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Issue: Strange Tales of the Unusual #5
Publication Date: August 1956
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Issues: #5 of 11 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Atlas [black & white]View Brand Images
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
Format Notes:  
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reprinted 5 times as Content Items in other Issues.
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The Threat!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Moving Stairs!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
First Line: 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
Pages: 4
Job Number: J-636
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The Last Tomorrow

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: 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
Pages: 4
Job Number: J-747
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The Threat!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: 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
Pages: 4
Job Number: J-807
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The Parrot Speaks!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
First Line: Do you have one of these Fry parrots?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: J-748
Disclose Notes: Art credits from www.atlastales.com
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Special Sale

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Character(s): Marvin Kale; Paula Kale
First Line: Normally, Marvin Kale never went shopping for his wife.
Synopsis: When a husband goes shopping he finds a new cleaning fluid that makes anything better than new, even him.
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In Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #59 published July 1957
as Magic Mist Foam [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "Special Sale"
In Content Item: FlagStrange Worlds #3 published April 1959
as Special Sale [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #13 published November 1960
as Special Sale [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #90 [U.S. Cover Price] published November 1961
as Special Sale [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales of Suspense #28 [U.S. Cover Price] published April 1962
as Special Sale [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: J-932
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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Mary's Robot!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: 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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Pages: 3
Job Number: J-642
Disclose Notes: Wessler script from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
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One Mistake!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
First Line: Time was the big thing in Tom Redmond's life!
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Pages: 4
Job Number: J-567

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