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Issue: Sinister Tales #83
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Issues: #83 of 229 Issues (231 Printings)
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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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By the Light of the Moon!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Lucas
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From Content Item: FlagMystery Tales #49 published January 1957
was By the Light of the Moon! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1
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Jeweled Sceptre

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, mystery
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Pages: 1
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By the Light of the Moon!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Lucas Morse
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-63
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Something in the Fog

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Howard Dalton
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Pages: 4
Job Number: K-981
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The Double Man!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): George; Paul
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Pages: 4
Job Number: L-73
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Four Empty Chairs!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: A man's family disappears one evening and a stranger explains to the town sheriff that they are from another dimension waiting for a lightning bolt of sufficient strength to send them all back to their home dimension. The sheriff thinks the story is nonsense but suddenly a powerful lightning bolt flashes and both the stranger and the man have disappeared as well.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: L-424
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The Empty Room!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Lord Ainsley
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Pages: 4
Job Number: K-466
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The Hands of Hogarr!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Carl Gruko; Hogarr; Inspector Baynard
First Line: I warned him, but he wouldn't listen to me!
Synopsis: A fugitive forces a gypsy to give him a new face, but he is captured because it is the same face as his pursuer.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: V-116
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When They Wake Up!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Norris; Crane
First Line: The sleepers had slept undisturbed for countless ages, but the men who found them only thought... how could they profit by it... when they wake up!
Synopsis: Cave explorers find men in suspended animation who possess advanced technology from an ancient civilization and lie to them that present day humanity is evil so they will help them conquer. The sleepers simply drug the two explorers so that they will join them in their sleep until they are awakened in a civilized era.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: K-516
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The Only Woman!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Ted Davis
First Line: The answer to Ted Davis's loneliness hung about the neck of a princess!
Synopsis: A man steals a pendant from a museum hoping that it get him a girlfriend, but the mummy's undead guards retrieve it from him.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: K-631
Disclose Notes: Familton credit per Frank Motler and Michael J. Vassallo from Atlas Tales. Wessler credit per biblio info published in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 26, No. 4, April 2015.
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Just Your Luck

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Lester Ford; Marie Ford; Lady Luck
Synopsis: A businessman doesn’t believe in luck, but several beneficial encounters with an old lady change his mind.
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Pages: 2
Job Number: G-377
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Masquerade Party

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Cara Frost; Alice Bond (née Dodd); Rex Bond
Synopsis: A beautiful but vicious socialite spoils the plans of an old rival by throwing a masquerade party. She is scared by her rival’s husband, who tricks her into thinking he is a demon.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: V-106
Disclose Notes: The last two panels were added by a different artist, possibly Sol Brodsky, likely due to a Comics Code problem. The ending is altered so that the demon/devil is a normal man in disguise.
Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
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The Strange Man!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Mark Trent
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Pages: 3
Job Number: K436
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The Menace of Shandu!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Tommy Jones; Shandu the genie
Synopsis: A boy finds a magic book in a used bookstore and summons a genie, which vows to torture him after granting his wish. He wishes for everything to be restored to before he went to the bookshop, and he does not buy the book a second time.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: V-108
Disclose Notes: The plot for this story was reused in "It's Only Magic!" by Stan Lee and John Buscema in Chamber of Darkness # 1, October 1969.
Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
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From Out of the Black Pit Came...Grogg!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Grogg (introduction); Miklos Kozlov (introduction); Col. Fedor Vorcutsky
Synopsis: A reluctant Soviet scientist wakes the ancient dragon Grogg with atomic tests. The dragon attacks the soldiers and gives the scientist the opportunity to defect to the US, just as he had hoped, since he knew in advance that Grogg existed.
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Pages: 13
Job Number: V-107
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and
part two—"The Awesome Vengeance of Grogg" (7 pp). Story is pages 3-7, 10-14, 16-18 of comic (pages numbered 1 to 13).
The last page includes an editorial note that reads: "Want to see MORE of Grogg? Write Stan Lee, Strange Tales, 655 Madison Ave., N.Y.C. 21, N.Y."

Grogg and Kozlov next appear in issue #87 (August 1961).
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The Man with No Face!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Danny Rice
First Line: How can you hide from a police officer who knows exactly what you're thinking?
Synopsis: A mind-reading detective pursues a criminal until he falls in love with his daughter and resolves to turn himself in.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: K-474
Disclose Notes: Wessler credit per biblio info published in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 26, No. 4, April 2015.
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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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