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Issue: Strange Worlds #1
Publication Date: December 1958
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Issues: #1 of 5 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Manvis Publications Inc.
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: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in September 1958. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. All new stories in this issue are narrated in the first person.
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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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I Discovered the Secret of the Flying Saucers!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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I Discovered the Secret of the Flying Saucers!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A man discovers that flying saucers are real, but are not actually ships, but alien beings able to travel through space on their own. They are often forced to crashland on Earth because of local radiation, and leave as quickly as possible.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAstounding Stories #98 published January 1973
as I Discovered the Secret of the Flying Saucers! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #32 [unnamed variant] published November 1974
as I Discovered the Secret of the Flying Saucers! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: T-76
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I Captured the Abominable Snowman!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Synopsis: A man lies, cheats and steals to find the abominable snowman, and eventually discovers a lama who knows the secret of the snowman and is forced to summon it. He discovers that the snowman was a greedy man like him, cursed to wear a bestial form until another took his place. He is horrified as the snowman becomes human and he is transformed into a monster.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagStrange Tales Annual #2 published September 1963
as I Captured the Abominable Snowman! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAstounding Stories #98 published January 1973
as I Captured the Abominable Snowman! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #13 [unnamed variant] published October 1974
as I Captured the Abominable Snowman! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThrilling Science Fiction #2 published January 1999
as I Captured the Abominable Snowman [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: T-81
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Detour to Mars

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Harry
Synopsis: A strange package is left at a man's door and it turns out to be the ship of an alien ambassador on his way to Mars. He helps the ambassador on his way, but then wakes up from the dream.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagStrange Stories of Suspense #7 published February 1956
was The Delivery Box [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "Detour to Mars"
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: H-570
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I Am Robot

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Thorne
Synopsis: A man creates a robot so advanced that it has the capacity to think and feel as a human. He entrusts his son to it, but when the robot is damaged while defending the child from alien abductors, the scientist's suspicious wife is convinced that it malfunctioned, and he abandons the project.
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In Content Item: FlagStrange Tales Annual #2 published September 1963
as I Am Robot [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-80
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I Am the Last Man on Earth!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Adam; Eve
Synopsis: When the humans of a peaceful future discover a planet where they could live five times as long they all leave Earth, except for one couple who are too attached to Earth's heritage and are left on the abandoned world to refound civilization: Adam and Eve.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #120 published January 1971
as I Am the Last Man on Earth! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-77

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