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Issue: Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #6
Publication Date: January 2013
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Issues: #6 of 6 Issues (12 Printings)
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
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Indicia Publisher: Marvel Worldwide Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/18/2013
Volume: 6
Pages: 252
ISBN: 9780785159292
UPC/EAN: 978078515929257499
Price: $83.99 CAD
$74.99 USD
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Content Items: 78 (63 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Reprints Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #49-57.
This volume is the final Atlas Era release in the series of Marvel Masterworks.
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Publication Type: Hardcover
Color: color
Dimensions: 7.5 in. x 10.25 in.
Paper Stock: glossy
Binding: hardcover with dustjacket
Publishing Format: collected edition
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Marvel Masterworks Presents Atlas Era Strange Tales

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Marvel Masterworks Credits/Contents

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The History of Atlas Horror/Fantasy Post-Code 1956-57

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Inside the Black Bag

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Synopsis: Lost in the jungle, Craig stumbles into a magical city where the leader, Igharo, shows how he can create gems from thin air. Craig takes the gems and leaves the city but the gems become mere stones and he suffers a long recuperation from his time in the jungle.
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The Girl Who Saved the World

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Synopsis: Vickie wishes she could do something heroic for others. When aliens try to impress her with their weapons none of it works because she's blind. Not realizing this, the aliens think humans are fearless and abandon their plans.
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Not Quite Human

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Synopsis: Benton builds a robot but it begins to plot the overthrow of humanity and builds a second model. The robot kills Benton and escapes but it is raining outside and the robot rusts into immobility.
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What Happened to Mr. Smith?

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Synopsis: Smith is a heartless businessman until one day everything with his name on it vanishes, making him a man without an identity. After selflessly giving his last money to a little boy Smith's old life is restored.
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The Weatherman

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Character(s): Willie Wimms; Hugh Wimms
Synopsis: In the future, young boy's afternoon is nearly ruined by a scheduled rainstorm, but when he runs into the rainmaker's magical assistant, he gets a delay.
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The Animal

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Synopsis: While preparing to get rid of Joey's dog, Fred's car is struck by lightning and he finds himself and the dog in an alien environment being studied by two sphere-like aliens. After seeing how compassionate the dog is, the aliens conclude the dog is the higher form of life.
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The Man Who Cried

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Synopsis: A ship's captain loses his steady nerves and realizes it's time for him to retire - he's 16 years old, making him an 'old man' in the service.
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The End of the Line

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The End of the Line

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Synopsis: Peter creates a formula which disintegrates matter. He considers using it but after seeing spectral figures from the future who wish to stop him from unleashing its power he realizes he must hold back his discovery.
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Both of Me!

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Synopsis: Eliot creates a robot double so he has a perfect alibi for crimes but repents the decision and tells the robot to destroy itself. Eliot settles into a law-abiding career but the robot resurfaces, committing crimes. Eliot destroys it and clears his name.
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The Fog That Couldn't Lift!

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Synopsis: Earth surrounds itself with a fog to wards off invaders from Xanu. Karall stops them by opening a portion of the fog, causing them to crash into the North Atlantic Ocean.
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The World Outside!

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Synopsis: A criminal finds himself alone in New York, the city deserted. He goes home to find himself asleep and soon wakes up. He awakens to find himself alone in New York City.
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The Newshound

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Character(s): Snoop Scooper; Marsha Marlow
Synopsis: A reporter with an uncanny nose and a woman with keen hearing and become the blueprints for a new breed of journalists.
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The Needle Swings!

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Synopsis: Muller is captured by the East German police and interrogated, but he passes their lie detector test because the machine had been built in West Germany.
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Sleep, You Fool!

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Synopsis: Annoyed at the attention Bud gets from Joyce, Perry tries to trick Bud into thinking they've both been asleep for 20 years like Rip Van Winkle. However it actually transpires that Perry sleeps for 20 years and awakens to find Bud and Joyce got married.
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The Insects!

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The Insects!

