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Issue: Strange Tales #51
Publication Date: October 1956
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Issues: #51 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: 07/03/1956
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)
Editor(s):  
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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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The Insects!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.
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The Insects!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: J-823
Disclose Notes: Considerable alterations in another hand (especially page 4), perhaps for Comics Code compliance? (Note by Haydn)
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Inside the Black Box

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: J-732
Disclose Notes: Wessler credit per biblio info published in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 26, No. 4, April 2015.
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No Place on Earth!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: J-733
Disclose Notes: Wessler credit per biblio info published in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 26, No. 4, April 2015.
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He Stalks By Night!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagGiant-Size Man-Thing #2 published November 1974
as He Stalks By Night! [Story on Interior Page(s)]erroneously credited in the reprint blurb as from Tales to Astound You #7
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: J-744
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Over the Moon

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Mr. Collins; Jim
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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagJourney into Unknown Worlds #58 published June 1957
as The Little Green Man [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "The Little Green Man"
In Content Item: FlagStrange Worlds #4 published June 1959
as Over the Moon [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #93 [U.S. Cover Price] published June 1963
as Over the Moon [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #245 published January 1988
as Over the Moon [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Stories of Suspense #235 published January 1988
as Over the Moon [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: J-884
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Blackout!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: J-787
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The Thing in the Jungle!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, science fiction
Character(s): Cliff Morgan
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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #16 [unnamed variant] published April 1975
as The Thing in the Jungle! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: J-692

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