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Issue: Strange Suspense Stories #19 Public Domain
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Publisher: FlagCharlton
Indicia Publisher: Charlton Comics Group
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 15 (7 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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Cover, Front
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Title Page
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[untitled]

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horror
Reprinting
FlagTales Too Terrible to Tell #4 published January 1991
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
FlagThe Steve Ditko Archives #1 published October 2009
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Wraparound]cover detail
FlagThe Steve Ditko Archives #1 published October 2009
as Strange Suspense Stories #19 cover [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]cover
 
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In 10 Minutes of Fun a Day I Changed Myself

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sports
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Inside cover ad in black and white.
Indicia at the bottom of page.
Give Back My Body

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Subject Matter
crime, horror
The body of Lefty Riccardi dies in the electric chair, but his mind has been transferred to broker John Billings. Two detectives solve this mystery.
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cover story. Molno art per Martin O'Hearn's blog: http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2014/10/joe-shusters-charlton-ghost.html
All Burnt Up

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crime
Gangster Blenheim hides at the house of a friend. A boy living there gives him nothing but trouble.
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Memling script per Martin O'Hearn's blog: http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2016/04/carl-memling-suspense-stories.html
Surprise Package

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crime
Gustav Perrin steals a miniature atom bomb, but loses it to a suicidal stranger who jumps off a building with it.
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Write-in contest for readers to send in their story ending.
Destructive Death

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crime, horror
Violinist Jan Sagoro can collapse buildings by playing the right "vibrating point". He blackmails the city.
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You Know Too Much!

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crime
A "Mr. Average American" turns knife murderer at night and seeks the professional help of a psychiatrist.
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A Nice Quiet Place!

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crime
Tony and Chopper enter their quiet hideout in the mountains, but get attacked by a mountain lion.
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FlagThe Steve Ditko Archives #1 published October 2009
as A Nice Quiet Place! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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High Tension

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crime
The surviving acrobat falls as well and lands on the unfaithful wife.
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Miscellaneous
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Reader's ending to write-in contest in "Strange Suspense Stories" #16
Complete Baffling Magic Outfit 20 First Class Illusions

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Be a magician - fool and delight your friends with a full 2 hour mystery show.
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Ad for various magic tricks from Honor House Products.
Now Fly Like a Bird!

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With wings made from the original sketch of Leonardo Da Vinci's flying wings!
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Ad offering a book titled "The Birdman - The Story of Leonardo Da Vinci", for 98-cents plus postage - with a free 10-day trial, from Stravon Publishers. Ad features such enticing ad copy as "Now any adventure loving boy can build Da Vinci's flying wings with just ordinary carpenter's tools. Remember these are not toy wings but real Da Vinci flying wings."
How to Hypnotize

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It's easy to hypnotize... when you know how.
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Ad for ordering book on How to Hypnotize, from Stravon Publishers.
Gain More Weight in 10 Days Or Your Money Back!

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Inside back cover ad for modern medical technique to put more weight on lean bodies.
Friends! Here's How to Get at Almost No Cost Your New Real, Live Miniature Dog

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Mrs. Ruth Long (Gift Manager Dean Studios); miniature dog
Supply limited send today!
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Ad for photograph enlargement prints, offering a free miniature dog as an incentive premium. Full figure Back cover ad with photo of the miniature dog saying "Please give me a home" via a comic-style dialogue balloon. A penciled and inked woman's hand holds the dog (seen as a photo) in her palm.
Head and shoulders photo of Mrs. Ruth Long also speaking via a comic-style dialogue balloon and quoted in the text copy of the ad... "I'll be happy to send you without you paying a penny, this loveable, young, miniature dog that is so tiny when even fully grown you can carry it in your pocket or hold it in one hand, yet it barks and is a reliable watch dog as well as a pet. You can keep it in a shoebox and enjoy many amusing hours teaching it tricks... active, healthy, intelligent, and clean."
Any Photo Copied

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20 billfold size pictures $1
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Bottom of back cover ad offering 20 billfold size prints of any photo for one dollar. Cash, as well as checks or money orders, is accepted by mail - with any enclosed photos. The two photo reproduction vendors sharing this page could very well be the same entity, as both are in Des Moines, IA. On final interior page of the comic.

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