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Issue: Journey into Unknown Worlds #50
Publication Date: October 1956
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Issues: #50 of 58 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Atlas [black & white]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Western Fiction Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US (#s 37 [2] and 38 [3]); standard Silver Age US (#39 onwards)
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Here Comes the Cyclops!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.
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The Fog!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Synopsis: A man is transported back in time, where he is considered insane. He returns to the present, pursued by his jailer, who is in turn thought to be mad.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #130 published January 1972
as The Fog! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #227 published January 1988
as The Fog! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K-365
Disclose Notes: Features Bethlehem Royal Hospital ("Bedlam") in London, the world's oldest psychiatric hospital, and its Keeper.
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I Entered the Forbidden Land!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #121 published January 1972
as I Entered the Forbidden Land! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K-285
Disclose Notes: Features the "legendary" Tibetan land of Shangi-La, which first appeared in Lost Horizon by James Hilton (London, 1933); perhaps what was meant was Shambhala, a legendary land in Tibetan Buddhist tradition.
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When the City Trembled

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #121 published January 1972
as When the City Trembled [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAmerica's Greatest Comics #6 published January 2003
as When the City Trembled [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGolden-Age Greats Spotlight #5 published June 2011
as When the City Trembled [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K264
Disclose Notes: Wessler credit from his record books, per Robin Snyder's the Comics,Vol 25, No. 8, August 2014.
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Stranger Than Fiction!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #121 published January 1972
as Stranger Than Fiction! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K305
Disclose Notes: Wessler credit from his record books, per Robin Snyder's the Comics,Vol 25, No. 8, August 2014.
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Bird Talk

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Character(s): Tony Tipple; Skeets Mulligan; Toodles Murphy
Synopsis: A meeting with a strange man gives a boy an unusual way of getting a pet bird, talking to birds.
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In Content Item: FlagWorld of Fantasy #16 published February 1959
as Bird Talk [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #70 [U.S. Cover Price] published July 1961
as Bird Talk [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales of Suspense #33 [U.S. Cover Price] published September 1962
as Bird Talk [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #40 [unnamed variant] published February 1963
as Bird Talk [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #94 [U.S. Cover Price] published July 1963
as Bird Talk [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-424
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Quarantine

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: K-309
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Cyclops

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Niles Ulysses Barret
Synopsis: A WWII destroyer is torpedoed in the Mediterranean; one boatload of survivors, including Capt. Niles Ulysses Barret, come ashore on an island where they recapitulate the adventure of Odysseus and his crew with Polyphemus the Cyclops, as related in Book 9 of Homer's Odyssey.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMonsters Unleashed #3 published November 1973
as The Cyclops [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K-226

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