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Issue: Marvel Tales #138
Publication Date: September 1955
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Issues: #138 of 67 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Atlas [black & white]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Last Seen Climbing a Ladder!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Maneely credit per atlastales.com. Burgos alterations per Michael J. Vassallo.

Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.
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Tomorrow!

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Synopsis: Fired from his job Harry Dunston is approached by the Protector, whose special glasses see 24 hours into the future. His group protect people from accidents and they offer Harry a job. He later sees his former boss struggling to stay afloat in the river but turns in an incomplete report. The Protector fires him for his dishonesty but Harry plans to get the glasses back and watch his ex-boss drown. Instead a truck knocks him into the river and his former boss jumps in to save him. The Protector's agents save both men and admonish Harry for his evil scheme. Harry resolves to change his ways.
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In Content Item: FlagCrypt of Shadows #9 published March 1974
as Tomorrow! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
Job Number: G-515
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Last Seen Climbing a Ladder!

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Synopsis: A mocked scientist succeeds in building a ladder to an asteroid.
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In Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #2 published February 1974
as Last Seen Climbing a Ladder! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 4
Job Number: G-401
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The Little Men!

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Synopsis: A carnival owner comes across small aliens who are spraying crops so that humans who eat the food will produce midgets so they won't have a size advantage when they invade, but he fools them into leaving Earth by claiming that the food is only producing small children ten percent of the time and producing giants the rest. He displays his circus giant to them as proof and they buy into his lie and leave.
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In Content Item: FlagWeird Wonder Tales #2 published February 1974
as I Was Kidnapped by a Flying Saucer! [Story on Interior Page(s)]retitled: I Was Kidnapped by a Flying Saucer!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: G-441
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The Thinker

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
Job Number: G-722
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When Warren Woke Up!

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Genres: horror, science fiction
Synopsis: An atomic weapons scientist has a dream that the plants have become fed up with humans and have taken over the Earth. When he wakes up in the morning, he finds that is what has happened.
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In Content Item: FlagBeware #7 published March 1974
as When Warren Woke Up! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 4
Job Number: G-405
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Crack-Up!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Synopsis: Spaceship pilots who can't make the grade in rocket flight school are tested in simulations.
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In Content Item: FlagWeird Wonder Tales #2 published February 1974
as Crack-Up! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
Job Number: G-467

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