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Issue: Five-Score Comic Monthly #45
Publication Date: January 1962
 
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Publisher: FlagK. G. Murray
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Pages: 100
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Price: 24.0 pence GBQ 0-2-0
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Content Items: 17 (16 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Colour cover; Black and White interior
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Paper Stock: Newsprint
Binding: Squarebound
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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Prisoner of the Golden Mask!

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"Jane, you promised never to remove those bandages! Now you'll doom us all!"
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Prisoner of the Golden Mask

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science fiction
Bill Garret; Jane Rainey; Dr. Whales; Professor Gomez; King Zotl; Teplon
Beneath the gleaming, metallic cloth that enveloped her body was a power that could destroy all around her!
Explorer Jane Rainey is exposed to a mysterious energy force in an ancient Mexican tomb that gives her uncontrollable destructive power.
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Nine Lives Equal Death!

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horror
George Crowley; Elaine; Forest Lee; Mrs. Lee
All men are born to die but once...
George Crowley is granted the nine lives of a tiger he spares while on safari. He uses them up in criminal activities.
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The Reluctant Sorcerer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
fantasy
Tommy Morgan; Mr. Wilson; Mr. Drenn
From the mysterious old lady in the woods, the boy received a fantastic gift!
When Tommy helps a woman in trouble, she gives him magic powers but what he really wants is for his missing parents to come home.
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[untitled]

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humorous
I'm having a big barbeque dinner tomorrow.
Ollie buys all sorts of equipment for a barbecue, but forgets the food.
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The Secret of Sound Stage Seven!

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mystery
Mr. District Attorney; Len Harrington; Austin Chapman; Joe Blucher; Nora Westlake; John Pennock; Count Grasso; Clyde Jenkins
Don’t worry, folks -- no harm will come to you!
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The Forbidden Stones of Zhatec

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Abner Lake; Juan Cortez; Terqua; Azzuma
A heap of crumbling ruins from a far off steaming jungle, where they'd lain for centuries... what possible threat could they contain?
When an ancient temple is moved and rebuilt at a city museum, two giant phantom warriors emerge and battle each other, looking for a lost treasure.
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The Case of the Superstitious Reporter!

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crime
Big Town
Steve Wilson; Dixon Williams; Lorelei Kilbourne; Mrs. Norris; Inspector Callahan
Nothing can happen to me on this assignment, Steve!
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The Secret of the Life-Ray!

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Norman Harris; alien (unnamed)
Fantastic! That lion was a marble statue -- the next moment it turned into a living, snarling beast!
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The Human Vultures!

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mystery
Mr. District Attorney; Len Harrington; Harold Denning; Baker; Ernest Blackwell
Stop! Don’t remove the splinter from that man’s finger until we’ve photographed it!
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[untitled]

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humorous
This is for me!
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Toyride to the Stars!

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Leo Brown; Valkor Samar
To young Leo Brown it appeared to be only a toy spaceship he found in a cave near his home!
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The Headline Hunter

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crime
Big Town
Steve Wilson; Lorelei Kilbourne; "Big Mike" Andrews; Nifty Brogan; Inspector Callahan; Dusty; Ace Clark
A breezy press agent was determined to get his clients free publicity in the Illustrated Press --
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The Marauding Magicians

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Subject Matter
crime, fantasy
Detective Roger Steele; sorcerer (unnamed)
They came barreling into the city -- modern bandits using ancient sorcery -- to commit their crimes!
An ancient sorcerer is revived from suspended animation by a gang of crooks who force him to use his magic to help them commit crimes.
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Fate Holds Four Aces!

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Jane Howard; Joe Kerr; Jim Murphy; Hank Minor; Dick Barry; Edna Meadows; Philip Strome
I was amused, at first, by gambler Joe Kerr’s obsession with his playing cards --until I discovered the gruesome and terrifying secret that drove him on and on to complete his strange, solitary game of death!
Jane Howard, newspaperwoman, remembers her encounter with Joe Kerr, the gambler who was searching frantically for a special “joker” card. Kerr was killed in the process, a victim of his own greed.
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The Invention That Went Berserk

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adventure
Professor Widdicomb; Pete Mason; Archer
It was modern magic, created in a laboratory, but it led to the land of ancient magic -- the jungle -- where it caused fantastic events to occur!
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[untitled]

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humorous
Hmm - I could use a helper on this painting job!
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