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Issue: Adventures into the Unknown #109 Public Domain
Publication Date: July 1959
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Issues: #109 of 174 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagAmerican Comics Group
Brand: American Comics Group ACGView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Best Syndicated Features Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Richard Hughes [as Richard E. Hughes]
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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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reprinted 3 times as Content Items in other Issues.
Some/all of Issue reprinted as/in another Issue:
FlagPS Artbooks Softee: Adventures into the Unknown #19 published September 2021
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The Message

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The cover appears to be a pastel drawing on canvas.
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The Hunter's Prey!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Max Prine; Lana Prine; Reptile aliens
First Line: Max Prine was the man who "Brought Them Back Alive!"
Synopsis: Max Prine is proud of capturing wild animals for zoos and circuses but his wife is not so sure. Returning from a hunt one day he sees his wife being abducted by aliens. He follows but is caught in an electrified trap. He wakes up in a cage and his wife tells him the aliens are collecting animals, including them, to take back to their world. They escape and are chased relentlessly by the aliens up a hill. Max turns the tables on the aliens by causing a landslide. Four aliens survive and they quickly escape in their rocket. Max releases the animals and tells Lana he is changing his job.
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In Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #182 published January 1988
as The Hunter's Prey [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
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[untitled]

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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Let's Talk It Over!
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Letters from Ronnie Hill, Ted Buddine, Malvin Elkin, John Walkin, Jeffrey Bentley, Vikki Traube, Jerry Kelly, Steve Hayes, Elwood Trotman, and Brenda Peterson.
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The Power of Gru-Gru

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Character(s): Teddy Adams; Helene Adams
Synopsis: A Rajah has an idol of the great Gru Gru that allows anyone who has it to make 5 wishes that will come true. While touring a cereal factory in America, he loses it in one of the vats and it gets packaged in a outgoing box. A young boy finds it while eating breakfast and thinks it's a toy not realizing it will grant him wishes.
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Pages: 7
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The Weavers of Doom!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Character(s): Jasper Ferall; Moira Norn; Sophronia Norn; Tabitha Norn
Synopsis: A greedy unscrupulous business man encounters the real life Norns (three ancient woman who weave the fates of humanity). Each Norn weaves images from the past, present, and future. He tries to get the Norn that weaves the future to weave him secrets of the stock market so he can be rich. He steals the tapestry and flees not realizing that she didn't finish weaving the future and weaved an image of his train crashing.
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In Content Item: FlagForbidden Worlds #128 published July 1965
as Loom of Fate! [Story on Interior Page(s)]retitled
In Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #182 published January 1988
as The Weavers of Doom [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
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The Message

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Jorgg Wendt; Gyrok
First Line: What was its purpose?
Synopsis: Jorgg Wendt is one of Earth's most brilliant scientists. He starts building a machine responding to voices he hears. He is unable to tell anyone what he is building as he does not know. He tries to destroy the machine but cannot and faints. Another message comes through. Gyrok tells him that he has been sending the messages and that the machine is a defense machine which he is not allowed to build on his own world. Reassured Wendt finishes the machine but he has been tricked and it is actually a transporter which brings Gyrok and his people to Earth.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Cover story.

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