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Issue: The Steve Ditko Archives #4
Publication Date: November 2013
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Issues: #4 of 6 Issues
Title: Impossible Tales
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Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
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Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
On Sale Date: 10/2013
Volume: 4
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9781606996409
UPC/EAN: 978160699640953999
Price: $39.99 USD
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Content Items: 51 (39 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Hardcover
Color: color
Dimensions: 7.25 in. x 10 in.
Paper Stock: matte
Binding: hardcover
Publishing Format: collected editions
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[untitled]

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Impossible Tales

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Table of Contents

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Ditko Then and Now

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The Menace of the Maple Leaves

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Synopsis: Long ago a witch put a spell on maple trees and to this day the trees have the means to protect themselves.
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The Forbidden Room

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The Man Who Crashed into Another Era!

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Nightmare

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Synopsis: A man attempts to avoid the fate that his wife has dreamed for him.
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The Somnambulist

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Synopsis: Con men use a supposed oracle to clear a town's populace as part of a plan for a robbery
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The Strange Silence

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You Can Make Me Fly

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Synopsis: An escaped convict convinces his scientist brother to endow him with the power of flight
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The Man Who Crashed into Another Era!

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Little Lost Girl

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There It is Again

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Man from the Ages; Never Again; The Edge of Fear

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The Repair Man from Nowhere

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Panic!!

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A Strange Kiss

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The Secret Room

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A Living Doll

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Synopsis: An explorer brings back a doll from Africa which seems to have a life of its own.
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When Old Doc Died

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The Old Fool

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Mister Evriman

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The Edge of Fear

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The Green Man

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The Second Self

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Synopsis: A scientist refuses to slow down until he creates a clone and learns the value of real human life.
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The Green Man

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Synopsis: A man seeks a cure for his green skin, but there isn't one.
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The Most Terrible Fate

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Synopsis: In a post-apocalyptic world, a man is born a mutant human to robot parents.
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Cure-All

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From Out of the Depths

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Synopsis: Juan fights against the thing that comes out of the sea.
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The Man Who Disappeared

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Journey to Paradise

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Synopsis: Adam Marsh, a scientist who teaches evolution and dismisses notions of Adam and Eve, stumbles on a time machine and finds himself alone in paradise waiting for his Eve.
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And the Fear Grew

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Synopsis: A man adopts an animal in Australia the aborigines think is evil.
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The Heel and the Healer

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Synopsis: A medicine-show man encounters a healer with a real cure-all, but loses his chance to use it for good.
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Never Again

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Through the Walls

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Synopsis: A wrongly-accused man develops the ability to pass through walls to force a confession out of the real criminal.
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The World Awaits

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The Angry Things

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Synopsis: Toni Corso learns the villa he just purchased is inhabited by angry things created by accumulated wickedness.
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Little Boy Blue

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Character(s): The Mysterious Traveler (host); Johnny Blue; Farley Caldane (music critic)
Synopsis: Johnny Blue was a trumpeter beyond belief, but he deeply believed that there were other notes...notes that no one had ever played or heard before, and he wanted to play them. However, when he did, it scared the daylights out of him and he disappeared from the scene.
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The Vision Came

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Synopsis: Little Susi, blind from birth, and no one willing to adopt her, lived in an orphanage in the Bavarian Alps. But she had an imaginary playmate, Grulla, who kept her company. Then one night, Grulla took form, told her he was going away, but would return with a surprise. Soon a couple came to the orphanage to adopt and chose Susi: the couple was named the Grullas, and the husband was an eye surgeon!
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Impossible, But....

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The Man from Time

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Failure

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Synopsis: Karl Phalen creates a machine to see the future, but to avoid the future he sees he must keep the machine a secret.
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Not Normal

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Synopsis: Peter Benton has uncanny luck, until it runs out.
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Charmed, I'm Sure

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Deep in the Mountains

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The Dancing Cat

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Synopsis: Fred Miller buys an Egyptian music box that he fears is bringing him bad luck.
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Space War

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