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Issue: The Outer Limits #1
Publication Date: January 1964
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Issues: #1 of 18 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: Dell [post-split]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/07/1963
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 5 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1964 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

Cover and comic contents are all reprint. No interior ads in this issue. Ads are limited to inside and back covers.
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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 series
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No Weapons on Earth Can Defeat the Strange Creatures from Outer Space!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): three huge upright-walking bug-like aliens; Professor Walters (scientist); Dan Dalton (reporter); Joseph Grindly (New York City Bureau of Missing Persons file clerk), various police, various military
Synopsis: Three advancing bug-like aliens show themselves to be impervious to weapons fire.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Outer Limits #17 published October 1968
as No Weapons on Earth Can Defeat the Strange Creatures from Outer Space! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1
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The Thrills and Action Are Real with Gilbert Auto-Rama

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): A. C. Gilbert Co.
First Line: Featuring the spectacular new Fly-Over Chicane
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for Gilbert model racing cars, featuring the new "Fly-Over Chicane". Black and white ad on inside front cover.
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Battleground of Monsters

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): three huge upright-walking bug-like aliens; Professor Walters (scientist); Dan Dalton (reporter); Joseph Grindly (New York City Bureau of Missing Persons file clerk), various police, various military, various panicked citizens of New York City.
First Line: Boat horns blare, hands and handkerchiefs wave, as an excited, expectant crowd watches the graceful Queen Mary being nosed into her dock by four tending tugs that churn up the Hudson's calm water into white wakes!
Synopsis: A century of missing persons cases, at regular and specific intervals, leads to a cosmic swap with three benevolent aliens - soon followed by five warlike ones.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Outer Limits #17 published October 1968
as Battleground of Monsters [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 32
Disclose Notes: Newman is credited with scripts in The Comic Reader #32, December 1964.
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213 Stamps

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photos)
Inker(s): ? (photos)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Zenith Co.
First Line: The most exciting offer we have made to stamp collectors
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad from Zenith Co. of Brooklyn, New York offering 213 stamps, 88 flags of the world, 14 Confederate States facsimiles in color, and midget encyclopedia of stamp collecting for 25ยข. Also get stamps "on approval" that must be sent back within 10 days if not wanted.

Black and white ad on inside back cover.
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It's a Daisy!

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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Daisy Manufacturing Company
Character(s): boy in pajamas near Christmas tree holding air-rifle
First Line: Aren't these beauties? Picking the one you'd like most for Christmas will be hard, but after you've decided, check the box next to your favorite.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad picturing six different models of Daisy B-B air rifles with adjacent check-bokes, and numbered descriptions of each. Color ad on back cover.

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