Men! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: V-402
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Behind the Mask!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bob Brown
Inker(s): Bob Brown
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Joe Fenton; Agnes Fenton; Ogu
Synopsis: A clown who can't have children finds an abandoned baby and takes him in only to discover the seeming infant is an alien spy. He is about to turn the creature in until he overhears the spy give his report to his superiors and requests that he be able to remain a human infant since he loves his adoptive parents.
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From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #43 published February 1956
was Behind the Mask! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: H-625
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Open Wider, Please

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Don Heck
Inker(s): Don Heck
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A dentist in 2030 discovers that his patient is a robot from Mars and calls the police. The Martian robot is stopped, and the dentist is relieved, since he wants nothing to stop the infiltration of Venusian robots like him.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #21 published July 1961
was Open Wider, Please [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-194
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person.
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Help!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Don Heck
Inker(s): Don Heck
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Synopsis: A writer buys a used typewriter that will only type a plea for help and an address, no matter what keys are struck. The writer goes to the address, and finds the typewriter's former owner trapped in a dangerous car accident.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #22 published August 1961
was Help! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-258
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person.
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Midnight on Haunted Hill

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Billy Jones/Brown (last name inconsistent)
Synopsis: A boy sees an alien landing, but no one believes him until the spaceship comes back. They didn't realize that a tree on a hill was really an alien being.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #28 published February 1962
was Midnight on Haunted Hill [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-489
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For Whom the Drum Beats!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Inker(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Max Kole; Grimm
Synopsis: A second-string drummer is envious of another member of the band, and so when he hears about a local gypsy, he goes to see her about improving his playing ability. At first, she refuses to help him because she can tell he is asking out of impure motives, but he threatens her with violence and so she casts her spell. At first, he is happy with his new fame as an excellent drummer, until he realizes...that he can never stop.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #22 published August 1961
was For Whom the Drum Beats! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
Job Number: V-259
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The Man Who Lived Twice!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Paul S. Newman
Penciller(s): Tony DiPreta (signed)
Inker(s): Tony DiPreta (signed)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Hal Walters
Synopsis: A man dying on the operating table finds that time has stopped for everybody but him. He intuits that eventually time will start back up, but he uses the time he has been given to do good deeds for people.
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From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #43 published February 1956
was The Man Who Lived Twice! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: H-564
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A Planet to Remember

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Gill ?
Penciller(s): Bill Montes ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
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From Content Item: FlagOut of This World #15 published October 1959
was A Planet to Remember [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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[untitled]

Blank Page(s)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside Back cover.
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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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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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