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Issue: World of Fantasy #9
Publication Date: December 1957
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Issues: #9 of 19 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Chipiden Publishing Corp.
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):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in September 1957. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.

The stories in this issue all bear the logo reading "The editors guarantee that this is one of the most Astonishing stories you've ever read!" used by the cancelled Astonishing (Marvel, 1952 series) perhaps indicating that this issue was built on an unpublished pre-implosion issue.
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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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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images3
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
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Phantom of the Farm!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Girl Who Fell

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Gloria
First Line: The ways of the jungle are astonishing!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Planets #10 published January 1962
as The Girl Who Fell [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-342
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It's Harmless...I Think

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): George Tice; M'boto (witch doctor); Paul Dumaine; Marjorie Dumaine; Professor Peter Johnson; Mrs. Johnson
First Line: This is the cafeteria of the Science Foundation Building!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Planets #10 published January 1962
as It's Harmless...I Think [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-222
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Movie Maker

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)
Inker(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)
Colorist(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Matt Mastodon; Gil Feeley; Hodge Podges
First Line: The bigwigs at Mastadon picture studios...
Synopsis: A movie executive fires the only person who disagrees with him about a movie on a newly discovered world, but the boy turns out to have an inside connection with the aliens and makes his own film.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #45 published July 1956
was Movie Marvel [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "Movie Maker"
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-72
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Spare Me, Please!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): George Weston; Professor Ruggles
First Line: His cry was piteous...
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Planets #10 published January 1962
as Spare Me, Please! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-269
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Quarantine!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Horace Roarke; Ted Roarke; Muriel Roarke; Henrietta Higgins; Herb Higgins
First Line: If I could just have some hope!
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-248
Disclose Notes: Wessler script per biblio in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 30, No. 8, August 2019.
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Handsome Harry's Wife!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Harry Hennesy; Helen Hennesy
First Line: This is the happiest moment of my life, darling!
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: M-152
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The Phantom of the Farm!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Madigan; Jed; Carter
First Line: He flitted through the darkness...
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMessages in a Bottle: Comic Book Stories by B. Krigstein #[nn] published April 2013
as The Phantom of the Farm! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-270

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