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Issue: Sinister Tales #86
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Issues: #86 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: 19 (17 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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Quicksand

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Pages: 1
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Animal Life

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: nature, non-fiction
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Quicksand!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Geoffrey Wickshire; Sir Edmund Wickshire
First Line: Beneath the hungry sand there lurked an incredible secret!
Synopsis: A greedy man tries to kill his brother to gain his half of the estate by tricking him into quicksand. The brother is saved by leprechauns and would have given up his half of the estate, but the greedy brother is so frightened that he falls to his death.
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Pages: 7
Job Number: V-669
Disclose Notes: The third and sixth pages include advertisements for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series). Ink credit changed from Steve Ditko on information from Steve Grant (Dec 2, 2005).
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The Bully Boy!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Henry Fuller
First Line: In spite of all our scientific advances, this story could not happen yet!
Synopsis: An electronic teacher observes a weak student being bullied and offers to train him in body building and fighting styles. When the student excels and becomes an even bigger bully than the others, the robot is disappointed with the results and deactivates itself.
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Pages: 6
Job Number: V-670
Disclose Notes: The second and fifth pages include advertisements for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series).
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Valley of No Return!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Greg; Burt
Synopsis: While hunting in the woods, Burt prevents Greg from shooting a white eagle. The two almost die in the wilderness but are led to safety by the same white eagle and according to a legend, it's the form of a Native chief.
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Pages: 3
Job Number: L-41
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The Girl in the Black Hood!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: horror
Character(s): Medusa [May Dusa]; Mr. Jones
First Line: She had wealth, she had fame!
Synopsis: A famous photographer never allows anyone to see her face. A criminal tries to rob her and forces her to remove her hood, only to discover that she is actually Medusa when he is turned to stone.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: V-671
Disclose Notes: The second and fourth pages include advertisements for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series), the last page includes an advertisement for the Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series).
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I Am a Martian!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: science fiction
First Line: Look, I wouldn't lie about a thing like this!!
Synopsis: A man can’t get anyone to believe that he is a Martian, but when he is allowed to modify a fire truck ladder he uses it to get home.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: V-672
Disclose Notes: The second and fourth pages include advertisements for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series), the last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko.
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Power Mad!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Conrad Elton
Synopsis: A chemist thinks that he has invented a compound that makes people obey him because he gave some to a dog and the dog obeys him. He goes to a small town and convinces the people to drive out the mayor and install him. He abuses his people by hiking taxes to feather his own nest and the people send him packing. He is surprised that they did not obey him but then he realizes his compound doesn't work and the dog only obeyed him out of love and trust, the same way his influence worked at first until he abused it.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: K-627
Disclose Notes: Wessler script per Nick Caputo from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
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They'll Never Find Me

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Jerry Owens
Synopsis: A convict escapes jail and hides in a satellite that is about to be sent into orbit for fifty years with food and air as an experiment to determine the possibility of space stations. He has to make up his mind whether to leave the craft and return to life in prison or accept exile in space.
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Pages: 3
Job Number: K-534
Disclose Notes: Wessler script per Nick Caputo from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
Continued in "The Man in the Satellite" (K-703) in the next issue.
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Mystery Trip

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Uncle Pete; Tommy
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Pages: 2
Job Number: K-266
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The Whirlpool

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Jeff Dawson
Synopsis: A man is depressed because his girl married another while he was in Korea so he volunteers to be part of an experiment by a professor attempting to learn if it is possible that Polynesians could have made it to the island on small rafts. The man thinks he doesn't care if he dies, but when he is captured by fish people who live under a whirlpool, he realizes he wants to live and escapes. He ends up in Polynesia, but understands that his story is too fantastic to tell the professor.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: K-601
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All Alone

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Gini
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Pages: 4
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The Traveling Companion

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Thomas Drake
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Pages: 4
Job Number: K-68
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She Never Returned!

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Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Josef; Laura
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Pages: 3
Job Number: K-78
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The Uninvited!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Albert Manning
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Pages: 4
Job Number: K-979 ?
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The Green Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Ray; Lou
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Pages: 4
Job Number: K-54
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The Day the Earth Froze

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Dr. Royd; Dr. Winfield
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Pages: 4
Job Number: K-57
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The Terrible Fate of Mr. Wren!

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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Hubert Wren
Synopsis: A scientist puts off marrying until he is wealthy because he wants to avoid the mistake of his parents always arguing since they were poor. He becomes wealthy by inventing a matter duplicator device. When the girl he wishes to marry steps in front of the device, there are now two of them, arguing over which one of them gets to marry him.
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Pages: 3
Job Number: L-797
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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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