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Issue: Mystery in Space #5
Publication Date: December 1951
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Issues: #5 of 117 Issues (130 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: Superman DC National ComicsView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: National Comics Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/22/1951
Volume: none
Pages: 44
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 24 (6 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US; then standard Silver Age US; then standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy covers; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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The Outcast of Lost World!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Commando Lyle
First Line: I was condemned to the weirdest fate of all time when I became--
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Feature(s): House of Mystery
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Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Ad for House of Mystery #1 with cover repro.
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[untitled]

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Outcast of Lost World!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Commando Lyle; Ora; Rax; Commander Artho
First Line: Lyle!--I can't let you go like this!
Synopsis: Lyle has been irradiated with Radium, and, for the safety of others, is forced into space.
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Out of this World by Necco

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First Line: It's always daytime on one side of the planet Mercury and hot enough to melt lead!
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First Line: Boys! Girls! Free! At no extra cost! Plastic rocket rings
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First Line: Kids! Be first in your gang to collect our new series!
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Kidnaped [sic] in Space!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Dave Hollis
First Line: Give us the latest developments on the plutonium bomb, Dave Hollis--or we'll throw you out into space--to die!
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Pages: 3.67
Disclose Notes: Inks originally attributed to John Giunta, but confirmed as Bernard Sachs, along with writing and pencilling credits, from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
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First Line: Super! New cream hair tonic is not greasy or sticky...yet grooms hair perfectly all day!
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Character(s): Straight Arrow
First Line: Get this new complete Indian crafts book
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The Pool of Time!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Professor Fosdick; Rawlins; Roger Bacon
First Line: What would you do... if you had a key to the past, and could summon up any creature or person from the shadowy corridors of vanished time?
Synopsis: Professor Fosdick discovers a way to bring living beings - both human and animal - from the deep past into the present time. His notes are stolen by his assistant Rawlins, and three years later dinosaurs, Neanderthal men and Medieval soldiers run rampant through the streets.
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Getting an Erector Is Like Having Your Own Toy Factory

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First Line: Boy, with this "How to Make 'em Book" it's easy to build all kinds of models with one erector set!
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Disclose Notes: On the page between page 5 and page 6 of the previous story sequence. 2/3 of the ad is in sequential art form.
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Genres: mystery
Character(s): Charlie Wild
First Line: Even when I nail a killer my hair looks good because I use Wildroot Cream-Oil!
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Captain Tootsie Bags a Mountain Lion

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Genres: informational, superhero
Character(s): Farmer Jones
First Line: This is a fine- looking ranch!
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Genres: informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): Stars and Their Legends
First Line: Andromeda was the daughter of King Cepheus...
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In Content Item: FlagJustice League of America #75 published November 1969
as Andromeda [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Disclose Notes: Writer and art credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
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How to Locate Andromeda in the Sky

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Genres: childrens, teen
First Line: I-it's spooky in this old haunted house!
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: comic style ad for Double Bubble Gum
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Editorial Advisory Board

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Disclose Notes: Includes a plug for A Date with Judy on ABC.
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Saturn?

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Feature(s): What Do You Know About
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Disclose Notes: Two pages of trivia quiz questions about Saturn.
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The Secret Story of Ray-Gun 64!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Mark Saunders; Helen
First Line: Strap on your S-64's, men! No telling what we'll run into on this uncharted world!
Synopsis: The S-64 disintegrator gun allows Earth troops to colonize and contain other worlds with ease. But the name of the inventor has been completely forgotten. In 2219 Mark Saunders left Earth for Venus, and the next five years were spent developing his disintegrator ray. After scores of failures the gun is finally a success. Returning to Earth he attempts to interest manufacturers in its mass production, but they are offered similar inventions every week and none of them have ever worked.
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In Content Item: FlagDC Super Stars #9 published November 1976
as The Secret Story of Ray-Gun 64! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Inks originally attributed to Frank Giacoia, but confirmed as Joe Giella, along with writing and pencilling credits, from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
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First Line: Here it is fellas! Send for it now! The greatest railroad show on Earth!
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Biography of the Earth

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Genres: informational, non-fiction, science and technology
First Line: Geological surveys have set the age of the Earth at more than two billion years.
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Genres: western
First Line: Speakin' of Christmas, pardner, I'd sure send for Daisy's air rifleman book!
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What Sparks a Champion Sparks You

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Genres: sports
Character(s): Otto Graham
First Line: Otto Graham star quarterback
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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