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Issue: Five-Score Comic Monthly #20
Publication Date: December 1959
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Issues: #20 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, 2 covers)
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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 Runaway Bronc from Venus!

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First Line: Unless I figure out how to control this strange creature, he'll tear the town apart!
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The Runaway Bronc from Venus!

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Penciller(s): Bob Brown
Inker(s): Bob Brown
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Letterer(s): Ira Schnapp
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Genres: science fiction
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The Runaway Bronc from Venus!

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Character(s): Ben Martin; José; Frank; alien
Synopsis: In a South American town, photographer Ben Martin discovers an alien "bronc," a flying four-legged creature. Ben also finds a crashed spaceship with an injured pilot, who lets him know that Ben needs to ride the "bronc" back to the old corral, i.e., spaceship.
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The Supernatural City

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Character(s): Lucy Wayne; Gregory Martel
Synopsis: At the 1000-year anniversary of the founding of a European city, events documented in the town's history, The Crimson Folio, begin happening again, and the city realizes that the book is actually a book of prophecies. This is bad news for the descendent of the person who dies on the last page of the book.
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Space-Scoop-- 2159 A.D.!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Jim Barnes; Chuck Adams; Alvin Harrison; Doctor Franz Bergstrom
First Line: This is one story you won't scoop me on, Adams!
Synopsis: Two interplanetary news reporters keep coming up with new scientific ways of beating each other to print.
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The Case of the Stolen Earth-Faces!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Elsa Norman; Jim Norman; Betty Allen
First Line: Every man in town has turned into an alien being!
Synopsis: An alien transforms all the men in a town into duplicates of himself so that no one can spot him among the others while he searches for an element that his invading army needs.
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The Battle of the Colossal Creatures

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Dave Appleton
Synopsis: Two aliens conduct a scavenger hunt.
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The Strange Case of the Earth-Spy!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Lar Martin; Jon Everett; Alis Marsh; Jay Fredericks; Moors
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The Martian Who Ran for Mayor

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): John Trenton; Yoy; Mr. Ripple; Zannu
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The Curse of the Prophetic Pencil

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Dwight Henslow; Dorothy Fay; Sam Collins; Arthur Fothergill; Koj
Synopsis: A pencil inexplicably writes messages to a group of scientists, warning them that their experiments in teleportation will draw an other-dimensional creature to Earth.
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The Gorilla Genius

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Character(s): Travers; Professor Minor; Mr. G/G-400 (Gorilla); Doctor Lang
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The Invasion of the Energy Creatures!

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Character(s): Lee; Josh; Captain Wok
Synopsis: Engineers hired to help a developing country's mining industry find an army of subterranean creatures wreaking havoc on the countryside.
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The Experimental Man

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Character(s): Thor Larkin; Luga; Rab; Doctor Kura; Professor Sog; Professor Bok; Gur
Synopsis: Thor Larkin has to eject from his ship when trouble arises. He makes a water landing and is captured by fishermen who believe him to be some ancient ancestor of their own people. Taken to scientists, he is used as a test animal for a matter transporter beam.
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I Was a Wizard of the Past

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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Roy Stevens; Mrs. Stevens; Herr Hermann; Prince Arnold; Duke Leopald
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Genres: humorous
First Line: I'm contacting the satellite sent up by the army!
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