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Issue: Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds #16 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1960
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Issues: #16 of 48 Issues (50 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagCharlton
Brand: A Charlton PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Charlton Comics Group
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)
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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
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
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In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #109 published ?
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Giant Bubble Threat

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Larry Baylor
First Line: What will man find...
Synopsis: A drilling company drills deeper then ever before, and unleashes giant bubbles that start absorbing objects on the surface.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: 5809
Disclose Notes: credits per Nick Caputo, May 2015.
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The Man with 1000 Faces

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Ricardo; Jack Clinton; Perry
First Line: An extraordinary talent had Ricardo!
Synopsis: A reporter interviews a man who can change his appearance. It turns out he's a shapeshifting alien from Mars.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: 5868
Disclose Notes: Molno pencils per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Charles Nicholas.

In the final panel, the reporter is looking at the Charlton comic featuring the story he was unable to sell to a newspaper as being too fantastic.
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Time Belt

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Uncle Jim Bryan; Helen Dodson; Ted; Alice Rice; Captain Richardson; Lieutenant Gardner; Tignashi
First Line: Uncle Jim Bryan was a very convincing talker.
Synopsis: A man and his nephew are on an airplane that gets pulled to the Moon. There they meet the friendly inhabitants. When they return to Earth, they find out that time hasn't been affected due to a "reverse time bolt" and it was if they never left Earth.
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Pages: 2
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The Ganymede Enigma

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Brian Borden
First Line: Jupiter was impossible to land on...
Synopsis: A millionaire builds his own ship and visits one of Jupiter's moons, only to find out that human like robots toil there on behalf of the Jupiterians.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: 5840
Disclose Notes: Possible Fraccio pencils and Colletta inks per Nick Caputo.
The only story not to be advertised on the cover.
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The Barrier Clouds of Venus

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Kalem (military commander of Venus); Barzam of Mars
First Line: Mysterious Venus, our nearest planet...
Synopsis: Explorers from Earth find out that Martians have erected a giant cloud around Venus to keep the war-like Venusians from attacking both Earth and Mars.
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Pages: 7
Job Number: 5810
Disclose Notes: Molno pencils per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Rocco Mastroserio.

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