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Issue: Fear #5
Publication Date: November 1971
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Issues: #5 of 31 Issues (40 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Magazine Management Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/15/1971
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 9 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1971 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress with a correction factor of plus 28 days.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched (#1-6 squarebound)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted anywhere.
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I Am the Gorilla Man!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Gorilla-Man [Franz Radzic]
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #28 [unnamed variant] published February 1962
was I Am the Gorilla-Man! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover is from an unaltered stat. Background elements and the man's face were changed before publication, as seen on the cover of Creepy Worlds #157.
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I Am the... Gorilla-Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Gorilla-Man [Franz Radzic]
Synopsis: A scientist plans to exchange his brain with a gorilla's so that he can use the gorilla's strength to commit burglaries.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #28 [unnamed variant] published February 1962
was I Am the... Gorilla-Man [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: [V-488]
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. The sequel is also reprinted in this issue.
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One Look Means Doom!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Charles Grey; Sarah Grey; Medusa the Gorgon
Synopsis: A man avoids the deadly gaze of Medusa because he is blind.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #73 [U.S. Cover Price] published October 1961
was One Look Means Doom! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-347
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Rocket Ship X-200

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Charlie Brewster
Synopsis: An aging space pilot is mocked for his slow ship, but when an invading armada approaches Earth, his ship is the first to see it. Other ships are moving too fast to see the sneak attack coming, and his warning allows Earth to beat back the invasion, making him a hero and the commander of a new space patrol.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #69 published June 1959
was Rocket Ship X-200 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: [T-227]
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What Lurks on Channel X?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Bill Jones; Ruth Jones; Mr. Cragley; Jordan
Synopsis: Bill and Ruth receive a free television set but it comes from Plutonian invaders who plan to hypnotice Earthlings. The plot is foiled by a crabby landlord who tears down the aliens' antenna.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #73 [U.S. Cover Price] published October 1961
was What Lurks on Channel X? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-345
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person.
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Menace from Mars!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: Martians come to Earth to discover if humans represent a threat to them. They question a human using a machine to verify his answers, and find that he is totally free of greed, hatred or deceit. The Martians leave satisfied, unaware that they questioned a mental patient.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #73 [U.S. Cover Price] published October 1961
was Menace from Mars! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: [V-346]
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[untitled]

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
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The Return of the Gorilla-Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Gorilla-Man [Franz Radzic]; Professor Stuyvesant
Synopsis: Radzic thinks he will be able to exchange his brain back into his own body, but things don't work out.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #30 [U.S. Cover Price] published April 1962
was The Return of the Gorilla-Man [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: V-586 ?
Disclose Notes: Sequel to this issue's first story. Job number speculative on basis of other stories in original printing.
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Indisputably Irrelevant Items of Incontestably Lasting Inconsequence!

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Stan Lee's Soapbox; Items.

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