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Issue: Steve Ditko Reader #[1]
Publication Date: January 2002
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Issues: #[1] of 3 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagPure Imagination
Brand: PIView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Pure Imagination Publishing
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 164
ISBN: 1566850118
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $25.00 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 28 (22 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: There's a second printing from 2008. On the front cover, the text "Pure Imagination $25.00" and "160 Pages!!!" is white instead of pink.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black & white interior
Dimensions: 8.5" x 11"
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Binding:  
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Gorgo
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From Content Item: FlagGorgo #4 [unnamed variant] published November 1961
was Monster Against Spaceship [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Blank Pages

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Disclose Notes: The inside front cover and inside back cover are blank.
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The Steve Ditko Reader

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Title page with splash panel reprinted from the interior story "The Conquered Earth."
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Credits

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Credits
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Disclose Notes: "This volume is dedicated to Eric Stanton, Ditko's long-time pal."
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The Road To Spider-Man

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Character(s): Silver Spider; Night Fighter
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 24
Disclose Notes: Article is illustrated with comics page and panel reprints and pinups from Ditko and other artists. Includes photograph of Eric Stanton.
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Die Laughing!

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Genres: horror
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From Content Item: FlagThe Thing #13 published April 1954
was Die Laughing! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Library Of Horror

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Genres: horror
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From Content Item: FlagThe Thing #13 published April 1954
was Library of Horror [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
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Dead Reckoning

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
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From Content Item: FlagSpace Adventures #11 published May 1954
was Dead Reckoning! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
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No Bars Could Hold Him

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Genres: science fiction
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From Content Item: FlagMystery Tales #45 published September 1956
was No Bars Could Hold Him! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 3
Job Number: K-307
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The Conquered Earth

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: science fiction
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From Content Item: FlagOut of This World #4 published June 1957
was The Conquered Earth [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
Job Number: S-1495
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The Last One

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Genres: mystery
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From Content Item: FlagThis Magazine Is Haunted #12 published July 1957
was The Last One [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
Job Number: S-1936
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He's Coming For Me!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: mystery
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From Content Item: FlagUnusual Tales #9 published November 1957
was He's Coming for Me [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
Job Number: S-2047
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The Desert Spell

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: mystery
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From Content Item: FlagStrange Suspense Stories #34 published November 1957
was The Desert Spell [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
Job Number: S-2042
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The Secret Room

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Genres: mystery
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From Content Item: FlagOut of This World #6 published November 1957
was The Secret Room [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
Job Number: S-2541
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Plague

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: science fiction
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From Content Item: FlagOut of This World #6 published November 1957
was Plague [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
Job Number: S-2208
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From Out Of The Depths

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Genres: horror, mystery
Feature(s): Dr. Haunt
Synopsis: Juan fights against the thing that comes out of the sea.
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From Content Item: FlagThis Magazine Is Haunted #14 published December 1957
was From Out of the Depths [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
Job Number: S-2612
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The King Of Planetoid X

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Genres: science fiction
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From Content Item: FlagMysteries of Unexplored Worlds #7 published February 1958
was The King of Planetoid X [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
Job Number: S-1282
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The Heel And The Healer

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Genres: fantasy, mystery
Synopsis: A medicine-show man encounters a healer with a real cure-all, but loses his chance to use it for good.
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From Content Item: FlagTales of the Mysterious Traveler #7 published March 1958
was The Heel and the Healer [Story on Interior Page(s)][1]
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Pages: 7
Job Number: S-2660
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And The Fear Grew

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Genres: horror, mystery
Synopsis: A man adopts an animal in Australia the aborigines think is evil.
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From Content Item: FlagTales of the Mysterious Traveler #7 published March 1958
was And the Fear Grew [Story on Interior Page(s)][1]
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Pages: 5
Job Number: S-2633
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The Greater Jovians

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Genres: science fiction
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From Content Item: FlagOuter Space #20 published December 1958
was The Greater Jovians [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
Job Number: S-4440
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Far Away Voices

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Genres: mystery
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From Content Item: FlagOuter Space #20 published December 1958
was Far Away Voices [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
Job Number: S-4525
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The Juggernauts Of Jupiter

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Genres: science fiction
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From Content Item: FlagUnusual Tales #15 published February 1959
was The Juggernauts of Jupiter [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
Job Number: S-4714
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They Must Be Like Us

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Genres: science fiction
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From Content Item: FlagUnusual Tales #15 published February 1959
was They Must Be Like Us [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
Job Number: S-4582
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The Mirror

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Genres: fantasy, mystery
Synopsis: A magic mirror convinces landlord Peter Festro to change his ways.
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From Content Item: FlagUnusual Tales #15 published February 1959
was The Mirror [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
Job Number: S-4841
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The Green Unknown

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Genres: mystery
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From Content Item: FlagMysteries of Unexplored Worlds #19 published July 1960
was The Green Unknown [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
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The Human Powerhouse

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: science fiction
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From Content Item: FlagStrange Suspense Stories #48 published July 1960
was The Human Powerhouse [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
Job Number: 6209
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The Creature From Corpus III

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Gorgo
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From Content Item: FlagThe Return of Gorgo #2 [unnamed variant] published January 1963
was The Creature from Corpus III [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 20
Job Number: A-2851
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The Steve Ditko Reader

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. Teaser for issue with splash panel reprinted from interior story "Library of Horror."

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