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Issue: Uncanny Tales #40
Publication Date: February 1956
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Issues: #40 of 56 Issues (57 Printings)
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Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Atlas [black & white]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Prime Publications Inc.
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: 9 (7 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.
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The Night the Sphinx Spoke!

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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Vince Coles; Jerry; Lou; Matt
Synopsis: Criminal Jerry uses a microphone to make the Sphinx 'talk' and commands people bring jewels to it, where a pharaoh claims the gems. Vince is arrested with his gang who were supposed to be playing the part of the pharaoh and his guards, but they reveal they were nabbed before the performance - the pharaoh was real.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: H-668
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There Is No Escape

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Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A robot tries to pit humans and androids against each other but the robot's creators intervene in time to stop him.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: H-862
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A Day to Remember

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Rupert; Thelma; Martians
Synopsis: Rupert is almost kidnapped and brought to Mars but escapes his captors. Realizing it was April Fool's Day, he decides it was all a prank. It wasn't.
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Pages: 3
Job Number: H-827
Disclose Notes: Wessler script from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
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Statement of ownership

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Statement Required by the Act of August 24, 1912.
For 1 Oct 1955. Stan Lee, Editor; Martin Goodman, Managing Editor; Monroe Froehlich, Jr., Business Manager. (Sequence info by Tom Lammers)
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Invasion

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
Job Number: H-903
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The Man Who Vanished!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Ogden; Dr. Don Keller
Synopsis: After pricking himself with Keller's formula Ogden finds himself in prehistory hunting a woolly mammoth with cavemen but when the formula wears off he forgets the experience.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: H-797
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A Man's Best Friend

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Bruce; Jovians; Count Ryk; Harvey Colby; Mrs. Colby
Synopsis: Jovians kidnap Bruce the dog, thinking him an Earthling. Bruce winds up thwarting Count Ryk's attempt to seize the emperor's throne, then the emperor sends Bruce home, afraid Bruce might take over the planet himself.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: H-778
Disclose Notes: Wessler script from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
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Trapped in the Labyrinth!

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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Holt; Wilson; Massam Farrah
Synopsis: Holt and Wilson fashion games to test each other. Holt loses when Wilson employs Farrah to trap Holt in a maze within his own mind.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: H-786

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