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Issue: Sinister Tales #163
Publication Date: January 1978
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Issues: #163 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: 1978
Volume:
Pages: 52
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Price: £0.15 GBP
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Content Items: 13 (9 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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Gorgilla Strikes Again!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Gorgilla
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #18 [unnamed variant] published April 1961
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Gorgilla Strikes Again!

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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Gorgilla
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Pages: 13
Job Number: V-122
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Prison Without Bars

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Genres: crime
Character(s): Harvey Cowan
Synopsis: A criminal is set free from jail if he agrees to a form of behavioral control by hypnotism ala "A Clockwork Orange".
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Pages: 4
Job Number: K-475
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The Question That Can't Be Answered!

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Ned Parker
Synopsis: A reporter thinks reincarnation a scam and so he plans to expose a hypnotist who has prepared a hoax with his wife to channel a spirit through time.
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Job Number: K-420
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The Swirling Mist!

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Genres: horror, mystery
Character(s): Jeff Coates
First Line: Jeff Coates found the greatest story of his career when he boarded the ancient boat docked in the cold, bleak grayness of the dawn!
Synopsis: A man finds himself on a steamboat that transports him through time.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: K-575
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Beware!!! Of the Little Toy Men!!

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Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A man says that he is an alien distributing toy men in order to attack Earth, but only one reporter believes him. He convinces others when he explains that he saw a wind-up key in the man's back.
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Job Number: T-677
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Humans...Keep Out!

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Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: Scientists are driven off the moon by lifeforms that they themselves engineered to live without oxygen so as to colonize the moon.
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Job Number: K-737
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The Disappearing Man

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Fritz Luders; Edda Hugel
First Line: Fight manager Fritz Luder's new heavyweight was a walking gold mine!
Synopsis: A fight manager has his wife stolen from him when he signs up a Venusian who can disappear in the ring at will.
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Job Number: K-815
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I Was Trapped in Horror House!

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Joe Kane; Charlie Jordon
Synopsis: A convict escapes from death row and hides in a haunted house in an amusement park. A mysterious figure leads him into hotter and hotter tunnels and he never emerges from the house.
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Job Number: T-725
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The Savages

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Genres: fantasy, science fiction
First Line: Man has traced his beginnings from the tales told in the rocks and marshes!
Synopsis: This story postulates that the first humans were actually Martians whose spaceship developed engine trouble.
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Job Number: K-825
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Companion Comics in this Series

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