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Issue: Creepy Worlds #157
Publication Date: January 1975
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Issues: #157 of 250 Issues (251 Printings)
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagAlan Class
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Alan Class & Co. Ltd
On Sale Date: 1975
Volume:
Pages: 52
ISBN:
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Price: £0.10 GBP
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Alan Class (reprint editor)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: colour cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: 7.25" x 9.25"
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: perfectbound
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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I Am the Gorilla-Man!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Gorilla-Man [Franz Radzik]
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #28 published February 1962
was I Am the Gorilla-Man! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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I Am the... Gorilla-Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Gorilla-Man [Franz Radzik]
First Line: You... come closer...
Synopsis: An inventor transfers his mind into a gorilla to commit crimes, but the gorilla controlling his body turns against him.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: V-488
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I Know the Power of...the Genie!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Penciller(s): Don Heck (signed)
Inker(s): Don Heck (signed)
Letterer(s): Ray Holloway ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Nancy; Tommy
Synopsis: A little girl summons a genie to punish adults after she is spanked. The genie eventually erases all people, but the girl gets lonely and asks him to bring them back, which he does, before leaving forever.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: T-488
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I Was Trapped Inside the Martian Maze

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko [as Ditko] (signed)
Inker(s): Steve Ditko [as Ditko] (signed)
Letterer(s): Ray Holloway ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Willy; Alice; Gen. Rufus G. Harrington; Prof. Arnold Wolsey
First Line: It was in 1975 when we took off from Earth!
Synopsis: The Martians force anyone wanting to trade with them to solve a puzzle. All of the scientists sent there fail, but the ship's steward realizes that the trick is done with a simple treadmill.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: T-489
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I Come from the Shadow World!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee ?
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko [as S. Ditko] (signed)
Inker(s): Steve Ditko [as S. Ditko] (signed)
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Casey
First Line: I had only one mission...
Synopsis: An invader from the shadow world is defeated by a room of lights rigged up by an electrician.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: T-474
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The Man from... Tomorrow!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby [as Kirby] (signed)
Inker(s): Dick Ayers [as Ayers] (signed)
Letterer(s): Ray Holloway ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Walter Phelps; Charlie; Marcus
First Line: Hey, Charlie!
Synopsis: A man invents a time machine to travel back to the Roman Empire of 25 A.D. and set himself up as king, but all the present day devices he has brought back with him to prove his claims do not work without electricity, fuel, and broadcasting stations.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: V-290
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Only One Is Human!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Penciller(s): Don Heck
Inker(s): Don Heck
Letterer(s): Ray Holloway
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Robert Brown; John Baxter; Henry Sloan; Fred Winthrop
First Line: It was the first meeting of Martians and humans, as I led the first human landing on Mars!
Synopsis: A human unit on Mars realises that a disguised Martian is in their midst, they cannot tell the imposter and the real human apart, until a false piece of bad news makes the real human weep, uncovering the Martian.
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Pages: 5
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The Empty Seat

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
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Pages: 2
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The Frightening Fog

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: It is morning!
Synopsis: A mysterious fog envelops the entire world for days, terrifying everyone. It was actually created by benevolent alien peacekeepers to hide Earth from an invasion.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: ?
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Whose Face Is in the Mirror?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee ?
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko [as S. Ditko] (signed)
Inker(s): Steve Ditko [as S. Ditko] (signed)
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Joe Kane
First Line: This particular day started off just like any other for our hero, Joe Kane, office worker...
Synopsis: A man wakes up in the morning and sees a stranger's face in the mirror and then it shatters. He tries looking into another mirror and the same thing happens. He looks into a full length mirror and it happens a third time. He makes his way to work, avoiding mirrors, until he stands before the elevator. When the door opens, the man whose face he has seen is standing inside producing a terror-stricken reaction. Our hero runs away, and the puzzled man leaves the elevator which cable snaps, sending it plunging down the shaft to destruction.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: V-288
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The Haunted Paper!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko [as Ditko] (signed)
Inker(s): Steve Ditko [as Ditko] (signed)
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Nick Rover [Mr. Nicholas]; Olef
First Line: Nick Rover was always just one step ahead of the law!
Synopsis: A criminal skips town and sets up a newspaper as a front. When his typesetter changes the headlines from what they should read into what actually happens in the near future, he realizes he's got a goldmine, but the typesetter refuses to tell him how he can accurately predict the future. The criminal threatens to fire and blacklist the typesetter if he doesn't come clean, and the next headline he sets tells of an accident happening to the newspaper owner. Panicked, he turns himself in to the police so that he will be safe in jail, which is what the typesetter wanted all along.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: V-213

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