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Issue: World of Fantasy #12
Publication Date: June 1958
 
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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
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in Februay 1958. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Several stories in this issue bear the logo reading "A Tale to Marvel At!" used by the cancelled Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) perhaps indicating that this was built on an unpublished pre-implosion issue.

Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
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Disclose Format
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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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
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Hiding Place

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Bill Everett
Bill Everett
Stan Goldberg
typeset
Reprinting
 
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1
The Face In The Glass!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
John Forte
John Forte
?
?
Subject Matter
A thief named Boris Hann runs through the streets of a small European village after a robbery. Seeking to evade the police, he takes shelter inside of Johan the Mirror Maker's shop. The police knock on Johan's door, but the craftsman doesn't realize that Boris has snuck into his house. After the police leave, Boris confronts the old man. Johan shows him a magic mirror that can instantly alter his appearance. He gives it to him in exchange for leaving him alone. Boris takes the mirror and decides to use it as a means for committing more crimes. He has the mirror transform his image into that of a younger man, then breaks into the Furtwanger mansion. The police see Boris as he tries to escape and gives chase. Rushing back to his room, he collides with an elderly man and induces a heart attack. He gets back to his room and uses the mirror to change his image to that of the old man. As the old man has since died however, the mirror works its magic only too well, as Boris takes on the form of the old man and falls to the floor in a death-like state.
Reprinting
FlagFrankenstein #10 published May 1974
as The Face in the Glass! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagSecrets of the Unknown #101 published ?
as The Face in the Glass! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
4
M-257
The Next World

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jack Oleck
John Forte (signed)
John Forte (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
This story postulates that suicides are punished with madness.
Reprinting
FlagGiant-Size Chillers #2 published May 1975
as The Next World! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagSecrets of the Unknown #101 published ?
as The Next World [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
4
M-267
Oleck script per Martin O'Hearn: http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2019/08/jack-oleck-stories-in-three-atlas-titles.html

Previous indexer incorrectly credited art to Richard Doxsee. Story is signed and clearly the work of John Forte.
Bedlam In Barnesville

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Carl Wessler
Jim Mooney
Jim Mooney
?
?
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
4
M-450
Hallucination

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Alfonso Greene
Alfonso Greene
?
?
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
4
M-237
The Enemy!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Manny Stallman
Manny Stallman
?
?
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
3
M-251
Lucilles's Robot [sic]

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
?
typeset
Subject Matter
science fiction
Lucille Swart; Arnold Swart; Rogo the Robot; Frank Swart; Jimmy Swart; Officer Murphy; John Winters
An engineer presents his wife with a robot to do her housework. He believes he is playing a prank, but the robot is real.
Reprinting
FlagAdventures into Weird Worlds #19 published June 1953
was Lucilles's Robot [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
2
C-473
Hiding Place!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Carl Wessler
Al Eadeh
Al Eadeh
?
?
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
4
M-240

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