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Issue: Sinister Tales #100
Publication Date: January 1971
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Issues: #100 of 229 Issues (231 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagAlan Class
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Alan Class & Co. Ltd
On Sale Date: 1971
Volume:
Pages: 52
ISBN:
UPC/EAN:
Price: £0.05 GBP
12.0 pence GBQ 0-1-0
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Issue is undated. Estimated date based on presence of two prices (pre and post decimal currency). Switchover happened in 1971.
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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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Fly-Man
Character(s): Fly-Man; Shield; The Destructor
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagFly Man #33 published September 1965
was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Fly-Man's Treacherous Team-Mates

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Mighty Crusaders [Fly-Man [Thomas Troy]; Shield [Bill Higgins]; Black Hood [Matthew Burland]; Comet [John Dickering]; Fly Girl [Kim Brand]]; Nightmare (Black Hood's robotic horse); the Destructor; the Hangman; the Wizard
Synopsis: The new heroes save the Mighty Crusaders from The Destructor. The Mighty Crusaders invite them to join their team, but the Handman and the Wizard eventually show that they are really villains in disguise.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 25
Disclose Notes: 3 part story.
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What Lurks Within?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Dr. Anthony Droom [later retroactively renamed Doctor Druid]
Synopsis: Doctor Droom frightens off alien invaders by convincing them that a construction site’s wrecking ball is a life-form.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-266
Disclose Notes: Also carries the blurb: "Starring: Doctor Droom!" The Doctor Droom feature skips the next issue.

Possible Lee plot/Lieber script per Nick Caputo. George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index credits Stan Lee as sole writer.
Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
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Trouble Bubble

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Jonathan Jr.; Nora; Jonathan Sr.; Mr. Bigger
First Line: If there was some way to keep Jonathan, Jr. busy on a rainy day, his mother fervently...
Synopsis: A boy discovers a formula to blow unbreakable bubbles and accidentally entraps his father's boss.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-160
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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Mr. Miggs from Mercury!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Miss Meteorite; Queen Skiddlebup; Mr. Miggs; Ozzie Barbuti; Half-Nelson McGurk; Betty Barton
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
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A Fortune in Beans!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Mr. Bixby
Synopsis: A bean seller is chagrined to find that he has competition from the Giant, of Jack and Beanstalk fame, who has decided to go into business selling his giant beans.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-730
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Companion Comics in this Series

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

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