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Issue: Unusual Tales #22 Public Domain
Publication Date: June 1960
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Issues: #22 of 49 Issues (61 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: 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
Format Notes:  
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The Planet That Vanished!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover comprised of interior scenes.
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Let Sleeping Robots Lie

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: Two men dig up a giant ancient statue. The statue turns out to be a robot. The robot is activated by sunlight and states that there are more robots like him buried in nearby locations. When the robot realizes that current humanity is untrustworthy, he digs himself back underground and deactivates.
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Pages: 6
Job Number: 6208
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The Last of the Flying Saucers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A private investigator puts an ad in various newspapers asking if anyone has seen flying saucers. When one man approaches him and claims he knows about flying saucers, its revealed that he's an alien criminal and the private investigator who put the ads in the paper is a cop from outer space tracking him on Earth.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Job Number: 6366
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The Giant

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: A couple of men are looking for a giant that is alleged to live in a remote valley. After constant searching, they take a break in a large hole believing that the giant is nothing but a myth. Little do they realize the hole they are resting in is a giant footprint!
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Pages: 2
Job Number: S3781
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Train Time to Trouble

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: A broker's nephew foretells a train disaster while playing with his toy trains.
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Pages: 2
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The Planet That Vanished

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: Denizens on the planet Quanta are terrified that the giant flying lizard monsters from the nearby planet Plexna are coming to destroy their world. Scientists find a way to shrink the planet to the size of a small marble to avoid detection from the monsters.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThrilling Science Fiction #2 published January 1999
as The Planet That Vanished [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
Job Number: 6367
Disclose Notes: Cover story.

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