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Issue: Tales of the Unexpected #10
Publication Date: February 1957
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Issues: #10 of 104 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: Superman DC National ComicsView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: National Comics Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/16/1956
Volume:
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 18 (7 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Slave to the Wizard's Lamp!

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Genres: fantasy
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Feature(s): The National Sports Council
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The Strangest Show on Earth

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Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A failing circus takes on bizarre new acts billing themselves as the Martian Circus. Though they pretend to be faking their alien acts, they are real Martians on Earth to smoke out a Martian criminal.
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Genres: humorous
First Line: You're just the man I want to see!
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Winter Sports Champions of the World

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Genres: non-fiction, opinion
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The Phantom Mariner

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Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: When Bruce Blake witnesses three captains going down with their ships in identical ways he begins to wonder about a connection. But when he sees one breathing underwater, and thinks about all three captains' initials, he realizes he might have been dealing with Davy Jones himself.
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Genres: humorous, science fiction
Feature(s): Robbie the Robot
First Line: $500.00 to Anyone Who Stays 2 Minutes with Battling Billy
Synopsis: A robot wins $500 in a wrestling contest but wants his winnings in gasoline.
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Disclose Notes: from Daisy Manufacturing Co.
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The Duplicate Man

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Genres: horror, science fiction
Synopsis: Orry Conn kills the inventor of a duplicating machine and creates a duplicate of himself to take the rap. But later he realizes that whatever happens to the original or the duplicate happens to the other, and, unfortunately for him, his duplicate is sentenced to die!
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The Man Who Hunted Witches

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Genres: humorous
First Line: Have you a moment? I'll tell your fortune!
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I Was Slave to the Wizard's Lamp

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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Emmet Mason; Mr. Hawkins; Katut; Landrow; Alice Mason
Synopsis: Emmet Mason purchases a lamp accompanied by a legend that the owner must keep it lit for ten years or be cursed with death. Mason protects the lamp at all costs until it is destroyed in a fire and a blue ruby found inside. The curse was a cover for the stolen gem, everyone is certain, except for Mason, who still wonders about the curse.
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Junior Space Pilots on the Beam!

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Disclose Notes: Sold by Wilson Chemical Company.
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