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Issue: Forbidden Worlds #130 Public Domain
Publication Date: September 1965
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Issues: #130 of 145 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagAmerican Comics Group
Brand: American Comics Group ACGView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Best Syndicated Features Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/24/1965
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Richard Hughes [as Richard E. Hughes] (Editor)
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1965 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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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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Magicman Vs. the Wizard of Science!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Magicman
Character(s): Magicman
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMagicman Archives #[nn] published December 2008
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: According to Schaffenberger in a 1998 letter, many covers at ACG were penciled and inked by him, but signed by Pete Costanza because DC editor Mort Weisinger (for whom Schaffenberger worked on the Superman Family titles at that time) did not want him drawing superhero covers for other companies.
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Magicman vs. the Wizard of Science!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Magicman
Character(s): Magicman [Tom Cargill]; Wizard of Science [Waldo Sissinger] (villain); Fidel Castro
Synopsis: Magicman is captured by the Wizard of Science and forced to make a propaganda broadcast endorsing Fidel Castro.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMagicman Archives #[nn] published December 2008
In Content Item: FlagStrange Stories #1 published January 1998
as The Wizard of Science [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagACG's Heroes #[nn] published January 2002
as Magicman vs. the Wizard of Science! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Letters submitted by John Pierce, Mark Patrican, Mark Porter, Jason Wight, Jr., Ignacio Arroyo, Jr., and L. L. Simpson.
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Stone Age Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Character(s): Chesley Grimmick
Synopsis: Chesley Grimmick is mysteriously transported back in time to prehistoric days where he befriends the cavemen there and eventually dies. In the present, his skeleton and watch are unearthed by two paleontologists who cannot understand what they have found.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAdventures into the Unknown #112 published November 1959
was Out of the Past! [Story on Interior Page(s)]retitled
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Lundgren pseudonym noted by Jerry Bails' Who's Who of American Comic Books. Original title: "Out of the Past."
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Gangway for Gasps!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, superhero
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: house ad for Adventures into the Unknown (American Comics Group, 1948 series), featuring Nemesis, and Herbie (American Comics Group, 1964 series)
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The Ghost That Died!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): James Wilkes; Pierre; Henry Matthews; Steven Matthews
Synopsis: Henry Matthews enlists the aid of a ghost hunter to destroy the ghost of his nephew Steven. He doesn't realize that his nephew's ghost was trying to warn him to avoid the madman who killed Steven, so he is murdered too.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9

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