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Issue: Strange Tales of the Unusual #8
Publication Date: February 1957
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Issues: #8 of 11 Issues
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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
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Bullet-Proof Man! / The Disappearance! / Who Dwells Below?

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.
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Who Dwells Below?

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Synopsis: Undersea men leave statues floating upon the surface to act as bait to capture surface men.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: K-975
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The Too-Perfect Crime!

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Synopsis: Police arrest a chemist for murdering his partner when they find his body at the bottom of the stairs and he had left a note indicating that they had quarreled. The thing is, he did not kill him. He was busy using his invisibility potion to rob the bank but he is unable to convince the police to believe his alibi since he burned the money and formula when he saw the police approaching.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: L-71
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The Disappearance

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Synopsis: A pilot flies a new plane that is so fast it goes 5000 years into Egypt's past and he marries Pharaoh's daughter. He mysteriously pops back into the present, but the plane stays in the past. The court martial is going to throw the book at him for telling such a preposterous story, but archeologists in Egypt uncover the plane in a burial crypt.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: K-887
Disclose Notes: Wessler script from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
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Nobody Will Ever Know!

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Synopsis: A nobody gets struck by cosmic rays and they give him super powers which he uses to combat various menaces. The powers wear off after a time, but his experience has given him a new positive outlook on life.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: L-4
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Invisible Friend

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From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #35 published April 1955
was My Friend Koogelie [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "Invisible Friend"
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Pages: 2
Job Number: F-796
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You Must Not Pass

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Synopsis: Various motorists pass a detour sign which cause them to rethink the paths which their actions have taken them down.
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Job Number: L-15
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The Bullet-Proof Man

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Synopsis: A convict develops a shield that will protect him from bullets but he finds that he cannot dissolve it.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: K-906

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