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Issue: The Best of Horror and Science Fiction Comics #1

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Publication Date: January 1987

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Issues: #1 of 1 Issue

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Publisher: Flag

Bruce Webster

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Indicia Publisher: Bruce Webster

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Volume: none

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $2.70 CAD
$2.00 USD

Indicia Frequency: none

Content Items: 11 (7 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Bruce Webster

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Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: Color

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Paper Stock: Baxter

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Reprinted From8

8 Content Items

reprinted 8 times from Content Items in other Issues.

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Cover, Front

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Title Page

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Content Items (11 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Basil Wolverton (signed)

Inker(s): Basil Wolverton (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?; typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

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From Content Item: Flag

Weird Tales of the Future #5 published January 1953
was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Editorial

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Bruce Webster (signed)

Letterer(s): typeset

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Inside front cover. Discussion of the stories in the issue with reprint sources.

The Brain-Bats of Venus

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Basil Wolverton ?

Penciller(s): Basil Wolverton (signed)

Inker(s): Basil Wolverton (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Basil Wolverton ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

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From Content Item: Flag

Mister Mystery #7 published September 1952
was The Brain Bats of Venus [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Uranus

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Murphy Anderson

Inker(s): Murphy Anderson

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): Life on Other Worlds

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Planet Comics #50 published September 1947
was Uranus [Story on Interior Page(s)]only first page

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Colorama

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Bob Powell

Penciller(s): Bob Powell

Inker(s): Bob Powell; Howard Nostrand

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Joe Rosen

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

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From Content Item: Flag

Black Cat #61 published January 1958
was Colorama [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Notes: The version reprinted is the Comics Code-approved one, with changes to panels five and six on page four and panel six on page five.

Gave Life to Save Lives

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Frank Frazetta (signed)

Inker(s): Frank Frazetta (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: war

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From Content Item: Flag

New Heroic Comics #71 published March 1952
was Gave Life to Save Lives [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Library of Horror

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Steve Ditko (signed)

Inker(s): Steve Ditko (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Charlotte Jetter

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

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From Content Item: Flag

The Thing #13 published April 1954
was Library of Horror [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Chicken Little

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Richard Doxsee (signed)

Inker(s): Richard Doxsee (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Feature(s): Mother Ghoul's Nursery Rhymes

Synopsis: Farm girl Chick Little is hit on the head by an acorn. She thinks the sky is falling. She runs off and has encounters with hipsters, United Nations, psychiatrists, quiz shows, etc. At the end, the planet Mars looms over her farm; she and her father are grabbed by Martians.

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Mysterious Adventures #24 published March 1955
was Chicken Little [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Mother's Advice

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Tony Mortellaro (signed)

Inker(s): Tony Mortellaro (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Ben Oda

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

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From Content Item: Flag

Weird Mysteries #7 published October 1953
was Mother's Advice [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 4

Notes: Story cited in Seduction Of The Innocent.

Blackheads "Pet Hate"

Advertisement on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?; typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Vacutex; Ballco Products

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Pages: 1

Notes: Inside back cover. Reprint of ad for Vacutex device for removing facial blackheads. Ballco Products Company, New York 18, New York. Ad looks to date from 1940s-1950s.

We Can Stop the Enemies of Youth

Public Service Announcement on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Frank Frazetta (signed)

Inker(s): Frank Frazetta (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: "Prepared through the cooperation of NYC Youth Board & the Assoc. of Comics Mag. Pubs." On back cover. PSA originally appeared in various Lev Gleason and Eastern Color comics in the early 1950's.