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Issue: Tales Calculated to Drive You Bats #5

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Publication Date: July 1962

Issue #5
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Detail

Issues: #5 of 7 Issues (12 Printings)

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Variant: 15¢

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Archie Publications, Inc.

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Indicia Publisher: Close-Up Inc.

On Sale Date: 04/16/1962

Volume: none

Pages: 36

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Price: $0.15 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
11 (8 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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Notes: A test market variant, with 15¢ cover price of a general distribution issue with 12¢ cover price. On-sale date from 1962 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

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Format

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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2 Tales Calculated to Drive You Bats #5 [unnamed variant]

Tales Calculated to Drive You Bats #5 [15¢]

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Content Items (11 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

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Genres: humorous

First Line: What's the matter buddy, can't you read?

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Pages: 1

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Table of Contents on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Igor; Freddie

First Line: Look, Igor - Chubby Checker has nothing on me!

Synopsis: Igor and Freddie dancing around a 33 1/3 rpm record, with contents at bottom of page. Reference to "The Twist" from 1960 by Chubby Checker.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Freddie is a bat

The Cat Girl

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Freddie

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Pages: 5

Something Fishy

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Genres: humorous

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Pages: 2

Tin Pan Folly

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Freddie; Flip Syde

Synopsis: After thinking that rock and roll will blow over, Flip Syde's record company goes downhill. That is, until Flip discovers singing birds.

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Pages: 6

The Secret Is Out!

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: humorous, teen

Feature(s): Archie

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Pages: 1

Notes: House ad for Archie Annual #14.

Monsterama

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Freddie

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Pages: 5

Charms and Spells for the 20th Century

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Hilda

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Freddie's Advice to the Lovelorn Column

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Genres: humorous

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Hip Man Wrinkle

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Hip Man Wrinkle; Igor

Synopsis: Hip Man Wrinkle, a beatnik, falls asleep and wakes up in 2292, where he finds things radically different.

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Pages: 5

Egg-o-Centric

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Genres: humorous

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Pages: 1