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Issue: Strange Tales of the Unusual #1
Publication Date: December 1955
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Issues: #1 of 11 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Atlas [black & white]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Animirth Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Man Lost!/Who Walks in the Dark?/The Experiment That Failed!/A Cry for Help!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Burgos altered the finished art. Info per Michael J. Vassallo's blog:
http://timely-atlas-comics.blogspot.com/2016/04/happy-100th-birthday-to-carl-burgos.html

Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.
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Man Lost!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A scientist who has invented a time machine has an unscrupulous brother who plans to use it for his own profit.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagDead of Night #7 published December 1974
as Man Lost! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: H-137
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The Sorcerer

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Character(s): Tom Morton; Jack Morton; Ellen Morton; Johnny Morton
Synopsis: A man who has travelled the world and seen wonders performed by hermits in India returns home to find that his young nephew creates magic with only belief.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMystery Tales #46 published October 1956
as The Traveler [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "The Traveler"
In Content Item: FlagMystic #61 published August 1957
as Travelling Tom [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "Travelling Tom"
In Content Item: FlagTales of Suspense #2 published March 1959
as The Sorcerer [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #12 published October 1960
as The Sorcerer [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #72 [U.S. Cover Price] published September 1961
as The Sorcerer [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #51 [unnamed variant] published January 1964
as The Sorcerer [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #143 published January 1975
as The Sorcerer [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #227 published January 1988
as The Sorcerer [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: H-203
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Who Walks in the Dark?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: H-113
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The Gift

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: H-63
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Cry for Help!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: H-132
Disclose Notes: Wessler credit per bibliography published in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 24, # 10, October 2013.
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The Experiment That Failed

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: H-167

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