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Issue: Uncanny Tales #45
Publication Date: July 1956
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Issues: #45 of 56 Issues (57 Printings)
Title:
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: 8 (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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Inside the Pit!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
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Pages: 1
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The Hand!

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Writer(s): ?
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Genres: fantasy
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Pages: 4
Job Number: J-893
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The Men with Green Blood

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Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A doctor treats a wounded patient with green blood, but the patient dies and the blood color reverts to red. After he leaves the clinic, two people tail him but he manages to give them the slip and follow them back to a house where he learns they are mutants. A fire starts, and he escapes, but he suffers a cut during the experience and learns that he is a mutant as well.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: J-936
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Inside the Pit!

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Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A woman berates her husband for not being ambitious and he has an accident at the power plant which changes his personality. He attempts to extort the city by threatening to detonate the power plant, but another accident is arranged which puts his personality back the way it was and his wife is content.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: J-909
Disclose Notes: Wessler script from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
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The Cure!

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Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A doctor uses a time machine to try and wipe out the common cold virus in the past, but when he returns to the present he finds it overrun with beetles that the cold virus had destroyed before he mucked with time.
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Pages: 3
Job Number: J-956
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Movie Marvel

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Letterer(s): typeset
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In Content Item: FlagWorld of Fantasy #9 published December 1957
as Movie Maker [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "Movie Maker"
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Pages: 2
Job Number: K-72
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An Hour to Live!

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Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A man given three months to live builds a time machine which takes him to a point in the future where Earth's oxygen is diminishing with only a few hours left.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: J-927
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Behind the Wall!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Qín Shǐ Huáng (The First Emperor of China, 259-210 BC)
Synopsis: A man who resents the Great Wall of China as taking up resources that could have accelerated scientific progress finds himself back in time at its construction. He confronts the emperor who reveals that the wall was not built to keep out the Tartars, but rather alien invaders who ride dragon-like beasts and use gunpowder weapons.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: K-13

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