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Issue: Five-Score Comic Monthly #8
Publication Date: December 1958
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Issues: #8 of 20 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagK. G. Murray
Brand: Colour Comics Pty Ltd
Indicia Publisher: The K. G. Murray Publishing Company Pty Ltd
On Sale Date: 1958
Volume: none
Pages: 100
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: 24.0 pence GBQ 0-2-0
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Content Items: 16 (15 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Colour cover; Black and White interior
Dimensions: Approx 190mm x 265mm (varies)
Paper Stock: Newsprint
Binding: Squarebound
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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The Sleeping Beauty of Space!

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First Line: Jupiter! An Earth girl cast away in a life capsule!
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The Sleeping Beauty of Space

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Character(s): Karko; Smitty; Momar; Tana Dante; Professor Dante
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The Hole in the Sky

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Character(s): Paul Briggs; Dag; Tra
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The Man Who Aged Backwards!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Daryl Dawson
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The Day the Earth Vanished!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Bobby Fulton; Commander Fulton; The Flann (alien invaders)
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The Man Who Remembered 100,000 Years Ago!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Quentin Ross
Synopsis: racial memory; meteors; cadmium; radiation
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The Riddle of Spaceman X!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): John Jackson
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The Amazing Spectacles of Doctor "X"

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Synopsis: Jimmy accidentally gets hold of spectacles from a scientific villain, and finds out that they can show the future. One of the visions he sees shows his death from drowning. Trying to avoid that fate, on the fateful day he makes sure he is not going to be where the vision shows he will drown; just to have Superman take him there anyway. But then he finds out Superman wants him to be an actor in a "safety first" film about the dangers of drowning.
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Search for a Star!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Jak Bruce
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The Detective with 1,000 Traps!

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Character(s): Detective Mike Farra; Samuel (Sneaky Sam) Briggs; Chief Collins; The Burrows Gang; “Gimmick” Gaxton
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Aquaman Leaves the Sea!

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Character(s): Snead
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The Mystery Witness!

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Genres: mystery
Character(s): Durkin; Pratt; Ann Tyler; Miss Miller
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The 13th Hour

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Character(s): Bill Prentiss; Jane; Sorcerer (unnamed); Kari; Maldro
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I Was Big-Game on Neptune

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Character(s): George Weller
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I Stole Earth's Greatest Secret

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Professor John Farragut; Professor Alan Case; Dr. Martins
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The Prophetic Camera

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Clyde Henshaw
Synopsis: An old man finds an alien camera that takes pictures of future events. A crook steals it and tries to use it for profit, but nothing works out for him.
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