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Issue: Sinister Tales #108
Publication Date: January 1971
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Issues: #108 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: 1971
Volume:
Pages: 52
ISBN:
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Price: £0.05 GBP
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Content Items: 12 (10 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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What Is... the Power?

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): X-Men [Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]; Angel [Warren Worthington III]; Iceman [Bobby Drake]; Beast [Henry McCoy]]; The Living Monolith [Ahmet Abdol]
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From Content Item: FlagThe X-Men #56 [U.S. Cover Price] published May 1969
was What Is...the Power? [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Curse of the Seal Men

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (header illustration)
Inker(s): ? (header illustration)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Pierre Manet; Jim Carson
First Line: Slowly, cautiously, the powerful motor launch nosed its way through the scattered ice floes that littered the steel-gray waters of the Arctic borderland.
Synopsis: Two cruel seal hunters kill an eskimo. He curses them with his dying breath - and the hunters turn into seals.
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Pages: 1
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What Is...the Power?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): X-Men [Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]; Angel [Warren Worthington III]; Iceman [Bobby Drake]; Beast [Henry McCoy]]; Alex Summers [Havok] (origin continued); The Living Monolith [Ahmet Abdol] [also as Living Pharaoh] (villain)
First Line: Archaeological diggings below, crew...
Synopsis: In the Egyptian desert, the X-Men battle the Living Pharaoh and his men. The Pharaoh takes off with Alex and siphons off his mutant powers to turn himself into the Living Monolith. As the X-Men battle the Monolith, Alex turns the tables by taking back his power and more, stopping the Monolith and destroying the ancient temple where he has been trapped. Alex warns his friends to stay away as he has no control over the destructive powers coursing through his body.
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Pages: 15
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The Million Dollar Angel

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
First Line: Warren! Come down from there this second!
Synopsis: Warren continuously gets himself into trouble at home so his parents send him to a private school to straighten him out. While at school, Warren surprisingly develops wings. Within days of his wings appearing, a fire breaks out on campus and Warren utilizes his ability to fly to rescue schoolmates stuck in a building that is on fire.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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Where Angels Dare to Tread!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Big Albert; Charlie; Alma (name revealed in next issue)
First Line: There's the kind of scene I was looking for...right below me!
Synopsis: Angel becomes The Avenging Angel, with red-and-black costume.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: The events of the story occur during the winter of 1963.
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The Flying A-Bomb!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Fred; Alma; Tom
First Line: Professor X to Cyclops and Iceman!
Synopsis: Cyclops and Iceman try to convince a reluctant Angel to join the X-Men.
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Pages: 5
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The Treasure of Planetoid 12!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Charlie Nast; Sam
Synopsis: In the year 2100 a criminal hijacks a spaceship to be the first man to claim the treasure of Planetoid 12. When he gets there, he finds nothing but water and mud. He thinks that it might be oil or something valuable, but after he drinks it he knows that it is merely water. The pilot that he forced along at gunpoint thinks he knows where the treasure is, but the criminal refuses to believe there is a treasure on Planetoid 12 at all until he reverts back into an infant. The pilot has realized the treasure is the fountain of youth.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: [X-90 ?]
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The Manikins!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Selwin Simple
First Line: You may wonder what a love story is doing in a fantasy magazine?
Synopsis: An odd man works with the manikins in a department store, but becomes upset when one of the female manikins is to be put in a bridal display. The employee disappears and the groom is replaced with a manikin that looks just like him.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: X-113
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
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The Man Who Hated Monstro!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, nature
Character(s): Karl Krumm; Monstro
First Line: You're huge and powerful, but somehow--someway--I shall destroy you!
Synopsis: A star acrobat is jealous of a popular gorilla at his circus and torments it. Finally, he arranges for the gorilla to break free so that it will be shot, but it has enough strength left to swing out on the trapeze to get revenge.
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Pages: 5
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The Dream Creatures

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: Humans have restful dreams that make them content. Investigating where the dreams came from Mallinger learns from an African shaman that aliens are appearing in people's dreams to help introduce themselves to mankind. However they finally tire of receiving no response and leave Earth's orbit.
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Pages: 3
Job Number: J-100
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Curse of the Seal Men

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
First Line: Slowly, cautiously, the powerful motor launch nosed its way through the scattered ice floes that littered the steel-gray waters of the Arctic borderland.
Synopsis: Two cruel seal hunters kill an eskimo. He curses them with his dying breath - and the hunters turn into seals.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Continued from inside front cover
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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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