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Issue: Sinister Tales #79
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Publisher: FlagAlan Class
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Indicia Publisher: Alan Class & Co. Ltd
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Pages: 68
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Price: 12.0 pence GBQ 0-1-0
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Content Items: 17 (15 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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The Ghost Came C.O.D.!

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Subject Matter
science fiction
Charlie Rompel
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The Case of Flight 101

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non-fiction
Flight 101 leaving for Chile in three minutes!
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The Ghost Came C.O.D.

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fantasy, science fiction
Eban Goad; Charles Rompel
A schemer comes up with the idea to send off invoices to the recently deceased figuring grieving widows will just pay the invoice to take care of the matter quickly. The fraud works until one of the dead comes back to his shop and reveals himself as a Martian living within the body of a human. The Martian silences the schemer.
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The Eerie Experiment!

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science fiction
Ben Darrow; Howie Barnes; Phil Walker; Mark Nichols; The Friends Club [Peter Ivanov; Barney Graham; John Barr [Joe Berrie]; Henry Adamo [Herbert Franklin]; Wallace]
Two men in 1977 using a radio attempt to warn a government agent breaking up a communist spy ring in the past.
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The Last Patrol!

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Subject Matter
war
Dominick Scalzo; Pietro Goglia
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L-607
Turn Back the Clock!

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Subject Matter
fantasy
Ambrose McAllister
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The Guerilla!

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war
Pancho Villa
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I Unleashed Shagg Upon the World!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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science fiction
Shagg
An explorer wakes the Sphinx, really a robot warrior called Shagg. Since it was awakened too early, it wipes the memories of his rampage and returns to hibernation. The only evidence left is the explorer’s journal.
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You're In the Marines

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war
Boot-Camp Brady
Pat Brady
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Time Machine

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Subject Matter
science fiction
I think the first time I really began to think seriously about the...
A man's fascination with history leads him to build a time machine and travel to the past, but when he sees the dangers of time travel he destroys the machine and blueprints.
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The Secret of the Mystic Ring

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fantasy
Arnold Harris; Marie Barnes
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Withdrawal!

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Subject Matter
war
Lt. Sam Brewer
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The Enemy!

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Subject Matter
fantasy
Bill Hastings
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I Learned the Monsterous Secret of Bombu!

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fantasy
Bombu; Mr. Mason; Luis
Explorers meet a witch doctor named Bombu, who seems to possess real power. He is killed by lightning and when they find that his mask is really his face they realize that he was an alien.
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The Mark of A Marine!

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war
Boot-Camp Brady
Sergeant Brady
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The Squad That Had to Get Thru!

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war
Torchy
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Companion Comics in this Series

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