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Synopsis: The Coast Guard finds a freighter full of strange insects. After they destroy the freighter, Rollins admits the insects were robots he built to conquer the world.
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Inside the Black Box

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Synopsis: Don travels through a portal to 1697 where he intends to witness the burial of Captain Kidd's treasure by joining Kidd's crew. Don falls in love with Cora and decides to remain in 1697 with her, but she chooses Kidd. When he returns to the present and digs up the treasure he finds a letter from Cora telling him Kidd would have killed him if she hadn't agreed to be with him.
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No Place on Earth!

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Synopsis: After learning Mercurians settled among the people of Lakeville and gradually assumed human appearance, Dave goes back to 1756 to prevent the Mercurians from colonizing there, thinking his stepbrother Phil is a Mercurian. In the altered timeline, Dave lives on Mercury - because he's one of the green-skinned Mercurians.
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He Stalks by Night!

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Synopsis: A planter in India is nearly convinced of superstitions concerning were-tigers after he slays its mate, but it turns out to be a plot by one of the locals to seize control of the village.
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Over the Moon

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Synopsis: A science fiction movie director gets some help from a real alien and flying saucer, but the film bombs when the footage of the saucer is dismissed as too phony-looking.
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Blackout!

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Synopsis: Al and Jose's careers collapse and both turn to crime. Fleeing from the law they find themselves before a white-haired figure who gives them a glimpse of what their lives would be like if they had remained 'pure'. They briefly get to enjoy their careers again, but then return to the scenes of their arrests by the police.
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The Thing in the Jungle!

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Synopsis: A man arrives at a hidden temple deep in the jungle to find three others ahead of him. The temple informs him that they are really aliens and the temple is a rescue ship that broadcast images of the temple onto movie screens that only they could see which is why they felt compelled to seek out the temple. The man realizes that he is not one of the aliens since he has not been to the movies, but is undecided whether he should reveal himself or go along with the aliens and leave Earth.
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You Can't Find Me!

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Simon's Stooge!

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Synopsis: Simon exploits Lobar's power to read minds. When Lobar breaks up the act, Simon insists on going with Lobar wherever he's headed. Lobar brings Simon back to Pluto with him where Simon's inability to read minds makes him Lobar's comical assistant.
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Who Lurks There?

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Synopsis: Tiny men react to the arrival of normal-sized humans but fail to sabotage their expedition.
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The Empty Chair

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Synopsis: Seth wants his cousin Tommy's inheritance and makes a deal with a time traveler from 1976 to hold the money for him so Tommy won't inherit it, but the time traveler is Tommy's future self.
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The Frightened Man

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Synopsis: Rolf steals government bonds. Hiding from the police, he meets an inventor who shares a potion which will teleport the person who ingests it to any place they desire. After seeing other parts of his nation torn apart by invasion Rolf realizes his country needs the bonds so he willingly returns them.
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The Hidden Mountain

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The Last of Professor Hogarth

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Synopsis: After Hogarth is badly wounded in an earthquake he reveals to Kalmus he can transfer his mind into another body. He enters the body of a dog, but aware Kalmus is power-mad pretends he's now a normal dog.
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You Can't Find Me!

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Synopsis: The crew of Patrol Ship XBY has just docked and is going berserk, smashing everything inside. The guards find a diary on one of crew, which reveals they were brainwashed by an alien ruler, however the diary was false as it was written by an alien who hopes to steal top secret plans and make good his escape. He is revealed and captured by a vigilant guard, who noticed he was immune to female charms (especially after a long tour of space-patrol duty).
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The Gray Thing

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I Died Tomorrow!

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Synopsis: Earl invents a time machine and soon people want him to predict the future. Kay worries he's making the future because he insists time cannot be altered. Earl learns of he and Kay's deaths in a fire in his lab, but they wind up surviving when it happens - the newspapers which report their deaths are in error.
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The Brute!

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Synopsis: The Brute is hired by gangsters to assault their rivals but one day he disappears. Dr. Marcland realizes the Brute was really Brutus and has gone back to his own time to kill Caesar and the men of his own time are counterparts for today's gangsters.
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They Crawl by Night!

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Synopsis: Ed stumbles across of underground creatures who want him to help lead them in conquest but he escapes them and seals up the entrance. He doesn't want the responsibility of leadership.
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What Stanley Saw!

