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Issue: Spellbound #31
Publication Date: December 1956
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Issues: #31 of 34 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Atlas [black & white]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Bard Publishing Corp.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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The Perfect Crime

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, science fiction
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In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #217 published January 1987
as The Perfect Crime [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.
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The Betrayer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Philip Clark; Wilson
Synopsis: When Wilson spies a giant rocket craft headed to Earth which will destroy everything when it lands. Clark builds a hideout on the world's most deserted island, Bimur, so he can be sure to survive. However, that's exactly where the ship is going to land.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K-664
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Space Tune

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #222 published January 1985
as Space Tune [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Oh, Perfect Crime!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, science fiction
First Line: Connors had brains, and the Great Gambo had a strange talent!
Synopsis: A sleezy booking agent uses a teleporter to get rich quick.
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In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #217 published January 1987
as Oh, Perfect Crime! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K-498
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He Won't Open the Door

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Preston; Charon
Synopsis: Preston believes money can get him anything. Searching for Incan treasure he tries to force a ferryman to lead him across a river, but the ferryman is Charon and he's at the River Styx.
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In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #136 published January 1973
as He Won't Open the Door [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K-641
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The Man Who Didn't Belong

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Steve Donner; Jim; Rex Donner; Evelyn; Denise Wallace
Synopsis: Steve rescues Rex from inside the cyclotron but he has no memory of where he came from. Steve starts to resent how perfect Rex seems and how everyone likes him. Eventually Rex steps back into the cyclotron and vanishes. Steve tells his story to Denise then recognizes her as Rex's mother! He realizes Rex was his son from the future and that he can be proud of Rex's achievements.
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In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #217 published January 1987
as The Man Who Didn't Belong! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K-514
Disclose Notes: Wessler script from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
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They Dare Not Come

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: The workers in a weather station on Mars become antsy about supplies arriving but the commander maintains control. All of them are human-like robots who need the fuel to keep running.
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In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #136 published January 1973
as They Dare Not Come [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 3
Job Number: K-529
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Man in a Trance

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, science fiction
Character(s): Ronnie Flynn; Ken Flynn; Dick Flynn; Oliver Flynn; Nancy Drake; Lord Hubert
Synopsis: Ronnie believes the past still exists and invents a formula to enter the 'existing' past so he can find out what became of the Drake Diamond. It works, but he falls in love with Nancy and fears if he takes the diamond in the present she'll be arrested for the theft in the past so he leaves it alone.
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In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #217 published January 1987
as Man in a Trance [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K611
Disclose Notes: Wessler script per biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol 28, No 5, May 2017.

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