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Issue: Weird Wonder Tales #5

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Publication Date: August 1974

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Issues: #5 of 22 Issues (32 Printings)

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Variant: British

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

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Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: none

Price: £0.07 GBP

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
6 (4 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Modern Age U.S.

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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Weird Wonder Tales #5 [unnamed variant]

Weird Wonder Tales #5 [British]

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Content Items (6 total)

The Thing in Cell 13!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

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Subject Matter

Genres: horror

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Pages: 1

The Thing in Cell 13

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Hans Vogez

Synopsis: A corrupt police chief uses frivolous fines to fund a giant useless prison in order to increase his own prestige. He imprisons a passerby for no reason, but is shocked to find that he is the leader of a group of aliens who are in such a rush to leave that they take the whole prison when they cannot open his cell, leaving the chief disgraced and humbled.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: [V-26]

Greed!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Synopsis: A researcher receives telepathic signals from evil Martians, now long dead, who want him to build a machine that will allow them to cross space and conquer Earth. The gold that he gets through the machine as payment is now molten and buries him.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: [E-854]

Notes: reprint mistakenly identified as from Astonishing Tales #36

I, the Robot

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): The Human Robot [M-11]

Synopsis: A robot is given a command to kill the man in the room by someone who wishes to steal the robot after it has slain its creator. When the would-be thief enters the room, the robot slays him as well, then the robot goes out into the night looking for rooms to slay men in.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: [D-922]

Notes: The Human Robot next appears in What If? (Marvel, 1977 series) #9, in the superhero team eventually known as the Agents of Atlas.

The Invaders

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Synopsis: Aliens from a dry desert world park their invasion fleet on a large expanse of the ocean thinking it to be a solid surface, whereupon the ships sink like stones.

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Pages: 5

Bullpen Bonus Page

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

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Genres: superhero

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Pages: 1

Notes: house ad for Giant-Size Spider-Man (Marvel, 1974 series) #1