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Issue: Amazing Stories of Suspense #137
Publication Date: January 1974
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Issues: #137 of 245 Issues (246 Printings)
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Publisher: FlagAlan Class
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Indicia Publisher: Alan Class & Co. Ltd
On Sale Date: 1974
Volume:
Pages: 52
ISBN:
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Price: £0.10 GBP
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Content Items: 17 (13 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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Those Who Vanish!

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From Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #38 published September 1956
was Those Who Vanish! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Those Who Vanish!

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Character(s): Pete Arlen
First Line: I'm finally free after twenty-seven years in prison!
Synopsis: A magic pool of water causes those who enter it to vanish back to what they were doing 20 years before.
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Job Number: J-918
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The Box That Wouldn't Open!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Dr. Neil Farr; Detective Sgt. Dan Boyd; Detective Doyle; Whitey (villain); Floyd (villain); Monk (villain)
First Line: Take another look at that news clippin', Floyd!
Synopsis: Some thieves mistake a scientist's latest invention to be a box that won't open when it turns out his latest invention is a telepathy pill that allows him to cue the police in on his kidnapping by the thieves.
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Life Sentence!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Sampson; Murdoch
First Line: They said you want to see me!
Synopsis: A man gives a prisoner time-traveling pills in exchange for the knowledge of where the bank roll is hidden because he knows the past can't be changed. The prisoner thinks he will be able to go back in time and behave differently, so he agrees to the deal, but finds that he does the exact same things and will have to serve his sentence all over again.
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The Island of No Return!

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Bruce Marner
First Line: But I tell you I can't give you a job, mister!
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The Lair of the Thunder Lizard!

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Edouard Duval; Jacques Rambeau; Armand; Paul
First Line: There I was in the cave I call the Tomb of Giants!
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Try-Out

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Stanton; Lund
First Line: I'm pretty busy, Lund!
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The Fake

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Jim Carter
First Line: You must believe me!
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It's Waiting For Me

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Jim; Banty (a dog); dream monster(villain)
First Line: It was a strange, unearthly world, and always he walked the same path... each night coming closer to the bend ahead!
Synopsis: A man and his dog have a recurring nightmare in which some hostile presence is waiting for him just around a bend in the road. His wife dislikes the dog as its cries during the dreams disrupt her sleeping. She gives the dog away, and when the man finally encounters the hostile presence in the dreams, it has been attacked and killed. His dog, beaten and scratched, claws at his door. He realizes that the dog fought the creature and he puts his foot down with his wife that, after he gets the animal some vet care he stays, and she agrees.
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The Servants

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Mrs Bartholomew
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The Sleeping Man

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Karl Rieger
First Line: It's been a long sleep!
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Where There's Smoke...

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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Emil Kojer
First Line: That was the queerest dream.
Synopsis: A smoker finds a blend of tobacco that makes his dreams come true, but his wife sells some to a customer who has a nightmare about the tobacco seller being lost in the darkest depths of Africa.
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The Panhandler

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Doug Cotter
Synopsis: A panhandler robs time-travelers from 1991 and is arrested for passing counterfeit bills.
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The Secret of the Strange Stone

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Henry; Martha
First Line: What is it, Henry? What does it mean?
Synopsis: A man finds a meteorite that gives off rays that make things disappear. After having a dream where he is tempted by power, he uses a mirror to reflect the stone's rays upon itself so it vanishes.
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Companion Comics in This Series

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Disclose Notes: House ad for the Alan Class range of comics. Back cover.

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