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Synopsis: Stanley sees a spaceship but no one believes him and his boss lets him go. Stanley finds the aliens from the ship, who prove to be Plutonians. His boss and fiancee also see the aliens, but Stanley asks them to keep their existence a secret so they can end their wandering and live on Earth in peace. Stanley gets his job back.
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The Thirtieth Century

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Synopsis: A boy celebrates the turn of the millennium with a special trip to the moon.
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The Gray Thing!

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Synopsis: An antique dealer has a robot which was the property of a 17th century nobleman.
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The Man Who Crushed Rocks!

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Synopsis: In a swamp Kenyon finds water which grants him superhuman strength. He tries to go on a crime spree but Sheriff Taylor knows about the water and once it wears off Kenyon, he uses the water to easily capture his foe.
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The Long Sleep!

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A Witch by Night

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Synopsis: Ben meets young Abby and discovers she's a witch. Abby falls in love with him and, afraid of her power, he marries her.
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The Long Sleep!

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Synopsis: A criminal thinks he has shot a night watchman and goes into suspended animation for forty years so that the police will forget about him, but when he comes out of the suspended animation, he reads in the old newspaper that his partner was the one who wounded the night watchman earlier in the evening and the police never suspected him.
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Something Strange on the Sand!

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Synopsis: A man finds a city with a treasure that only appears once every several years and attempts to steal the treasure but fails.
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Trapped in the Dark!

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Synopsis: A swindler whose conscience is bothering him finds himself locked in an amusement park fun house where he sees visions of the people he has cheated.
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Robot Inventor

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Character(s): Ned Carter; Mr. Jonas
Synopsis: A disgruntled janitor's obsessive effort to create a sweeping robot costs him his job and ends in failure, but only because he sees no use for a perpetual motion machine.
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The Man Who Talked!

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Synopsis: A ventriloquist loses his dummy overboard and the island natives are about to destroy it when the ventriloquist speaks for the dummy many miles away.
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The Punishment of Paul Phillips!

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Synopsis: When a man testifying in court dreams of being executed due to circumstantial evidence he changes his attitude.
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Jack-in-the-Box!

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The Jack-in-the-Box

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Synopsis: Carter's party are told to keep away from the elephants' graveyard lest they offend the Elephant God. Carter doesn't believe in the warnings, only to be confronted by the 300 foot tall Elephant God.
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Octopus!

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Synopsis: In 1980, Bruce goes to sea to test his Histrometer and speak to people in the past. When a giant octopus menaces the ship he contacts his self in 1954 when he's serving in the US Navy and the Navy destroys the octopus then, removing it from 1980.
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Disclose Notes: Wessler credit per biblio info published in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 26, No. 4, April 2015.
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What Goes On down There?

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Genres: fantasy, horror
Synopsis: People from an underground kingdom head to the surface to conquer humanity, only to find they're smaller than ants.
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Job Number: L-270
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The Spirit of '76

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Genres: fantasy, horror
Character(s): Bobby Davis; Tom Davis; Alice Davis;
Synopsis: A young boy cleans out the attic of the old house his family moved into and meets a ghost from the Revolutionary War era.
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Job Number: J-169
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Earth-Trap!

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Genres: fantasy, horror
Synopsis: Miro tricks an old man into thinking he has telekinetic powers and can move objects. Because the old man is responsible for running the machine controlling Earth's gravity he thinks he's been derelict and modifies gravity so no one can move. Miro discovers he really is telepathic and sends a message to the old man to release people. Miro decides to work at a gas station rather than use his powers again.
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Job Number: L-192
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Man without Fear!

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Genres: fantasy, horror, war
Synopsis: Luke is afraid of going into battle. When the battle starts, he turns to run but is shot in the back. His spirit returns to charge into battle, inspiring people by his seeming courage.
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Job Number: L-109
Disclose Notes: Wessler credit per biblio info published in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 26, No. 4, April 2015.
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The Threat from the Void

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Genres: fantasy, horror
Synopsis: Peter Shield tries to contact other worlds while Earth is on the verge of World War III. When Jupiter contacts Earth they tell them they will destroy their planet unless they end all warfare. The threatened war doesn't happen.
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Job Number: L-232
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Metal Master

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Genres: fantasy, horror
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Something Is on This Ship!

