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Issue: World of Fantasy #5
Publication Date: January 1957
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Issues: #5 of 19 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Chipiden Publishing Corp.
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)
Editor(s): Stan Lee
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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 2 times as Content Items in other Issues.
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
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Beware... The Eyes of Arch!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Bill Everett (signed)
Inker(s): Bill Everett (signed)
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.
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Fade-Out!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Bob Powell
Inker(s): Bob Powell
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A man desires his cousin's wife-to-be so he uses a time machine to go five years into the future and frame him for a crime he didn't commit by dropping his wife's picture at the scene as incriminating evidence. When he returns to the present day, the woman breaks off the engagement and tells him she loves him.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K-936
Disclose Notes: Wessler script from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
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The Man Who Plunged!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Forte
Inker(s): John Forte
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A man learns that he has to work for what he wishes.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-52
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Death Waits Below!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Tony DiPreta
Inker(s): Tony DiPreta
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: African natives see a white man parachute from a plane and consider him a bird-god. They take him to a cliff and expect him to leap off and fly.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: L-87
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Smaller... Smaller... Smaller!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Vince Colletta
Inker(s): Vince Colletta
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A thief thinks his victim has cursed him to shrink when he tries to hide in a hothouse of plants enlarged by genetic engineering.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #221 published January 1988
as Smaller... Smaller... Smaller! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #29 published ?
as Smaller... Smaller... Smaller! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: L-64
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The Giveaway

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMystic #37 published May 1955
was The Salesman [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]retitled
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: F-827
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Back to the Lost City!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack Oleck
Penciller(s): Dave Berg [as Davy Berg] (signed)
Inker(s): Dave Berg [as Davy Berg] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Two men experience a mirage in the desert and are later found and brought to a hospital to recover. One of the men recovers first and finds a necklace in the table next to the other and figures that the mirage was actually a real city filled with emeralds. He leaves the hospital and the doctor tells the recovering patient that he left a necklace of glass emeralds for his wife in his room.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K-961
Disclose Notes: Oleck script per Martin O'Hearn: http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2019/08/jack-oleck-stories-in-three-atlas-titles.html
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Beware the Eyes of Arch!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bernard Baily
Inker(s): Bernard Baily
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A cleaning lady plays a practical joke on a man who thinks he has discovered the power of Medusa by placing a stone canary in the bird cage. He thinks he has turned the bird into stone by glancing at it, so he attempts to rob the bank and is arrested.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K-919

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