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Merlin the Mad!

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Thor [Doctor Donald Blake]; Merlin [Maha Yogi]

First Line: Behold, Thor... your power is nothing compared to the mystic arts at my command!

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Boys! Men! My Secret New Dynaflex Method

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Character(s): Mike Marvel (photo)

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Notes: Ad for Dynaflex body-building course for $1.98 inside front cover.

Defying the Magic of... Mad Merlin!

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Thor [Doctor Donald Blake]; Merlin [Maha Yogi] (introduction); Jane Foster; Loki (cameo); President John F. Kennedy (cameo); Caroline Kennedy (cameo); Pierre Salinger (cameo); King Arthur (cameo, flashback)

First Line: Hey, professor!

Synopsis: Merlin is awakened after a thousand years and immediately decides to try and take over the world. He battles Thor using familiar Washington D.C. monuments. Thor defeats Merlin and forces him to return to sleep.

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Pages: 13

Notes: This 'Merlin' was revealed to be an imposter in Avengers Annual #22. In most of his appearances he calls himself 'Maha Yogi'. He has been said to be a mutant, but this is also false.

The Traveler

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Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Bill Swift; Mr. Allen

First Line: Bill Swift hated his set, daily routine.

Synopsis: A bored man working on an assembly line is taken to outer space in his dreams, and is given an idea for an otherworldly invention.

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Pages: 1

Job Number: [J-865]

Notes: Between pages 5 and 6 of previous story sequence. Continues in next issue.

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First Line: Free with any purchase

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Pages: 0.5

Notes: Advertisement for Centre Coin Company’s Lincoln Penny Album.
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First Line: Record your voice at home

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Notes: Advertisement for Honor House Products Corporation’s recording equipment.
On lower half of page between “The Traveler” prose story and page 6 of the Thor comic story.

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First Line: Curious coins! Odd paper money!

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Pages: 0.5

Notes: Advertisement for Littleton Coin Company’s packet of coins and money.
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First Line: Instant live sea animals

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Notes: Advertisement for Bargain Company's exotic Saskatchewan Brine Shrimp (Sea-Monkeys).
On lower half of page between pages 10 and 11 of the Thor comic story.

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Character(s): Mickey Mouse; Jiminy Cricket; Dopey; Cinderella; Donald Duck; Sleeping Beauty; Peter Pan; Davy Crockett; Pinocchio: Zorrro

First Line: America's most lovable characters from ...Walt Disney's wonderful world

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Notes: Advertisement for Mother Hubbard's king-size latex toys.
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First Line: Reward $11,750.00 for this coin!

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Notes: Advertisement for Best Values Company's 1963 catalog.
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Call Her...Medusa!

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Genres: science fiction

Character(s): John

First Line: You who are mortal, beware!

Synopsis: The gorgons of myth were aliens and send an agent to modern Earth preceding an invasion. She cannot turn the first men she encounters to stone, but since she doesn't know that they're blind the invasion is cancelled.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: X-385

Notes: Job number revealed on original art. Info per Nick Caputo: http://www.artnet.com/artists/larry-lieber/larry-lieber-and-paul-reinman-journey-into-uKnuwcG9uKiVXx0-Dug_3g2

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First Line: Grog grows own tail

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Notes: Advertisement for Western World Products product.
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First Line: Boys 12 or older make $1 to $5 weekly in your spare time

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Notes: Advertisement for GRIT Publishing Company's bundle of papers, selling help and prize offers.
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Marvel Comics Group Ushers in the Marvel Age of Comics!

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Feature(s): Strange Tales

Character(s): Spider-Man; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Mr. Fantastic; Invisible Girl; Thing [Ben Grimm]; Dr. Doom

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Notes: Advertises the Fantastic Four Annual (Marvel, 1963 series) #1 (1963); Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #2 (1963)[unpublished version with word balloons and backgrounds] and a blurb and logo announcing the X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series).

Stamps; Shop by Mail

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First Line: Stamp collecting outfit

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Notes: Multiple small ads for stamps and other products.

Frederick Fenton's Future!

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Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Frederick Fenton

First Line: Frederick Fenton had one burning ambition--to visit the future!

Synopsis: An arrogant rich man builds a time machine in order gain the secret to eternal life from the future. When he arrives he finds that the Earth that humanity has gone to a paradise planet, and his time machine will not take him back.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: X-386

Notes: This is a retelling of "The Man in the Iron Box" drawn by Carl Burgos in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #69 (June 1959); the earlier story uses suspended animation to achieve the same effect.

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First Line: Give me just one evening and I'll teach you to hypnotize easily!

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Notes: Ad for hypnotism lessons.

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First Line: Amazing new home training plan in auto repairing

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Notes: Ad for a home study course teaching auto mechanics.

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First Line: 100 toy soldiers

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Notes: Inside back cover. Ad for toy soldiers, vehicles, vessels and planes.

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First Line: Boys, girls, men, women

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Notes: Back cover. Ad for the Wallace Brown line of Christmas cards.