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Genres: science fiction

First Line: ...Hello Earth, I've found it, but something funny's going on...

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Advertisement on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Feature(s): Cannon Records

First Line: You can top the charts every month and be the life of any party when you collect

Synopsis: Advert for Cannon Records. Offering "6 Top Pops all on one disc" "Every month for only 5/11" [0-5-11 GBP] "New titles every month" "Up to 14 minutes playing time" "Stars of 'Easy Beat' and 'Saturday Club'" "Superb quality - Fantastic Value" "Available at all good newsagents and record shops" "Available at all good newsagents or in case of difficulty write to:- Thorpe & Porter Ltd 39 Upper Brook St. London W1"

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Notes: On inside front cover.

Amazing Space-Flight of North America!

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Writer(s): Otto Binder

Penciller(s): Sid Greene

Inker(s): Joe Giella

Letterer(s): ?

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Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Rax-Jun; Professor Lloyd Ashton

First Line: How big do you imagine space ships of the future will be...

Synopsis: Three billion years ago Rax-Jun carries the only sample of Zynex which will stop the destruction of the Universe in the far future. Suddenly his spaceship starts crumbling. He buries the Zynex on a nearby planet and cuts a sign on to it. Present day aliens visit Earth and tell the United Nations that the continent of North America is the sign as the destruction of the Universe is starting in the North America Nebula. The continent is lifted off Earth and taken to the nebula. Lloyd Ashton determines that the Zynex is buried in a position that precisely matches the unstable star in the nebula.

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Pages: 8

The Dragon of Times Square

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Bob Brown

Inker(s): Bob Brown

Letterer(s): ?

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Genres: fantasy, science fiction

Character(s): Sir Gawain; Miss Brown (showgirl); Monaghan (beat patrolman); Frank (patrolman); Jim (patrolman); Pete (patrolman); Professor Caxton (astronomer, mentioned in TV report)

First Line: New York City is full of wonders...

Synopsis: Sir Gawain is fighting a dragon in King Arthur's time when he and the dragon are transported to modern-day New York City by a bolt of lightning.

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Pages: 6

Riddle of the Glowing Space-Cabby!

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Writer(s): Otto Binder

Penciller(s): Bernard Sachs

Inker(s): Bernard Sachs

Letterer(s): ?

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Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): Space Cabby

Character(s): Space Cabby

First Line: As a space-cabby I often work long hours... and like it!

Synopsis: Space cabby is suffering from toothache again after having a filling that morning. He steps outside his cab and starts glowing and feeling dizzy, this disappears when gets back in. He has to take passengers, drink, eat and sleep in his cab. Because he can't go to the bank his money bag fills up and a thief notices it. The thief forces cabby to an asteroid and then makes his escape taunting cabby that he can't chase him. Suddenly cabby catches the thief and captures him. He has worked out that the mercury in his tooth filling was being affected by a faulty mercury vapour door lamp.

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Pages: 6

Notes: All spellings of space-cabby in this story are hyphenated.

In the third panel on page 5 Bernard Sachs has forgotten to draw the head covering on the thief.

Wonders of Space

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Writer(s): Julius Schwartz

Penciller(s): Raymond Perry (header illustration)

Inker(s): Raymond Perry (header illustration)

Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: non-fiction, science and technology

First Line: With the exception of Mercury, Venus, and possibly Pluto, all the planets of our solar system have moons - or satellites - revolving around them.

Synopsis: Text article giving a round-up and history of the then known moons in the solar system.

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Notes: The original page used to make the plate for printing this page is poor with black marks and a very visible cut line along bottom.

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Cartoon on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): Julius Schwartz

Penciller(s): Morris Waldinger

Inker(s): Tommy Nicolosi

Letterer(s): Milt Snapinn

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Genres: non-fiction, science and technology

Feature(s): Mysteries in Space!

First Line: Just as the Earth makes a complete revolution around the sun...

Synopsis: Four panels offering information on how many times the solar system has revolved around the Milky Way galaxy, how many novae are seen each year, how many galaxies the 200-inch Mt. Palomar telescope can see and what the combined diameter of Mars's two moons Phobos and Deimos is.

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Pages: 1

Job Number: 532

Invaders of the Dark

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Lou Cameron

Inker(s): Lou Cameron

Letterer(s): Pat Gordon

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Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Jerry Boyle; Mr. Stokes (diner proprietor); Ma Kinder (rented room provider - mentioned)

First Line: It was unbelievable-- like something out of a ghastly fairy tale!

Synopsis: Jerry Boyle sits next to a strange man on the train. At Freeburgh he has a meal and as he leaves Stokes sees him glowing. Stokes takes the sheriff to show him the glowing man. As Boyle switches the light off he does indeed glow. The townspeople blame Boyle for the glowing which has spread but then the stranger appears and says it's his fault. They chase the stranger but lose him in a bright carnival. Boyle then finds the stranger by himself. The stranger reveals that the glowing will soon disappear. He is searching for another world for his people and that he now must try another world.

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Pages: 6

Menace of the Falling Moon!

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Writer(s): Otto Binder

Penciller(s): John Giunta

Inker(s): John Giunta

Letterer(s): ?

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Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Burt Barton (rare book detective); Hiram Oakley (wealthy book collector); Otis Todd (book shop owner); Miss J. James (chief librarian); Henry Logan (book reviewer); Art Forrest (science fiction collector); Jed Jackson

First Line: Burt Barton, tracer of lost books, was given the assignment of tracking down the rarest book on Earth...