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Genres: fantasy, horror, science fiction
Synopsis: A ship's mate joins the haunted ship 'Sulu Queen' to find out if the rumors of ghosts are true. When the captain dies of fright, the mate has no idea if there were actual ghosts.
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Job Number: L-348
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The Metal Master!

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Genres: fantasy, horror
Synopsis: Paul tries to create a perfect artist by building a robot who can paint but the robot tries to hypnotize Paul to serve him. Paul destroys the robot.
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Job Number: L-439
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More Than a Mortal!

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Genres: fantasy, horror
Synopsis: Joel thinks Shakespeare must have been more than mortal. Two men play a practical joke on him, only to realize later the man who told them to play the joke was Shakespeare.
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Job Number: L-490
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Hide-Out!

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Genres: fantasy, horror
Synopsis: Rick finds a piece of crystal which seems to grant his wishes; when he wishes his rivals would be put out of business they are quickly shut down. However, when the police come for him Rick drops the crystal and it breaks before he can make a wish.
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Job Number: L-444
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The Fountain of Youth

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Genres: fantasy, horror
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Job Number: G-269
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Nothing Can Stop It

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Genres: fantasy, horror
Synopsis: Steven creates a universal solvent but it keeps dissolving through the Earth to an unknown fate.
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Job Number: L-104
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The Shock!

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Genres: fantasy, horror
Synopsis: When Joe touches his radiator the electric charge teleports him across the country. Realizing he can commit robberies and avoid capture he steals from his employer then races home to touch his radiator, but because he didn't pay his bills the power has been shut off.
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Job Number: L-306
Disclose Notes: Wessler credit per biblio info published in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 26, No. 4, April 2015.
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The Door That Wouldn't Open!

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Genres: fantasy, horror
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Disclose Notes: Cover credits obtained from an article in From The Tomb #10 (June, 2003) by Dr. Michael J. Vassallo and Frank Motler via the GCD Comics Database List.
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You Used to Be Me!

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Genres: fantasy, horror
Synopsis: Frank has always resented John for having so much wealth. Becoming a scientist, he creates a machine to swap minds with John then discovers John has been confined to a wheelchair. John refuses to exchange lives with Frank again.
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Job Number: L-563
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Murder on His Mind

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Genres: crime, fantasy, horror
Synopsis: Frank is haunted by the voice of his old dummy Johnny. In trying to silence the dummy he is apprehended by the police for a robbery he committed.
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Job Number: L-665
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The Door That Wouldn't Open!

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Genres: fantasy, horror
Synopsis: Raymond creates a machine which can transport people anywhere in the world. After his death, Frankie learns his father sealed the machine inside a room. Unable to open the door Frankie becomes a criminal but the police catch him just as he discovers the means to open the door was to play his mother's music box, a way which Raymond had tried to discipline him as a child.
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Job Number: L-647
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The Voice of Doom!

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Genres: fantasy, horror
Synopsis: Joe begins picking up transmissions from space. His friends decide to prank him as Carl sends a message pretending to be an alien in human form. After the panicked Joe runs away from his radio, Carl sabotages the set so Joe won't eavesdrop on his people again.
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Job Number: L-582
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The Missing Squadrons

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Genres: fantasy, horror
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Job Number: H-639
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Volcano!

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Genres: fantasy, horror
Synopsis: Giovanni resents how his family lost their fortune when Pompeii was destroyed. He creates a time travel device to go back and save the family fortune, but ultimately chooses to save lives over the money. Returning to his own time he resolves to help others.
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Job Number: L-615
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It Walks in the Night!

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Genres: fantasy, horror
Synopsis: An inventor creates plastic which can be reshaped by people's thoughts. When they turn it into a gorilla they worry the gorilla will harm people and have it destroyed, then learn the plastic gorilla had helped a small child.
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Job Number: L-639
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In the fall of 1956...

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Disclose Notes: Presents first pages for eight stories scheduled to be included in the never-published "Tales to Astound You" and "Journey Into Fantasy."
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The Marvel Masterworks Library

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Disclose Notes: Listing of other available Marvel Masterworks volumes.

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