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Issue: Five-Score Comic Monthly #18
Publication Date: October 1959
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Issues: #18 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: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 100
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: 24.0 pence GBQ 0-2-0
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Content Items: 14 (13 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 Girl from 50,000 Fathoms!

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Genres: science fiction
First Line: Look! A girl rising up from the depths of the sea -- and our boat's being drawn towards her!
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The Girl from 50,000 Fathoms!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Matt; Bill; Tiara; Garr; Marko
Synopsis: Two fishermen are kidnapped by the dictator of an undersea civilization who plans to conquer the surface world.
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Pages: 7
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The Magician Who Saved the World

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): The Great Mardo; Grax; Kol
Synopsis: The Great Mardo, a washed-up magician, uses sleight-of-hand to convince two alien scouts that Earth will be too difficult to conquer.
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Pages: 6
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Exiled from Earth!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Cleve Carson; Thryl; Val Tor’ Alexander Carson; Barba Ta
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Pages: 10
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The Man Who Turned to Gold

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Character(s): Professor Mark Rollins; Professor Alec Brand; Dr. Bennington
Synopsis: Professors Mark Rollins and Alec Brand make two interesting discoveries in the jungles of the Yucatan: a mirror that will reflect the future and a chemical that can turn base metals into gold.
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I Was a Test Pilot in Outer Space

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Colin; Laird Drews
Synopsis: Colin was Earth's top test pilot, checking out special purpose ships, until the day it appeared that he and his partner had turned in a false report. Unable to find work again on Earth, he ends up testing ships for an alien race.
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The Amazing Cube!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Harvey Hacker
Synopsis: Harvey Hacker meets a fellow gambler who has made his own dice from a meteor and with which he cannot lose. Following him, Hacker is able to snatch one when the other gambler crashes his car outside an atomic station. Planning to analyze the cube later, Hacker finds that it is apparently getting larger and larger through the night, nearly crushing him in his own house. But when scientists arrive from the atomic station, Hacker realizes it is he and his house that have been shrinking due to the combination of the radiation and meteor the cube was made of.
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The Giant with My Face

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Hoyt Wayne
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The Clock Strikes Death!

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Character(s): Mark Allison; Arthur Allison; Ben; Andrew Gregg; Will Farragut; Chief Harris; Tom Farragut
Synopsis: A timepiece releases the spirit of a long-dead killer. The police chief investigates, impersonates the ghost and uncovers a scam.
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The Menacing Pet from Pluto!

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Character(s): Herb; Mortie; Charlie
Synopsis: An expedition finds freezing cold weather in the tropics. The cause appears to be a strange alien creature that seemingly escaped from a crashed ship and left behind the unconscious ship's captain. It's up to the expedition to find a way to stop the creature.
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The Interplanetary Line-Up

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Herb Jennings
Synopsis: A detective searches a science-fiction writers' masquerade ball for an alien. After several mistakes, he finally spots the tell-tale clue giving the alien away.
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I Was a Modern Hercules

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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Perry; Bonnie; Professor Andrews (alias Lastro)
Synopsis: When a man needs a costume for a masquerade party but all the shops are closed, he finds a lion skin in an antique shop to use as a Hercules costume. But what he doesn't know is that the lion skin really did belong to Hercules, and that it grants the demi-god's strength to whoever wears it.
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Sideways in Time!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Jason Manson; Ross Harmon; Professor Senville; Doctor Smithers; President Felton
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Pages: 8
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Earth's Strangest Salesman

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Character(s): Mr. Wilson; Charlie; Harry; The Vaarks
Synopsis: Aliens are using a salesman to plant weapons on Earth, but when a man throws the salesman out, the salesman suddenly recalls the aliens' plans and stops an invasion.
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Pages: 8.67
Disclose Notes: DC logos and “House of Mystery” banner removed from each page of story (none on p. 1). Last page of original story artwork extended and altered to make it into 9.0 pages instead of 8.67. P. 3: words “last Fall” changed to “last year”.

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