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Issue: Uncanny Tales #187
Publication Date: January 1988
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Issues: #187 of 190 Issues (192 Printings)
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Publisher: FlagAlan Class
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Indicia Publisher: Alan Class & Co. Ltd
On Sale Date: 1988
Volume:
Pages: 52
ISBN:
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Price: £0.55 GBP
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Content Items: 17 (13 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: colour cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: 7.25" x 9.25"
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: squarebound
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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The Night of Red Snow

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Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
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From Content Item: FlagUnusual Tales #9 published November 1957
was The Night of Red Snow [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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[untitled]

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Farley's Other Face!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: crime
Character(s): Ted Farley; Barney Rubert; Gladys
Synopsis: A man steals a thousand dollars from a recluse that he had pretended to befriend, then pays to have his looks altered and fingerprints removed to avoid trouble with the police. It turns out that the wealthy recluse died shortly after the theft and left the thief his money, but he has no way to convince authorities that he was that man.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: K-679
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Flight Number Thirteen!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Franz; Ivan
Synopsis: Two criminals hijack an airplane full of strangely emotionless passengers. The airplane is piloted remotely into the parallel world that the passengers came from, where the air will drain the pilots' emotions.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: M-445
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The House That Cried!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Smitty; Elvira Lanson; Luke Lanson (flashback); Fred (flashback); Helen (flashback); Tony Fargo (flashback)
Synopsis: A hobo tries to rob an old woman in a dilapidated house who turns out to be a ghost.
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Pages: 3
Job Number: M-332
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The Ragged Man

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Genres: drama
Character(s): Otis Larr; Hubert Larr; Annie
Synopsis: A heartless businessman gets what's coming to him when the geiger counter he keeps on his yacht goes off and he spends all his money buying worthless land because he thinks that there is a fortune in uranium underwater. It turns out that there was a nuclear sub under his yacht at the time.
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Job Number: M-486
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When the Curtain Falls!

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Otto Groat; Carlotta Delys; Richard Sinclair
Synopsis: A jealous stagehand swaps a real dagger for a rubber prop hoping that his actor rival will stab himself and he will be free to pursue his love interest without competition. The actor only scratches himself, however, and when the stagehand becomes trapped he fails to free himself in time armed with merely a rubber dagger.
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Job Number: M-397
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The Terrible Tree!

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Ross Evans
Synopsis: A man weakens a large redwood tree so that it will fall on his farm and he can collect on the insurance policy. Objects made from the tree pursue vengeance upon him, until he finds himself trapped on a boat made of the tree out at sea.
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Job Number: M-319
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So This Is Mars!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Mr. Worth; Craig
Synopsis: A Martian filmmaker teleports a human filmmaker's Martian set to Mars and is disappointed to find human culture identical to Martian culture.
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Job Number: K-170
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What Is Monium?

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Burt Kane; Zorani
Synopsis: A man discovers a metal that when cut in two remains connected even though it appears that there is empty space between the parts. He starts a magic act where anything he tosses through one hoop pops out the other. An audience member discovers his secret and forces him into criminal acts. When the thief forces the man to construct a crate to hold the loot, he places the hoop inside the crate and breaks down the door he was imprisoned behind. He confronts the thief who attempts to escape through his hoop but finds himself inside the sealed crate on the way to the penitentiary.
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Job Number: K-85
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The Perfectly Frightened Man

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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Bob Franklin; Helen Franklin
Synopsis: A man is convinced by his wife that he is the victim of a hoax designed to make him think he has inherited sorcerous powers, but when he says "I'll be a monkey's uncle", he turns into one.
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Job Number: M-348
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He Saw the Future

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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Harry
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The Silent City!

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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Gustave Tarnal
Synopsis: A man finds that he can rob helpless frozen people if he stops all of the clocks in town but he forgets about a sundial.
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Job Number: L-246
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What On Earth?

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Albert Feldgurt
Synopsis: One man thinks that humans cannot achieve space travel, and must allow nature to take them to other worlds like seeds. He is ignored, but when he becomes a spiritual leader spreading the message of love his theory is proved, as people disappear under the warming power of love.
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Job Number: K-176
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Too Good to Be True!

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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Danny; Uncle George
Synopsis: A young boy imagines that he has a rich uncle who suddenly appears, but when he begins to doubt, the uncle fades away.
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Job Number: M-439
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Companion Comics in This Series

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Disclose Notes: House ad for the Alan Class range of comics. Back cover.

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