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Issue: World of Fantasy #14
Publication Date: October 1958
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Issues: #14 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
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in June 1958. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.

Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. Most of the stories in this issue all bear the logo reading "A Mystery Tale to Hold You Breathless!" used by the cancelled Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) perhaps indicating that this was built on an unpublished pre-implosion issue.
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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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The Yogi's Secret!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Joe Maneely (signed)
Inker(s): Joe Maneely (signed)
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Yama Nuri; Clyde Lipton
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: All information for this issue supplied by the Atlas/Timely list.
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The Three Dead Flies!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jimmy Infantino
Inker(s): Jimmy Infantino
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Chet Harron; John Eager; Ralph Eager
Synopsis: When a ruthless man cheats a scientist out of his business, many years later his son manages to get the company back by posing as his dead father.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-190
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The Strange Escape

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Don Perlin
Inker(s): Don Perlin
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Ivan Krull
Synopsis: A defeated dictator imprisoned in complete isolation escapes only to find the entire population of Earth has relocated to another planet.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: M-235
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Lost In The City That Didn't Exist!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack Oleck
Penciller(s): Howard O'Donnell
Inker(s): Howard O'Donnell
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Carl Mason; Earl Borden; Tarn
Synopsis: Two men discover a city of human mutants with the power to control atoms by their minds hidden in the jungle.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K-110
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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The Mole Mystery!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack Oleck
Penciller(s): Jim Mooney
Inker(s): Jim Mooney
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Cook; Moore
Synopsis: Two men discover a city beneath the Earth made of gold and resolve to load as much of it into their digging vehicle as they can, but later they realize that the city wasn't made of gold but transmuted into gold by some force because their digging vehicle is now solid gold and they are stranded below ground.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #202 published January 1984
as The Mole Mystery! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-434
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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Deadlock!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Joe Orlando
Inker(s): Joe Orlando
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Fred Palmer; Hubert Winslow; Joyce Winslow
Synopsis: A man invents a machine that can influence people's will and sells it to a businessman who uses it to gain an unfair business advantage. The businessman's daughter stops him and he regrets his actions.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #202 published January 1984
as Deadlock! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-247
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Super Salesman

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Tartaglione
Inker(s): John Tartaglione
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Harvey Howell; Sam Peaks; Robert Riser
Synopsis: A hard-working salesman is whisked all over the world by his dreams, until he disappears forever into heaven.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAstonishing #62 published June 1957
was Super Salesman [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-116
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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The Yogi's Secret!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Dick Giordano
Inker(s): Dick Giordano
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Yama Nuri; Clyde Lipton; Nikolai
Synopsis: A Yogi uses projected images to save his wealthy benefactor from communist agents.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #202 published January 1984
as The Yogi's Secret [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-249

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