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Issue: Strange Tales of the Unusual #5
Publication Date: August 1956
 
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Indicia Publisher: Warwick Publications 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: 8 (7 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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reprinted 5 times as Content Items in other Issues.
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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The Threat!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
typeset
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
The Moving Stairs!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
fantasy
At exactly 12:06 P.M., March 14, 1962, three customers riding the escalator up from the street level in Morgan's department store suddenly vanished into thin air!
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Miscellaneous
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The Last Tomorrow

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
science fiction
He had to face it! All that he had before him was that last tomorrow that could come any day!
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Miscellaneous
4
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The Threat!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
science fiction
Les Foster, the janitor, didn't want to rent the attic to the strange person who called himself Mr. Yurka!
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Miscellaneous
4
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The Parrot Speaks!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
fantasy
Do you have one of these Fry parrots?
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Miscellaneous
4
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Art credits from www.atlastales.com
Special Sale

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
fantasy, occult
Marvin Kale; Paula Kale
Normally, Marvin Kale never went shopping for his wife.
When a husband goes shopping he finds a new cleaning fluid that makes anything better than new, even him.
Reprinting
FlagStrange Tales #59 published July 1957
as Magic Mist Foam [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "Special Sale"
FlagStrange Worlds #3 published April 1959
as Special Sale [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagTales to Astonish #13 published November 1960
as Special Sale [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagStrange Tales #90 [U.S. Cover Price] published November 1961
as Special Sale [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagTales of Suspense #28 [U.S. Cover Price] published April 1962
as Special Sale [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
2
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Text story with illustration.
Mary's Robot!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
science fiction
When Emil Weston's wife made up her mind that he would be like other men... bold... courageous... she took an unusual way of achieving that end!
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Miscellaneous
3
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Wessler script from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
One Mistake!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
fantasy
Time was the big thing in Tom Redmond's life!
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Miscellaneous
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