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Issue: Amazing Stories of Suspense #156
Publication Date: January 1976
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Issues: #156 of 245 Issues (246 Printings)
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagAlan Class
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Indicia Publisher: Alan Class & Co. Ltd
On Sale Date: 1976
Volume:
Pages: 52
ISBN:
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Price: £0.15 GBP
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 13 (12 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Issue is undated. Estimated date based on analysis of brands and cover prices in the series. This is a shortened version of Amazing Stories of Suspense #20. Indexed from GCD Error Report 12341 by Ger Apeldoorn.
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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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The Door That Wouldn't Open!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #57 published April 1957
was The Door That Wouldn't Open! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover credits obtained from an article in From The Tomb #10 (June, 2003).
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The Door That Wouldn't Open!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
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Pages: 4
Job Number: L-647
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It Walks in the Night!

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Pages: 4
Job Number: L-639
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No Place on Earth!

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Letterer(s): ?
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Pages: 4
Job Number: L-749
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The Puppet Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Mathews
Synopsis: An amnesiac confesses to a murder he doesn't remember, but applause reminds him that he is only an actor lost in his role.
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Pages: 3
Job Number: M-170
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Child's Play!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Rod Manning; Dr. Lang; Charlie Manning; Alice Manning
Synopsis: A rich man gets forces a scientist to give him a robot as a toy for his son despite his warnings. It tries to burn the house down, and the man apologizes to the scientist for not listening.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: M-171
Disclose Notes: Inks and some or all pencils attributed to Christopher Rule identified by Dr. Michael Vassallo. According to From the Tomb Magazine #10, Ed Winiarski may have contributed pencils.
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The Final Shot!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: crime
Character(s): Mike Dillon; Frank Rochelle; Dan Gavin; Eric Dixon; Louis Ruppert; Grogan
Synopsis: A convict released from prison attempts to get revenge on those responsible for placing him there. He shoots them with a chemical compound that makes them susceptible to suggestion in order to force them to commit crimes. His plan fails when he misses the detective who arrested him and the man just plays along to find out what his scheme is.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: M-151
Disclose Notes: Wessler credit per biblio info published in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 26, No. 4, April 2015.
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Rude Awakening!

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Parks; Davis; Mason
Synopsis: An embezzler dreams he will be caught, and kills the man he dreams responsible. The murder is another dream, as he is jailed pending sentence for embezzlement. He wakes to find himself being sentenced for murder, instead of embezzlement.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: M-182
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The Missing Squadrons

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
Job Number: H-639
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Man Lost

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Synopsis: A man attempts to use his brother's time machine for personal gain but becomes lost in time.
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Pages: 3
Job Number: L-788
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With Just One Stroke

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Genres: horror
Character(s): John Durston
Synopsis: A criminal discovers a magic pen, which makes anything that he writes come true. It runs dry when he is trying to steal jewels, leaving him trapped in a vault to die.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: M-220
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I Seek the Sea Serpent

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Prof. Efrem Marsh
Synopsis: A scientist tracks down a sea serpent, but the crew of his ship panics and kills it. When they try to recover the creature's body they discover that it was an alien trying to communicate with humans after crash landing on Earth centuries ago.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: T-116
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person.
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I Was the Invisible Man!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Adam Clayton
Synopsis: A scientist uses a device that makes the particles of a living body move at the speed of light, rendering him invisible to the eye. He conducts a series of stunts in order to build up a name for himself so he can them go public and cash in. After forty days he glances into the mirror and realizes that he has aged forty years during that time due to a side effect. He realizes with the little time left to him that he can no longer use his knowledge for selfish gain.
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Pages: 7
Job Number: T-97
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. Adam Clayton was mentioned in Marvel Universe (1998 series) which places this story in Marvel continuity.

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