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Issue: World of Fantasy #17
Publication Date: April 1959
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Issues: #17 of 19 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Zenith 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 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newsstands in January 1959. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.

Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
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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
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Who Was the Guardian of the Stars?

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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It Hides in the Forest!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Spot; Eruditians; Dudley
Synopsis: Eruditians announce their invasion of Earth and challenge humanity to discover what they have disguised their scout as. Fortunately, Spot the dog recognizes the alien has disguised itself as a tree and they withdraw their plans of conquest.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: T-180
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The Stranger

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Synopsis: A painting of a Napoleonic victory parade is mysteriously linked to an eccentric inhabitant of modern Paris.
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From Content Item: FlagAstonishing #39 published June 1955
was The Stranger [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1.75
Job Number: G-76
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. The first page of this story is printed between "It Hides in the Forest!" and "When a Planet Dies!", while the second page is between "The Brain Picker!" and "Guardian of the Stars!". The last page is split with the statement of ownership.
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When a Planet Dies!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Granu; Xanna; Maritsa
Synopsis: Xanna announces a plot for invasion against Granu's warning of a deluge. Suddenly, water sweeps over the planet, drowning them. They lived on a microscope slide, their planet no larger than a speck of dust.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: T-181
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The Man from Tomorrow!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Humphrey Pym
Synopsis: Humphrey poses as a time traveller supposedly newly-arrived in New York but is apprehended by real time travellers who are annoyed he didn't keep a low profile and send him "back" to the future.
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In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #202 published January 1984
as The Man from Tomorrow! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: T-182
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The Brain Picker!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Philip Kane; Frederic Kane; a robot
Synopsis: Frederic is exposed to radiation from an h-bomb and becomes telepathic. Frederic uses his telepathy to win a fortune, then takes over all the nations of the Earth. Frederic is unstoppable because he can read his enemies' minds but Philip defeats him by building a robot who has no such liability.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: T-178
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Statement Required by the Act of August 24, 1912, as Amended by the Acts of March 3, 1933, July 2, 1946 (Title 39, United States Code, Section 233)

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.25
Disclose Notes: This shares the last page of "The Stranger".
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Guardian of the Stars!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): A robot; Bruko
Synopsis: People doubt whether a robot should be assigned the task of manning a lighthouse station in space, but when Bruko invades the station so that a ship will strike an asteroid field, the robot destroys the station to send out a final warning to the ship; the robot is honored on Earth for its actions.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: T-1??

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