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Issue: Sinister Tales #74
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Issues: #74 of 229 Issues (231 Printings)
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Publisher: FlagAlan Class
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Indicia Publisher: Alan Class & Co. Ltd
On Sale Date: (not set)
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Pages: 68
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Price: 12.0 pence GBQ 0-1-0
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Content Items: 12 (10 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: perfect bound
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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His Magic Is Powerless to Save Mandrake as He Plunges toward Certain Death!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
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Pages: 1
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Specter from Space

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, science fiction, superhero
Character(s): Mandrake; Lothar
Synopsis: Visitors from another world are coming to earth, and announce their friendly intentions. Governments around the world acknowledge them and search through the skies to find them, to no avail. The visitors are microscopic.
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Pages: 15
Disclose Notes: Adaptation of newspaper strip stories. Scripting credit from Martin O'Hearn.
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The Pirate Raiders

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Phantom; Teekan
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Pages: 4
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The Return of the Living Robot!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Living Robot [John]; Cyril Stretford
First Line: The police--the government--they all think me dead!
Synopsis: The fugitive robot impersonates a prominent MP to lift the robot ban. The MP escapes and defeats the robot with his bare hands, since he is also a robot, secretly protecting humanity.
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Pages: 5
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The Phantom Casino

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Lucky Larry Yates; Mandrake; Lothar; Police Chief
Synopsis: Lucky Larry builds a Casino on a blimp, and to avoid the laws against it he floats it 3 miles up before he allows gambling. Mandrake gets the pilot to land the blimp unbeknownst to Larry so he can be arrested for running an illegal casino.
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Pages: 9
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Music From Above

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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Joe; Gus; Angelo
Synopsis: A struggling band takes on a poor but talented young harp player who turns out to be a young angel studying on Earth.
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Pages: 2
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Earth Will Be Destroyed!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: Behold the planet of Gorgon!!
Synopsis: Aliens plot to devastate Earth before invading, but they cannot pinpoint its location. They are unaware that they are on Earth as a speck of dust in a petri dish, which is casually discarded.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: T-641
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the third person. This story is retold with a single creature in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #18 (April 1961) as "Monsteroso!" drawn by Steve Ditko and in Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series) #9 (February 1962 series) as "The Terror of Tim Boo Baa" by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. Stan Lee is speculatively credited as the writer on the basis of his authorship of the second re-telling.
Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
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To Fight Is To Die

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Editor(s): Sam Schwartz
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Lightning; Dr. Forkliff; Mockman
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Pages: 10
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I Escaped to Another World!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Dr. Kermanki
First Line: The year was 1962...
Synopsis: A prisoner escapes and uses a time machine to travel into the past, but he accidentally kills his own ancestor, erasing himself.
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Pages: 5
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The Man Who Never Returned

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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Eddie Peakes
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Pages: 3
Job Number: K-571
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Crawl or Die

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Bill Robbins
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Pages: 8
Job Number: A-5355
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Companion Comics in this Series

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1

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