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Issue: Strange Tales #40
Publication Date: November 1955
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Issues: #40 of 168 Issues (244 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Atlas [black & white]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Chipiden Publishing Corp.
On Sale Date: 08/08/1955
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1955 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US and standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Format Notes:  
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Disclose Images2
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Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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The Man Who Caught a Mermaid?

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #5 [Regular Edition] published October 2011
as [Strange Tales #40] The Man Who Caught a Mermaid? [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.
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This Dark Cave

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A man returns to his shelter after he mistakes a small town that has been evacuated in service of atomic bomb tests for the worldwide war that he has feared would come.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #81 published January 1969
as This Dark Cave [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAstounding Stories #130 published January 1978
as This Dark Cave [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #236 published January 1986
as This Dark Cave [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #5 [Regular Edition] published October 2011
as This Dark Cave [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: H-114
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The Search

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Uwaga; Babu; Narodu
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #5 [Regular Edition] published October 2011
as The Search [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: G-790
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A Stranger on Earth

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Lok
Synopsis: When an alien crash lands on Earth, he is met with violence by men, but is befriended and helped to return to his ship by a dog. From orbit he thinks about destroying the planet but realizes that would kill the dogs too and refrains from his plan.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #5 [Regular Edition] published October 2011
as A Stranger on Earth [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: H-116
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The Man Who Caught a Mermaid!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Joe Blair; Jeremy Torgan
Synopsis: A man attempts to play a joke on a skeptical friend by hiring a girl with a mermaid costume to be dropped into the sea by a helicopter and then brought out of ocean with a net. The trick works on his friend and he tells his men to throw the girl back but the friend thinks he is mad to release such an amazing discovery. He lets the man know that he set the stunt up to fool him when one of his men tells him that the girl he had hired had become ill that day and never showed up for the prank.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #5 [Regular Edition] published October 2011
as The Man Who Caught a Mermaid! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: G-867
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The End of Time!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: God intervenes directly to stop militarists from rushing towards war.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #143 published January 1975
as The End of Time! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #5 [Regular Edition] published October 2011
as The End of Time! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: H136
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No Place to Hide

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): David Reynolds; Joshua Swift
Synopsis: A judge sentences a man to ninety days in the workhouse for vagrancy and finds himself back in time 300 years. He is pulled off the street because of his strange clothes and the judge thinks his family photograph and cigar lighter are examples of black magic. He escapes and finds himself back in the present. He has second thoughts about the sentence he has passed and releases the man he had charged the previous day.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #5 [Regular Edition] published October 2011
as No Place to Hide [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: G-850

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