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Issue: Strange Tales #43
Publication Date: February 1956
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Issues: #43 of 168 Issues (244 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Atlas [black & white]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Chipiden Publishing Corp.
On Sale Date: 11/04/1955
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1955 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US and standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Format Notes:  
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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The Mysterious Machine!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #5 [Regular Edition] published October 2011
as [Strange Tales #43] The Mysterious Machine! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Man Who Lived Twice!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Hal Walters
Synopsis: A man dying on the operating table finds that time has stopped for everybody but him. He intuits that eventually time will start back up, but he uses the time he has been given to do good deeds for people.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #183 published January 1980
as The Man Who Lived Twice! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #5 [Regular Edition] published October 2011
as The Man Who Lived Twice! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: H-564
Disclose Notes: Title lettering is by Artie Simek. The rest is by an unknown letterer.
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The Swami

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Rijak Lobar; John McDermott
Synopsis: A greedy man misinterprets a fortune-teller's prediction and spends money that he'll never have.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMystic #58 published April 1957
as The Crystal Ball [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "The Crystal Ball"
In Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #60 [U.S. Cover Price] published September 1960
as The Swami [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #5 [Regular Edition] published October 2011
as The Swami [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1.6
Job Number: H-746
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I Saved Mankind!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Lester Harmon
Synopsis: A man drives off aliens that were attempting to pour canisters into water reservoirs but the contents would have made people immune to disease.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #5 [Regular Edition] published October 2011
as I Saved Mankind! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: H-597
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Behind the Mask!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Joe Fenton; Agnes Fenton; Ogu
Synopsis: A clown who can't have children finds an abandoned baby and takes him in only to discover the seeming infant is an alien spy. He is about to turn the creature in until he overhears the spy give his report to his superiors and requests that he be able to remain a human infant since he loves his adoptive parents.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #183 published January 1980
as Behind the Mask! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #5 [Regular Edition] published October 2011
as Behind the Mask! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: H-625
Disclose Notes: Possible Giella inks per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Bob Brown.
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The Mysterious Machine!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Fred Harper; Louella Harper
Synopsis: A man invents a machine that changes his wife from harping shrew to devoted haus frau.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #191 published January 1981
as The Mysterious Machine [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #5 [Regular Edition] published October 2011
as The Mysterious Machine! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: H587
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The Unbelievable Man!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Professor Bryce; Davis; Noah Javis
Synopsis: A man from 1793 uses a time machine to bring electronic parts from 1956 into the past for his experiments until he is interrupted by researchers. They force him to return to the past without the last component he needs for his work and all the electric lights around the world go out.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #5 [Regular Edition] published October 2011
as The Unbelievable Man! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: H-613

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