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Issue: Five-Score Plus Comic Monthly #40
Publication Date: August 1961
 
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Publisher: FlagK. G. Murray
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Volume: none
Pages: 116
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UPC/EAN: none
Price: 24.0 pence GBQ 0-2-0
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Content Items: 19 (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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Secret of the Hybrid Creatures!

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Subject Matter
science fiction
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The Secret of the Hybrid Creatures

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Edward Zack; Count Druga; boy King (unnamed)
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Steve Wilson's Last Deadline!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
crime
Big Town
Steve Wilson; Harding Ames; Mary; Lt. Greggory
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Partner in Disasters

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
science fiction
Ken; Pete Roberts
Two business partners get trapped in a battle between criminals from Pluto and the scientist sent to recapture them.
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Doom Town!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
western
Jim Sawyer; “Draw” Slagle; Sheriff Mack; Tommy; Captain Amos Jensen
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Adventurers Club

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
The Great New Book Club For Travel And Adventure
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The address used in this advertisement is the address for KG Murray from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. (Source: AusReprints)
The Secret of the Sinister Structures

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
science fiction
Dr. Humes; Mr. Driscoll; Sterling; Burke; Louie Marlin
A scientist mysteriously builds strange structures including a giant automatic pistol and a bow and arrow but won't tell anybody the reason. (They're for two giants who want to fight each other)
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The Case of the Wanted Criminals!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
mystery
Mr. District Attorney; Len Harrington; Detective Carl Nelson; Willie “The Kid” Kearns; Elliot; Condon; Winkie; Big Mike
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The Dooms from Kyro's Cave

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science fiction
Ted; Sam; Kyro the Alchemist
Two geologists stumble upon the ancient lab of an alchemist and accidentally release his curse.
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The Invisible Map!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
western
Jim Sawyer; Roaring Rip Gregory; Bill Underhill; Glory Underhill
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Partners in Fear!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
drama
Guy Dubois; Andre Renard
Ha ha ha ha ha ha... you are a coward Dubois...
Two friends try to outrival each other. One has high anxiety, the other goes mad with fear of falling.
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The Mystery Book Guild

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The address used in this advertisement is the address for KG Murray from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. (Source: AusReprints)
The Prisoner in Cell 13

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mystery
Mr. District Attorney; Len Harrington; Frank Denny; Miss Miller
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The Living Jewel!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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science fiction
Alban Jarvis; Jewel Men of Llarmis
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The Brush That Could Haunt Men's Souls

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fantasy
Princess Elena; Sorcerer; Ralph Cotton; Lief Brogin; Joe Meany; George Rogers
A magic painter's brush travels from hand to hand, exposing bad people and helping the good ones.
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DC logos and “House of Mystery” banner removed from every page of story. p. 1: words “Fifty cents!” changed to “five shillings!”; “One hundred dollars” changed to “Fifty pounds!” and “$100” changed to £50”. p. 5: words “Of all the blasted luck” changed to “Of all the crazy luck”.
Convict at Large!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
crime
Big Town
Steve Wilson; Ted Tolan; Log Jenkins
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Mars -- on Channel 8!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
science fiction
Bob Tarrant; Eric Mills
He had the only television set on Earth that could tune in on other worlds in space millions of miles away!
Bob Tarrant experiments with his television set until he can receive transmissions from Mars. When washed-up movie director Eric Mills learns about this he kills Tarrant so that he can use the Martian transmissions as the basis for a new movie. However, he finds out that the Martians were using Tarrant, and now him, to help them invade Earth.
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I Fell in Love with a Witch!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
horror
Jean Brewster; Carter Blake; Boris Wilder
Private investigator Carter Blake falls head over heels in love with Jean Brewster. Without knowing anything about her, he's willing to marry her. Checking old newspaper clippings, Blake finds out that his fiancé seems to possess witch-like powers. Three of her former husbands died after her "kiss of death."
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DC logos and “House of Mystery” banner removed from every page of story. Last page of original story artwork extended and altered to make it into 8.0 pages instead of 7.67. p. 2: words "carrying us toward New York” changed to “carrying us south”. p. 2: words “that night in upper Manhattan” changed to “that night much later”. p. 3: words “doing some checking in Philadelphia” changed to “doing some checking in the north”; “$5,000” changed to “£2,000”; “Five thousand!” changed to “Two thousand!” and “after they’ve gotten it” changed to “after they’ve obtained it”. p. 4: words “the trip back to New York” changed to “the trip back to the city”. p. 8: words “Cape Cod” changed to “the beach”.
Hints on Tennis

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
Subject Matter
Wrigley's Arrowmint Chewing Gum
Frank Sedgman (photograph)
Tips on improving your tennis skills.
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Back cover. Art and text. Advertisement for Wrigley's Arrowmint Chewing Gum.

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