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Issue: Five-Score Plus Comic Monthly #26
Publication Date: June 1960
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Issues: #26 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: 116
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: 24.0 pence GBQ 0-2-0
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Content Items: 17 (14 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 Creature in Echo Lake!

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Genres: science fiction
First Line: "The Creature in Echo Lake!" "Give me a hand, Hank! I--I can't reel it in myself! I must have hooked a real big fish!"
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The Creature in Echo Lake

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Hank; Jay
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Pages: 9
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The Case of the Martian Witness!

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Genres: mystery, science fiction
Character(s): Star Hawkins (introduction); Ilda (introduction); Qar-Miq; Charl Scott
Synopsis: Star's luck is holding steady. He hasn't had a case in a week and he's had to pawn Ilda, his robot secretary. Luckily, Star is hired to locate a fugitive who's thought to be hiding on Vesta, an asteroid mining settlement, in the Red Jungle. But with a little tracking skill and the help of the creepy vegetation of the Red Jungle, he nabs the fugitive, gets his prisoner, and gets Ilda back from the pawn shop, promising never to pawn her again.
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The Tin Hero of Big Town!

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Genres: crime
Feature(s): Big Town
Character(s): Steve Wilson; Lorelei Kilbourne; Danny; Big Jim Flowers
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Operation Space-Saver

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Harvey Keans
Synopsis: Harvey Keans is assigned the task of preventing a war between Jupiter and Saturn.
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Stamps on Approval

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Feature(s): Seven Seas Stamps
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The Man Who Created Himself!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Frank Barrows; Dr. Newton Morse
First Line: Doctor, at the very moment I'm lying here in your office -- I'm standing three thousand years in the future.
Synopsis: Frank Barrows wakes to a voice telling him that the future depends on him. Frank builds an android duplicate of himself which is sent to the future, but Frank and the android can communicate with each other across time. In the future, light-beings from Aldebaran are "inhaling" argon and "exhaling" monargon, a poisonous waste. Future historical records show that Barrows had developed a technology that could help, but the android duplicates a Frank before he had started that research. Frank is able to knock an electron off an argon atom and get poisonous chlorine and chase away the light-beings.
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The Case of the Genuine Counterfeits

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Genres: crime
Character(s): Thomas J. Conn; “The Big Man”; Agent Mazzi; Agent Troy; Chief Treasury Agent Troy
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The Duplicate Doom!

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Character(s): Josh Cullins
Synopsis: Mysterious phenomenon appear on both sides of a county line, and on both sides a mysterious man asks the townspeople how they would get rid of it. Then the solution magically appears to varying degrees of success. As it turns out, it's all part of an alien betting game.
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The Creature City

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Genres: fantasy, science fiction
Character(s): Mark Merlin; Elsa; Jim; Willy; Jim's father (friend of Mark Merlin); W'Dor (other dimensional criminal)
Synopsis: Mark and Elsa are contacted about strange creatures attacking a nearby town. They walk into town and find no one but giant shadows who fire a shell at them. They're transformed into shadows and transported to another dimension, where they find the missing townspeople. But Mark starts arming himself with weapons. He and Elsa return to Earth, where he uses an alteration lens to return to his actual form of W'Dor, a criminal from the other dimension who switched during the shelling. His people show up to capture him, but an elephant (Mark having also used the alteration lens) immobilizes him.
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The Boy Who Saved the Earth!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Jimmy Bates; Dan-We; Crow-Tee
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Circus Beat

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Character(s): Patrolman Walter Parker; Detective-Captain John Mills; Mr. Barton
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The Man Who Hated Science!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Professor Mason Halloway; Maxwell Haskins; Mrs. Halloway
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Mystery Mansion!

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Genres: crime
Feature(s): Big Town
Character(s): Steve Wilson; Lorelei Kilbourne; Inspector Callahan; Attorney Andrew Easter; Ed Keaton; Williams; Tom Bridges; Harry; Mr. McGrath
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When You Buy Comics know the score!

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Disclose Notes: Advertisement fo 116 page comics: All Favourites, Century, Mighty, Five-Score, and Hundred.
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Secret of the Strange Satellite!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Warren Keith; Grollo; Bryllo
Synopsis: Warren Keith runs a tourist attraction full of outer space phenomena on the moon of Io. Mercurian visitors develop a plan to conquer the universe using one of the exhibits.
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The Spirits in the Smoke

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Martin Hawks (student of Indian life); Joe Red Feather (guide); Medicine Man Minoni; Chief Tihuaki; the chief's son; the Eagle Spirit; the Fire Spirit
Synopsis: Martin Hawks searches for and finds a ancient Indian pipe told of in legend. The legend claims Minoni, the medicine man, controlled the pipe and could call different spirits from it. After Minoni called the Eagle Spirit to kill Chief Tihuaki, the chief's son avenged his father by using a silver arrow. Minoni took the pipe and buried it so that his descendants could use it again someday. The pipe is put on display but is stolen, and the Spirits begin to appear again. Hawks pilots a plane named the Silver Arrow and defeats the Spirits as the last descendant of Tihuaki.
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