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Issue: Fantastic Tales #2
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Issues: #2 of 21 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagThorpe & Porter
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Indicia Publisher: Top Sellers Ltd.
On Sale Date: (not set)
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Pages: 68
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Price: 12.0 pence GBQ 0-1-0
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Content Items: 22 (13 stories, 1 cover)
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Lifeboat in Space! - 6 pages from Mystery in Space (DC, 1951 series) #40 (October-November 1957)

Interplanetary Speedway! - 6 pages from Mystery in Space (DC, 1951 series) #40 (October-November 1957)

Secret of the Star Warriors - 6 pages from Mystery in Space (DC, 1951 series) #40 (October-November 1957)

"The 200-inch mirror of the new Mt. Palomar telescope..." [Feature: Amazing Ratios] - 1 pages from Mystery in Space (DC, 1951 series) #40 (October-November 1957) reprinted from Strange Adventures (DC, 1950 series) #44 (May 1954)


The Man Who Inherited Mars! - 6 pages (from Strange Adventures (DC, 1950 series) #82 (July 1957)


Secret of the Silent Spaceman! - 6 pages (from Strange Adventures (DC, 1950 series) #82 (July 1957)

Days of Wonder! [Feature: Spotlight on Science] - 2 pages (from Strange Adventures (DC, 1950 series) #82 (July 1957)

How Not to Enjoy a Vacation!- 1 pages from Mystery in Space (DC, 1951 series) #40 (October-November 1957)

Private Eye of Venus - 6 pages (from Strange Adventures (DC, 1950 series) #83 (August 1957)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Colour cover; Black and White interior
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S.
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Binding: Perfect Bound
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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[untitled]

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: science fiction
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Pages: 1
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Top the Charts Every Month with Cannon Records

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Lifeboat in Space!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Captain Daav
First Line: Captain Daav!
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Pages: 6
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Interplanetary Speedway!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Space Cabbie
First Line: I don't like to boast, but when it comes to rating the best drivers in space, I'm top of the list!
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Secret of the Star Warriors!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Andrew Fielding (actor); Zizo (alien)
First Line: On an island universe a million light years from the Earth-stage footlights he knew so well,E
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Riddle of the Runaway Earth!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Joel Cobb (archeologist)
First Line: Has our Earth always been the third planet outward from the sun?
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Genres: non-fiction, science and technology
Feature(s): Mysteries in Space!
First Line: If the Earth and Moon suddenly became completely motionless...
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Disclose Notes: Four illustrations with captions of facts about space and the earth.
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Star-Brightness

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Genres: non-fiction, science and technology
Feature(s): Wonders of Space
First Line: Gazing up at the sky on a very clear night
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Giants of the Cosmic Ray!

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Genres: science fiction
First Line: From a far-off planet comes a solitary alien
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Pages: 6
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The Speed of Light

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Amazing Ratios!

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Genres: non-fiction
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The Man Who Inherited Mars!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Hal Jackson
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Pages: 6
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Amazing Ratios!

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Genres: non-fiction
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Binky Shows "How to Make New Friends!"

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Subject Matter
Genres: opinion, teen
Character(s): Binky; Allergy; Bob; Pete
First Line: Say, Allergy, why don't you ask that youngster, Bob, across the street to go bowling with you?
Synopsis: Binky suggests Allergy make friends with a new kid, Bob, but Pete does instead and then gets Allergy and the rest of the gang interested.
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Secret of the Silent Spaceman!

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Genres: science fiction
First Line: What did the little green men from space want on Earth ?
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
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Days of Wonder!

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset; ?
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Feature(s): Spotlight on Science
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Article about the various time differences on Earth.
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The Day Science Ran Wild!

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Genres: science fiction
First Line: How can invaders from another dimension hope to conquer Earth without firing a shot?
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
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[untitled]

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Genres: non-fiction, science and technology
Feature(s): Solar System Sizes!
First Line: The smallest sunspot visible on the sun...
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How Not to Enjoy a Vacation!

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Subject Matter
Genres: opinion
Character(s): Terry
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Private Eye of Venus!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Mark Gordon
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Pages: 6
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Don't be Half a Man!

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Fear No Man

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Pages: 1

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