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Issue: Amazing Stories of Suspense #180
Publication Date: January 1979
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Issues: #180 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: 1979
Volume:
Pages: 52
ISBN:
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Price: £0.20 GBP
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Content Items: 10 (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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The Thing From the Hidden Swamp!/Return of the Gorilla-Man!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): "Thing from the Hidden Swamp" (only referred to as such in title); Mary Brown; Gorilla-Man [Franz Radzic]
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #30 [U.S. Cover Price] published April 1962
was The Thing from the Hidden Swamp!; Return of the Gorilla-Man! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1
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The Thing from the Hidden Swamp

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Mary Brown; "The Thing from the Hidden Swamp" (only referred to as such in title)
First Line: There's no place quite as eerie as a dark, secluded swamp...
Synopsis: A plain girl helps a stranded alien, and is made beautiful as a reward.
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Pages: 6
Job Number: V-587
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The Return of the Gorilla-Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Gorilla-Man [Franz Radzik]; Professor Stuyvesant
First Line: He's back!!
Synopsis: The Gorilla-Man escapes and tries to get himself transformed back into a human, but instead he is blasted into space in an experimental space capsule.
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Pages: 7
Job Number: [V-586] ?
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The Day Before Doomsday!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): John Peterson; Premier Zorkon
Synopsis: A US scientist defects to the USSR and builds a large dome to protect their leaders from retaliation, allowing a massive strike on the US. The dome is really a pod to launch them into space.
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Pages: 6
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A Switch in Time!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Karl Kargon
Synopsis: In the year 2050 a prisoner reads about the invention of a time machine and so breaks jail to return to the past to rub out the one witness to his crime. However, as he attempts to assault the man, he realizes that he has been rendered intangible like a ghost so as to be unable to effect any change in the course of events.
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Pages: 5
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Not All Gold Glitters

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
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Pages: 4
Job Number: S664
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The Mark of the Toad

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): King John; Prince Charles
Synopsis: An evil uncle tries to kill a boy king, but his magic backfires and turns him into a toad.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: V-537
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The Eyes of the Mummy!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Harry Sloan; Mrs. Sloan; Sadie
First Line: Want a real fantastic tale?
Synopsis: A crook steals a jewel from an ancient mummy, but the dead pharaoh's hypnotic powers make him see only death until he returns it.
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Pages: 5
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Man on a Tightrope

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Flippo Jones; Mr. Barning; Patty Barning
Synopsis: A young girl is friends with a tightrope walker past his prime. The man is killed in his last act, but his ghost returns to make his friend well again.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: V-538
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I Speak of the Haunted House!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Rodney; Smith
First Line: Like haunted house stories??
Synopsis: Two friends make a bet about the existence of ghosts in a haunted house. The doubting friend thinks he saw no ghosts, but the house itself is a ghost.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: X-181

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