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Issue: Ripley's Believe It or Not! #86
Publication Date: February 1979
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Issues: #86 of 94 Issues (145 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagWestern
Brand: Gold KeyView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Western Publishing Company Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/1978
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0335009020802
Price: $0.35 USD
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Content Items: 6 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Cover code: 90208-902. Edited out of Western Publishing's New York offices.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age U.S.; later standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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The Born-Again Queen

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Professor Fritz Kampf; Nefertiti
First Line: She was born again - to live a lifetime in one year!
Synopsis: Professor Fritz Kampf excavates a statue of Egyptian Queen Nefertiti.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Title derived from the issue's lead story.
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The Born-Again Queen!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, fantasy
Character(s): Professor Fritz Kampf; Dr. Borchardt; Achmed; Nefertiti; Stern
First Line: The Nile is its mother, the desert sands its father, and mystery is the essence of Egypt
Synopsis: In 1930, Egyptian Queen Nefertiti is reborn to live a year of happiness with Thutmes (reincarnated as Egyptologist Professor Fritz Kampf).
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In Content Item: FlagGespenster Geschichten #295 published ?
as Das Geheimnis der Seelenwanderer [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Story begins in 1912 and ends in 1930.
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Pierre's Contest

Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Feature(s): Hostess; Richie Rich
Character(s): Richie Rich; Chef Pierre
Synopsis: Chef Pierre intends to win ze annual dessert contest.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Hostess Fruit Pie advertisement in comic strip format.
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Who Goes There?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, historical, horror
Character(s): Jensen (sentry); commander
First Line: In 1870, as a sentry makes his rounds at the ancient Tower of London, he senses that he is being watched...
Synopsis: A sentry at the Tower of London has a sudden encounter with a huge bear.
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In Content Item: FlagGespenster Geschichten #290 published ?
as Im Bann des Geisterbären [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
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The Welcoming Spirit

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, fantasy
Character(s): Baron Clyde Lowes; Nurse Carlton; Edwina Prentice; Marcy Lowes; various Lowes family members
First Line: As his nurse wheels the 94-year old Baron Lowes onto the terrace of his home, the old man sighs...
Synopsis: A lonely old man is delighted by a surprise family gathering at his home, arranged by his nurse. But one more guest visits the home than was planned for.
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In Content Item: FlagGespenster Geschichten #295 published ?
as Die Freundin aus dem Geisterreich [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
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Time for Justice

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, historical, military, war
Character(s): Colonel Gurley; Nolty (bearded-giant bummer); Nolty's gang; Lt. Edwin Gurley (son of Colonel Gurley); sergeant; second gang of bummers.
First Line: As the Civil War rages through the South in 1863, Colonel Gurley is alone in his abandoned plantation home!
Synopsis: During the Civil War, Nolty and his gang of bummers invade the plantation home of Colonel Gurley, killing him, pillaging and then burning his house to the ground. His son, Lt. Edwin Gurley, out to avenge his father, finds a most unconventional proof of justice having been done.
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In Content Item: FlagGespenster Geschichten #292 published ?
as Der Richter aus dem Jenseits [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Script credit per Newman's records published in Robin Snyder's History of the Comics, Vol 2, # 8, August 1991.

"Bummers" were Union soldiers attached to General Sherman who, on Sherman's "March to the Sea", forcibly took what they needed and destroyed the rest as they advanced through the Carolinas and Georgia. (Paraphrased from Wikipedia)

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