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Issue: Race for the Moon #4
Publication Date: January 1962
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Issues: #4 of 23 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagThorpe & Porter
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Top Sellers Ltd.
On Sale Date: 1962
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: 12.0 pence GBQ 0-1-0
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 17 (16 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Year extrapolated from advert for Race for the Moon comics in Flash (Thorpe & Porter, 1962 series) issues 1 & 2 https://www.comics.org/issue/760804/?issue_detail=2#1628535 and advert in Race for the Moon (Thorpe & Porter) issue 22 https://www.comics.org/issue/515291/?issue_detail=2#2557685 offering a set of compendium LPs with songs issued and current in 1964 - 65.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Colour Cover; Black & White Interior
Dimensions: 9.5" x 7"
Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior
Binding: Perfect Bound
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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Secret of the Skyscraper-Spaceship!

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Genres: science fiction
First Line: It's a spaceship from Earth! We must prevent it from landing on Mars"
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Pages: 1
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I Know the Secret of the Poltergeist!

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Genres: fantasy
First Line: I am an investigator of the supernatural and...
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Pages: 6
Job Number: T-84
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He Stole 50 Years

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Genres: crime, science fiction
Character(s): Vincent Slade; Andrew Slade
First Line: He was the kind of newspaper publisher that would use any means,E
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Pages: 4
Job Number: M-365
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Strange Doings in Cell 4-B!

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Genres: crime, fantasy
Character(s): Porter; Pop (prison inmates)
First Line: Porter dreamed of nothing but escape!
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Pages: 4
Job Number: M-232
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The Uncanny Keys

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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Shelton
First Line: Only once in a million years could a man find a set of keys like the ones Shelton discovered!
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Pages: 4
Job Number: M-293
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The Sinister Supermen

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Captain Yates; Frisco
First Line: Nothing on Earth could stop them!
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Pages: 4
Job Number: M-271
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Vial of Inspiration

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Gus Harris; Mr. Peters; Mrs. Peters
First Line: It happened when Gus Harris was an apple-cheeked youngster with tattered bluejeans.
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Pages: 2
Job Number: J-628
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The Secret of Stephen Durham

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Clark Wendall; Stephen Durham
First Line: They were the closest of friends, as their fathers before them had been!
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Pages: 4
Job Number: K-135
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It Waits under the Sea!

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Felix Bradin; Harry Spahn
First Line: How could Felix Bradin have known after years of careful planning,E
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Pages: 4
Job Number: M-327
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We Found the Ninth Wonder of the World!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Simmons; Briggs; Kane
First Line: We searched for a forgotten man in forgotten waters--
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Pages: 7
Job Number: T-83
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Mystery of the Mountain

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Genres: science fiction
First Line: The professor's theory had to be wrong!
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Pages: 3
Job Number: L-506
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The Heat's On

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Genres: science fiction
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Job Number: H-366
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He Wore a Black Beard

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Wally Rogers; Ralph Blaine
First Line: It didn't matter what the mysterious invention was!
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Pages: 4
Job Number: M-416
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The Eerie Experiment!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Ben Darrow; Peter Ivanov; Phil Walker; Howie Barnes
First Line: Ben Darrow's startlingly sudden ability to know what was going to happen next
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Pages: 4
Job Number: M-288
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I Foiled an Enemy Invasion!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Mark Briton
First Line: It was too incredible to believe!!
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Pages: 5
Job Number: T-82
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I Was the First Man to Set Foot on...the Mystery Planet!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Hank Jordan; Tom Jonson
First Line: My visit to the mystery planet started out as a business adventure!
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Pages: 5
Job Number: T-85
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Time Machine

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: science fiction
First Line: I think the first time I really began to think seriously about the mysteries of Time was when I was about fourteen years old.
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Pages: 2
Job Number: G-85

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