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Issue: Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds #18 Public Domain
Publication Date: May 1960
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Issues: #18 of 48 Issues (50 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagCharlton
Brand:
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: 8 (6 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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reprinted 3 times as Content Items in other Issues.
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
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In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #151 published January 1977
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #27 published ?
as Hail, Hero [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #97 published ?
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: cover made up of panels from the first two stories.
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The Forbidden Formula

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A group of "watchers" are sent around the galaxy to make sure beings on various planets don't create a formula that can destroy the galaxy.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: 5842
Disclose Notes: Bill Montes pencils and possible inks per Nick Caputo, June 2016. Previous indexer credited Bill Fraccio.

story is narrated by a "Watcher" one of 900 billions of "Watchers", each of whom is assigned a planet. This Watcher pre-dates the Lee-Kirby Watcher who debuted almost two years later in Fantastic Four # 13 (April 1962).
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The Man Who Didn't Belong

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A man notices his co-worker has an uncanny ability to forsee the future. It turns out his co-worker is really a being from another dimension who was accidentally birthed on Earth and doesn't belong in our dimension. He departs when beings from his dimension come to claim him.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: 5643
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Hail Hero

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Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: An astronaut becomes the first man to successfully fly to Mars and as a result has become a hero and inspiration. He gets caught in a time warp on his way back to Earth and arrives 400 years into the future, where he finds out that he was responsible for uniting humanity due to his bravery.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: 5834
Disclose Notes: Mastroserio inks per Nick Caputo, June 2016. Previous indexer credited Vince Alascia.
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Space Suds

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A marketing genius creates a fake alien invasion to promote a product he came up with called "Space Suds". He never expected a real invasion would occur at that precise moment.
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Pages: 1.9
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In the Window

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, mystery
Synopsis: A sideshow attraction of a man in a window box is a big sensation. Is he a real man pretending to be a wax dummy or is he a real wax dummy? A thief who robs the carnival wants to make sure since the attraction was the only witness to his crime.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: 5837
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The Brain of Professor Mandel

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: Professor Mandel is one of the smartest men who ever lived, and wants to preserve his intellect in that of a new Super Computer that will live on after he dies. But the two are so connected that after Mandel dies, the computer dies as well by shutting down thus destroying it's memory banks.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: 6105

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