Synopsis: Oakley wants a science fiction book called "Menace of the Falling Moon". Barton tries various sources without success. Art Forest tells him that the story concerns moon people landing in a town called Tanville. The moon needs stabilizing and they have to set up a repeller machine there. Jed Jackson is difficult to persuade but eventually believes them. The machine is put in place. Barton realizes that everyone he has spoken to comes from Brownville. He goes there and finds the story is true. The job is nearly finished. Barton's memory is changed to believe that he has read the story as well.

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Pages: 6

Prisoners of the Tiny Universe

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Nick Cardy

Inker(s): Nick Cardy

Letterer(s): Pat Gordon

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Genres: science fiction

First Line: Deep into the limitless void hurtled the two men...

Synopsis: Scientists have created a tiny duplicate of the solar system and are showing it to a newspaper reporter. The duplicate is behaving independently when suddenly the miniature sun starts flaring. It will soon explode. Not far away a policeman chases a thief who has stolen valuable medical Radium into the laboratory. Both plunge into the experiment and shrink at the same time. The thief still tries to escape the policeman but eventually is overpowered. Now the problem is that the unstable sun is filling the experiment with smoke. The policeman puts some Radium out so they can be seen and rescued.

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Pages: 8

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Writer(s): Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Penciller(s): Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Inker(s): Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Letterer(s): Henry Boltinoff (signed)

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Moolah the Mystic

Character(s): Moolah

First Line: Are you ready for the seance, gentlemen?

Synopsis: Moolah demonstrates his powers at a seance by levitating a table. He tells two onlookers that he cannot reveal the secret of levitation. He offers to drop the onlookers off somewhere and then they decide to eat. A policeman tells Moolah he can't park next to fire hydrant, he has to be fifteen feet away. Moolah levitates the vehicle fifteen feet into the air!

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Notes: There is a #11 under Boltinoff's signature. Unsure if this is the number of the Moolah feature (likely) or a job number. Most Boltinoff job numbers were four digits.

Earthman, Go Home!

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Writer(s): Otto Binder

Penciller(s): Carmine Infantino

Inker(s): Bernard Sachs

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Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Bruce Barton; Ozz Koom; Zol Koom (ancestor of Ozz Koom)

First Line: From the moment the Earthman set foot on the frosty world, his life was in constant danger!

Synopsis: Space salesman Bruce Barton has landed on a new planet hoping to trade but the first native he sees runs away. He follows but is attacked by ice spears, a quicksand trap and exploding fruit. Leaving the planet he talks with Martian salesman Ozz Koom and tells him to avoid the planet. Ozz Koom tells him the story of his ancestor who visited Earth in 1900 and mistook many signs as hostile and it wasn't until an Earthman reached Mars in 1966 that this was realised. Thinking about his experience Barton realises he could have been mistaken as well. Ozz Koom lands and tries, this time with success.

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Pages: 6

The Mirage Beneath the Sea

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Penciller(s): Bill Ely

Inker(s): Bill Ely

Letterer(s): Pat Gordon

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Genres: fantasy

Character(s): Frank Barston; King Neptune

First Line: From the murky floor of the ocean they came, to punish Frank Barston for his infamous crime!

Synopsis: Frank Barston thinks he sees King Neptune when he is diving to illegally recover some salvage. His evil partner Dick knows it is rapture from the depths (nitrogen narcosis) but doesn't tell him directly and plots to scare him out of the treasure. However Barston overhears this. Later, when King Neptune arrives Barton gives him the treasure and then attempts to shoot Dick who he thinks is dressed as Neptune. But it is not Dick, who has been arrested earlier. So it must have been the real Neptune. The next morning the newspaper reports that the salvage has been left with the rightful owner.

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Who Is This Stranger?

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Genres: science fiction

First Line: I stared blankly at the hotel register.

Synopsis: A man can't remember who he is. All he can remember is a terrific explosion and then wandering around town hoping someone would know him. There is a photograph of him in a newspaper and a report of him walking through a brick wall. So, he must be an alien. The man goes walking at night in Hersey Meadows which are somehow familiar. Then he sees a spaceship and standing in front is his twin! Using telepathy the twin apologises. He is from Mars and his ship had crashed knocking the man out. While it was being repaired he borrowed the man's identity. So, the man belongs to planet Earth.

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The Phony Space Ships

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Genres: non-fiction, science and technology

Synopsis: One page article explaining how photographs can be faked to produce images purporting to be alien spacecraft.

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The Artificial Twin!

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Writer(s): Jack Kirby ?

Penciller(s): Jack Kirby

Inker(s): Jack Kirby

Letterer(s): Pat Gordon ?

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Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Peggy Peters; John Peters (Peggy's father - deceased); Dirk; Horton Mayo; Jenkins (butler)

First Line: The most incredible feat in world history had been performed--the duplication of a human being!

Synopsis: Peggy Masters' father's last wish was that scientist Horton Mayo be removed from his property. But Mayo has invented a duplicating ray and makes a copy of Peggy so he can stay and also be the beneficiary of the money. Dirk is engaged to Peggy and is puzzled when she changes her mind about marriage and the money and investigates. The real Peggy escapes and explains all to Dirk. There is a fight and the duplicator is destroyed. Mayo is stopped just in time from withdrawing all the money.

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Which has the ATLAS BUILT BODY?

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Feature(s): Charles Atlas

Character(s): Charles Atlas

Synopsis: Body-building ad.

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Fear No Man

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First Line: Learn "Ketsugo" complete Self-Defense

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Notes: On outside back cover.

Advert promoting Ketsugo which combines the unbeatable fighting arts of Aikido, Yawara, Ate-Waza, Karate, Savate and Judo.

Advert tailored for UK readers. Price 4/6 [0-4-6 GBP], includes 1/- [0-1-0 GBP] postage and packing. London address.