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Issue: Fantastic Tales #8
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Issues: #8 of 21 Issues
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Publisher: FlagThorpe & Porter
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Indicia Publisher: Top Sellers Ltd.
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Pages: 68
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Price: 12.0 pence GBQ 0-1-0
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Content Items: 17 (12 stories, 1 cover)
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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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Genres: science fiction
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Classics Illustrated

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Da Vinci's Wig!

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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Joe Mineo; Teresa Mineo; Leonardo Da Vinci
Synopsis: An engineer who feels inadequate dons a wig that was purportedly worn by Leonardo Da Vinci. Suddenly he becomes an incredible inventor believing he's possessed by Da Vinci. It turns out he is the reincarnation of Leonardo Da Vinci himself and was just hampered throughout his life by lack of confidence.
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Explanation, Please!

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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Kee-Waydin (Indian Chief); Running Elk; Yellow Knife; Pop Frazer
Synopsis: The ghost of a kindly Indian chief saves three white ranchers from drowning.
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Cave Drawing

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Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: Explorers stumble into an ancient cavern and discover a cave drawing of a futuristic city.
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Luck of the Zanubis!

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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Dave Warren; Uncle Ben; Hildy; Sparks
First Line: It was a shield -- a strange golden shield that had been handed down through the centuries of dark African superstition!
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Annals of the Occult!

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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Frederick Forbes; Eddie Forbes
First Line: Ladies and gentlemen, as editor of this magazine,E
Synopsis: Banker Frederick Forbes vanished in 1867 with a great amount of the townspeoples' money. Nearly a hundred years later, his great-grandson agrees to undergo hypnosis to solve the mystery, and learns that it was accidental death, not villainy, that caused Forbes to disappear, and the money is finally recovered.
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Mirror of Magic

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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Edward Robbins; Viola Harris
Synopsis: A sickly couple enter a magic mirror into a world of paradise.
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Drobny's Domain!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Anton Drobny
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Pie In the Sky!

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Character(s): Cliff Walters
Synopsis: A private investigator discovers aliens who take jaded and disenfranchised people to a world where all their dreams come true. The planet is shaped like a giant pie in the sky.
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Mr. Matthews' Mermaid

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Character(s): Mr. Matthews; Annabel; Joe
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The Road Back!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Thad Skolpar; Joyce
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The Vortex

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Carl Winters; Zorna
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Disclose Notes: Original indexer only listed this being signed by Al Williamson, but Roy Krenkel's initials "RGK" are right above Williamson signature. Most likely both artists penciled AND inked this story.
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From Many Lands...

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Genres: non-fiction, opinion
First Line: From the dawn of history, people have traded with each...
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The Anti-Gravity Menace

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Seth Parker; Fred Lane (Scientist)
Synopsis: A strange spacecraft flying through Earth's atmosphere emits anti-gravity rays that cause anything they touch to float away.
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Don't be Half a Man!

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For the Best in Western Reading

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