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Issue: House of Secrets #53
Publication Date: March 1962
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Issues: #53 of 154 Issues (157 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: Superman DC National ComicsView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: National Periodical Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/23/1962
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 19 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from ad in My Greatest Adventure #65 and copyright registration.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Mark Merlin's Giant Double!

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Mark Merlin; Elsa
First Line: That giant double of you performed only good deeds centuries ago!
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Pages: 1
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First Line: Draw any person in just one minute
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Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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The Secret Seven of Staleyville

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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Styles; Bill Bergen; Ken
First Line: Great Scott! Styles has the other vigilantes trapped in a magic web he spun!
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Pages: 7.67
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Feature(s): Rip Hunter... Time Master; Tomahawk
First Line: For the very best...
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Feature(s): Justice League of America; Aquaman
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Dolly and the Professor
First Line: Hello, Dolly? How about going to the movies tonight?
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The Creatures That Changed the Future

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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Tim; Bashabar; Carl; Jed
First Line: Watch carefully... the weird things those eerie creatures are doing will lead us to a million-dollar treasure!
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Average circulation: 205,000.
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Angelo Secchi

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Genres: informational, non-fiction, science and technology
First Line: Father Secchi, an Italian Jesuit astronomer, pioneered in solar photography, during the eclipse of 1851...
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From Content Item: FlagMystery in Space #33 published August 1956
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March of the Robots

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First Line: One night, a hundred years ago, thieves broke into the palatial home of a millionaire, in Paris.
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Mark Merlin's Giant Double

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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Mark Merlin; Za-Tor; Elsa; Silas Ambrose [Doctor Kaloz]
First Line: Mark! That giant double of you... I thought he was supposed to do only good deeds!
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Your Passport to Amazing Adventures!

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Feature(s): My Greatest Adventure; House of Mystery; Blackhawk
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From Many Lands....

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Genres: opinion
First Line: From the dawn of history, people have traded with each other to acquire things they needed in exchange for things they had plenty of.
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First Line: Learn to play the guitar!
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First Line: Boys here's a swell way to make $1 to $5 weekly in your spare time
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First Line: Reward $2,000.00 for this rare coin!
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First Line: Nationally famous prizes at no cost to you!
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First Line: Make money get prizes with fast selling American Seeds
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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