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Issue: Amazing Stories of Suspense #184
Publication Date: January 1980
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Issues: #184 of 243 Issues (244 Printings)
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Publisher: FlagAlan Class
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Indicia Publisher: Alan Class & Co. Ltd
On Sale Date: 1980
Volume:
Pages: 52
ISBN:
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Price: £0.20 GBP
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Content Items: 10 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Alan Class (reprint editor)
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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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Jack-in-the-Box!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Bill Everett
Inker(s): Bill Everett
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #55 published February 1957
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Pages: 1
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The Jack-In-The-Box

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Mac Pakula
Inker(s): Mac Pakula
Letterer(s): ?
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Pages: 4
Job Number: L-177
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I Must Enter the Tomb of Tut-Am-Tut!

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): Jon D'Agostino
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Albert Cragg
Synopsis: A scientist creates a time machine to travel back to ancient Egypt in order to pose as a magician and find the location of a great treasure. He is trapped in the past when his time machine is buried with the Pharaoh.
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Pages: 6
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A Voice in the Dark

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
Penciller(s): Paul Reinman
Inker(s): Paul Reinman
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Freddy Sloan
Synopsis: A crook hides in a wax museum, but he is scared off by a phonogram record. The curator finds the record, but no one except the statues could have turned it on.
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Pages: 5
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His Name Was...Merlin!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (signed)
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Inker(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Letterer(s): Ray Holloway ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Joe Cooke [The Great Nero/Merlin the Mystic]; Merlin
Synopsis: An untalented magician who takes the name Merlin is visited by the spirit of the real Merlin in the form of a derelict and offers to teach him some tricks. When the man learns Merlin's last trick of completely disappearing, he stiffs Merlin his fee. Merlin tells him that he'll be sorry and is the last to depart the theater after the magician uses his disappearing trick and is never seen again.
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Pages: 5
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Behold--the Monster!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (signed)
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Inker(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Joe; J.G.
Synopsis: A publicity agent has a large paper mache monster created to promote a new movie but is despondent when his boss criticizes him for public complaints the object is generating. Unknown to anyone on Earth, an alien invasion force is drawing near when its commander orders the viewscreen to display a typical Earth creature so they will know what to expect. When the viewscreen picks up the large monster, the alien commander panics and orders a full retreat.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: V-966
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Kraggoom! The Creature Who Caught an Astronaut!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Steve Ditko
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Kraggoom; Derek Wolfington
Synopsis: An exiled gaseous alien criminal named Kraggoom waits in Earth orbit for the first human astronaut in order to enter his body and possess his mind, returning to Earth as a conqueror. However, the first astronaut turns out to be a wealthy cheat who paid a safecracker to obtain the test results from NASA's selection process and altered them so that he would be chosen as the first astronaut. He is unable to cope with space travel and develops amnesia under the stress. Kraggoom, trapped in the human's mind, suffers the same fate as the spacecraft returns to Earth.
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Pages: 7
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The Toy Soldiers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (signed)
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Inker(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Billy Barton; Zogg
Synopsis: A boy who enjoys toy soldiers buys a new civil war figure to place in his prisoner of war stockade. That evening, he and his father are attacked by an invader from the sixth dimension. Suddenly, the lights go out, and when they turn the lights back on, the invader has disappeared. They chalk it up to some sort of unusual shared dream, and go back to sleep. The following morning when the boy wakes up and peers into his model stockade, he sees the invader languishing in the cell guarded over by the toy soldier.
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Pages: 5
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I Found the Impossible World!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
Penciller(s): Don Heck
Inker(s): Don Heck
Letterer(s): Jon D'Agostino
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): John Fleming; Bartho; Ricca
Synopsis: An experimental time machine seems to fail, aging its inventor 10 years. In fact he travelled into a fantastic future, but had his memory erased as punishment for trying to sow discord.
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Pages: 8
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A Shaggy Wolf Tale!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Al Williamson (signed)
Inker(s): Ralph Mayo
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Atomic radiated wolves gain mental telepathy and request that humans cease killing animals for their pelts. In exchange, they give humans the gift of growing long coats.
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Pages: 3
Job Number: M-63

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