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Issue: Amazing Stories of Suspense #178
Publication Date: January 1979
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Issues: #178 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: 1979
Volume:
Pages: 52
ISBN:
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Price: £0.20 GBP
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Content Items: 14 (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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
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From Content Item: FlagMysteries of Unexplored Worlds #3 published April 1957
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Interplanetary Love

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Johnny Smith
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: S-1473
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A Forgotten World

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Sam Cullen
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Pages: 6
Job Number: S1553
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The Strange Guests of Tsarus

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Duran; Kyle; Latimer
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Pages: 6
Job Number: S1509
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The Mirage

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: drama
Synopsis: A man breaks out of jail on the edge of a desert and vows to cross it. Unfortunately, while a guard fired at him, he must have hit the canteen he prepared as it is now empty. As he pushes himself to crest a dune, he spies an oasis with beautiful women. He rationalizes that it must be a mirage and pushes himself to continue following the compass he has crafted deeper into the desert. After he is gone, the beautiful women wonder why the stranger turned away.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: S1681
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Stranger in the House

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: A family is shocked by the sudden appearance of a soldier in the home, instituting new discipline, but it is really just the goings-on in a dollhouse.
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Pages: 3
Job Number: S-1942
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Father, Help Me!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: An old man is tired of his son stealing so he destroys him. Turns out the son was a robot that he built.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: S-2105
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Destination Venus

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: science fiction
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A Dreamer's World

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Captain Gibbons
Synopsis: A test pilot sees a viking sailor and a young woman standing outside his cockpit. He exits his plane to speak with them. The viking tells him that he has entered a "dreamer's world," where people like him end up when they die. The woman protests that she's not dead, and the pilot realizes that she must be in trouble in the real world. The pilot grabs her by the hand and the two of them make a break for the jet cockpit. Once he lands, she is nowhere in sight, but he finds her passed out in a room of dangerous smoldering chemicals. She revives and recognizes him as the man from her vision.
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Job Number: S1573
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Follow the Leader

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Paul Lindsey
Synopsis: Space explorers are attacked by alien animals, and only make the situation worse by killing the largest beast, which was actually a robot holding the animals in check. They narrowly escape.
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Pages: 7
Job Number: V-458
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A World Where I Was King

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Bill Jones
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Pages: 5
Job Number: S1510
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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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