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Issue: Sinister Tales #87
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Issues: #87 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: 18 (16 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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Man from the Ages; Never Again; The Edge of Fear

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Genres: fantasy
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Pages: 1
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How Criminals Are Trapped

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): Crime Tracks
Synopsis: Tire tracks from cars.
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Pages: 1
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Never Again

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: science fiction
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Pages: 5
Job Number: S2691
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Man from the Ages

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Mack; Dave; Major Simmons; Dave; Monks; Dr. Berna; Dr. Cone
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Pages: 5
Job Number: S-2576
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The Edge of Fear

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Dr. Amos Carter; Dr. Steven Carter
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Pages: 5
Job Number: S-2577
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Deadlock!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Fred Palmer; Hubert Winslow; Joyce Winslow
Synopsis: A man invents a machine that can influence people's will and sells it to a businessman who uses it to gain an unfair business advantage. The businessman's daughter stops him and he regrets his actions.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: M-247
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I, the Gargoyle!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Alan Swan
First Line: To some, he was the ugliest man alive!
Synopsis: A kind but ugly, and hence lonely, man pilots a digging machine on a one-way journey to the Earth's core where he discovers a civilization who "see with their hearts" and not their eyes in the dim light. They offer him acceptance and love.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: V-632
Disclose Notes: Retold in Silver Surfer (Marvel, 1968 series) #7 (August 1969) as a Tales of the Watcher story by Stan Lee and Howard Purcell.
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The Mole Mystery!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Cook; Moore
Synopsis: Two men discover a city beneath the Earth made of gold and resolve to load as much of it into their digging vehicle as they can, but later they realize that the city wasn't made of gold but transmuted into gold by some force because their digging vehicle is now solid gold and they are stranded below ground.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: M-434
Disclose Notes: Oleck script per Martin O'Hearn: http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2019/08/jack-oleck-stories-in-three-atlas-titles.html
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The Search for Shanng!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Shanng
Synopsis: An alien crash lands on Earth, and offers knowledge to in exchange for help. Greedy humans cannot find his ship, since he sensed their selfish thoughts and hid himself until humanity is ready.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: X-399
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Who Am I?

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Walter Burke
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The Secret of Sagattus!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Quoquo; John
First Line: Everyone knew there was a bond between the king and the hunchback...
Synopsis: A wise king listens only to the advice of a hunchback, causing the jealous nobles to murder the hunchback. They discover that the hunchback was the real ruler, and the king is only a manniquin.
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Job Number: X-481
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The Man from Tomorrow!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Humphrey Pym
Synopsis: Humphrey poses as a time traveller supposedly newly-arrived in New York but is apprehended by real time travellers who are annoyed he didn't keep a low profile and send him "back" to the future.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: T-182
Disclose Notes: Penciler credit and job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassello via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
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Melvin and the Martian!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Melvin Burns
First Line: Not many men bump into stray Martians accidentally but our friend Melvin did…to his everlasting regret!
Synopsis: A gambling cheat encounters a Martian who offers to give him the secret of never losing if he helps the Martian locate a treasure. The crook accepts, and true to his word, the Martian puts the man under a machine that gives him the ability to know which horse will win the race and how the dice will roll. When he asks the Martian what treasure he is looking for, the Martian mocks him "Haven't you realized yet, brainless earthling? The treasure is you!" and deposits him into a Martian zoo exhibit.
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Disclose Notes: Retold by Stan Lee, illustrated by Tom Palmer, as a Tales of the Watcher story in Marvel Super-Heroes (1967) issue #23.
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The Yogi's Secret!

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Yama Nuri; Clyde Lipton; Nikolai
Synopsis: A Yogi uses projected images to save his wealthy benefactor from communist agents.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: M-249
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The Devil Fish

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Bill Sorley
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Pages: 2
Job Number: A-571
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I Come From Far Centaurus!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Victor Farrington
First Line: My home is on far Centaurus...
Synopsis: A greedy man is delighted when an alien shows that he will be rich, but he is sentenced to exile for fraud, and imprisoned on an asteroid where his money is useless.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: X-366
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The Shoemaker's Strange Assistants!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: horror
Character(s): Uncle Hugo; Harry Hook
Synopsis: A shoemaker who enjoys telling the neighborhood children stories of the little people who come out at night to help him make shoes becomes ill and goes to a loan shark to acquire money for medical treatment. The loan shark harasses him constantly to make interest payments on his loan so he must work night and day. The last time the greedy money lender visits the shoemaker he gets the shock of his life as it turns out the little people are real. They shrink the man and put him to work building shoes for the shoemaker.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: X-400
Disclose Notes: Uncredited Roussos Inks per Bob Bailey, 2005-03-19. (Per Sandell ed.). Previous indexer credited Steve Ditko. Ditko plot credit removed due to lack of attribution. (13/07/2010)

Job number confirmed on original art: https://www.nostalgicinvestments.com/by-artist/2375/steve-ditko/strange-tales-113-p1-splash-large-art
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Companion Comics in this Series

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