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Issue: Five-Score Comic Monthly #19
Publication Date: November 1959
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Issues: #19 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: 15 (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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Fishermen from the Sea!

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Genres: science fiction
First Line: Featuring "Fishermen from the Sea!"
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Fishermen from the Sea!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Helen Palmer; David Palmer; Sharl San; Drin Dorl
First Line: Concentrate, Helen! Only by our thoughts can we make the fish-like aliens realize we are an intelligent form of life!
Synopsis: David and Helen Palmer are captured by water-breathing aliens who intend to flood the whole world but they are scared off by an atomic bomb test.
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I Fought for Two Planets

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Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: The Sarge is with a unit attached to a group of government scientists working in the Antarctic, with the task of mapping out crevasses so the scientists can explore freely. Having driven his tractor into a crevasse, Sarge is about to give up hope when he's rescued by little green men from Pluto. Having landed on Earth for repairs, all they need is some uranium so they can head home. After they part ways, Sarge's unit is sent out to "seek and destroy" aliens in the Antarctic raiding uranium storage areas.
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The Enchanted Violin

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Paul Drake
Synopsis: Paul Drake wants to be respected as a concert violinist, but due to his average performance skills only gets offers to be a musical clown. When he hears the legend of the violin of Lajos, he decides that it will change his destiny. Little does he know how right he is.
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They Called Me a Martian!

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Jay Drews; Sally
Synopsis: Jay Drews, billed as the Man of 1000 Faces, does a quick-change act. After a performance, he's approached by a stranger selling him a realistic Martian costume, claiming he found it in a chest that fell out of the sky. Jay purchases the costume, tries it on, and then finds he can't take it off. The costume seems to have other plans for Jay...
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The Cosmic Plant!

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Dr. Lerman
Synopsis: A mysterious plant grows up, right through a city street, on a quest to absorb every bit of water it can find. The authorities determine that they can kill the plant if they poison its supply of water. But more plants appear and the plant develops the ability to separate the poison out of the water.
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Mystery of the Runaway Spaceships!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Colonel Mason
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The Man Who Changed History!

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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): General Mark Matthews; Lawrence Decoven [Baron De Koven]
Synopsis: A boastful general believes that he knows how he could have changed the course of history's greatest battles, and a magician gives him the opportunity to prove it by sending him into the past.
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Artist of Other Worlds!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): John Rowe [Jhal Khar]; Arlene Merton; Merril; Doctor Martin Rains; George Grey (FBI agent)
First Line: The world acclaimed young John Rowe as a brilliant artist because of his imaginative paint-ings of beasts of other planets.
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The Secret of the Bronze Man

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Mr. Evans; Vorgas; Doctor WInters
Synopsis: A jungle explorer finds a spring whose water temporarily changes his skin into bronze metal. Returning home, he decides to use this ability to fight crime, but robbers try to steal the secret of his transformation and his doctor warns him that his skin could remain metallic forever.
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The Space Musketeers

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Lark; Odar; Gel; James Blane; Professor Lugo Berks; Webbas
Synopsis: Lark, Odar, and Gel are the three Space Musketeers, hired to track down a scientist who crashed on an alien planet with his latest invention. Gel's people can fly and ride wind currents; Odar's people can generate heat and melt their way through mountains; and Lark's people have super-strength. Using these abilities, the three manage to recover the scientist, his weapon, and capture the criminals trying to get to the weapon first.
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I Scout Earth's Strangest Secrets!

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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Mark Merlin (introduction); Elsa (introduction); Mrs. Phipps; Mr. Wakely; Mr. Cole; Joss; Mr. Lemmon
Synopsis: Mark Merlin describes three recent cases that he took on in his job as a supernatural investigator.
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
First Line: We are all ready for our flight to Earth!
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[untitled]

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Genres: non-fiction, science and technology
Feature(s): Planets of Wonder!
First Line: The planet Mercury is so small that it could fit into the Atlantic Ocean without touching any continental land area...
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The Creatures from the Space Globe

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Arnald Arnaldo; Manduu
Synopsis: Arnald Arnaldo finds a replica of a long lost planet in a Venusian curio shop. While studying it back on Earth, two figures come to life and go on a rampage. After they return to the globe, Arnaldo takes the globe to Mercury, thinking Earth's atmosphere has awakened them, but the process repeats itself there with four creatures coming to life. Arnaldo discovers that the globe isn't a model of Krx, but is the planet itself. Scientists had decided to shrink Krx in size to eliminate the problems it created, but it had drifted off in space before the process was complete.
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