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Issue: World of Suspense #7
Publication Date: April 1957
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Issues: #7 of 8 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Atlas [black & white]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Atlas News Company, Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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The Face!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.
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The Face!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A companion of a wealthy man finds out that he does have a son after all so he goes to an inventor that has a machine that can transfer a photo of a face onto a living person. The inventor and the companion exchange faces and it is revealed that the inventor is the wealthy man's son and the old man, in his will, left his companion all of his money.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #32 published November 1974
as The Face! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-617
Disclose Notes: Wessler script per biblio in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 30, No. 8, August 2019.
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When the Creature Escapes

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A sea creature is captured and brought to an atomic testing facility. It attempts to communicate telepathically with the man who brought it there, but the man thinks it is evil and resists it. When it gets out of the tank, the man acquires a gun and hunts it down to kill it. After he does so, he encounters scientists who tell him that the creature shut down an out of control atomic pile saving all of their lives.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagChamber of Chills #13 published November 1974
as When the Creature Escapes [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Art of Al Williamson #[nn] published April 1983
as When the Creature Escapes [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-657
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The World's Strangest Crime

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #102 published January 1974
as The World's Strangest Crime [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-654
Disclose Notes: Oleck script per Martin O'Hearn: http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2019/08/jack-oleck-stories-in-three-atlas-titles.html
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The Prisoner

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Bill Benson; J.B. White
Synopsis: An unhappy foundry worker finds a message from a prisoner and rushes to help, finding that the message was merely a test of courage, and that his actions have gained him his dream job.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAstonishing #47 published March 1956
was The Message [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "The Prisoner"
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: H-729
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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The Lost Island!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #120 published January 1971
as The Lost Island! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-591
Disclose Notes: Oleck script per Martin O'Hearn: http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2019/08/jack-oleck-stories-in-three-atlas-titles.html
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Escape from Nowhere!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): The Great Myron
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Adventures #28 [U.S. Cover Price] published January 1975
as Escape From Nowhere! [Story on Interior Page(s)]-1 page
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: L-616
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To Walk Unseen

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #102 published January 1974
as To Walk Unseen [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-636

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