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Issue: Adventures into the Unknown #78 Public Domain
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia Publisher: Best Syndicated Features Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 8 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Richard Hughes [as Richard E. Hughes]
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Beware the Ides of March!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Ogden Whitney (signed)
Ogden Whitney (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
horror
Reprinting
FlagUncanny Tales #148 published January 1981
as Beware the Ides of March! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
FlagUncanny Tales #68 published ?
as Beware the Ides of March! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
 
Miscellaneous
1
Rosie and Red Russia!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Ogden Whitney (signed)
Ogden Whitney (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
science fiction
Marya; Svorsky; Rosie; Vanya Tchekov; Natasha Tchekov
Russian scientists capture an alien with special powers, but it turns out the alien was studying the scientists just as much as the scientists were studying the alien.
Reprinting
FlagUnknown Worlds #27 published October 1963
as Strange Little Beast [Story on Interior Page(s)]retitled
 
Miscellaneous
8
Fabulous Animal

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Typeset
Subject Matter
science fiction
Adam Collier; Dr. Farrand; Hugh Joiner
Adam Collier, an archeologist, proves that unicorns existed.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
The Case of the Vanishing Indian!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Pete Costanza ?
?
?
?
Subject Matter
science fiction
Uncanny Mysteries
Ed Morris; Os-Kee-Da
Ed Morris, a rancher, gets into an accident and is saved by the ghost of an Indian with a withered arm.
Reprinting
FlagMidnight Mystery #7 published October 1961
as Man with the Withered Arm [Story on Interior Page(s)]retitled
FlagSinister Tales #141 published January 1975
as The Case of the Vanishing Indian! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagUncanny Tales #123 published January 1977
as The Case of the Vanishing Indian! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
3
Beware the Ides of March!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
John Rosenberger [as John R]
John Rosenberger [as John R]
?
?
Subject Matter
science fiction
Tony Blake [Julius Caesar]
Tony Blake goes through life having accidents on the 15th of March every year, and knows Latin without having been taught it. He becomes a brilliant military strategist and everything he does echoes the life of Julius Caesar.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
8
[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Typeset
Subject Matter
Let's Talk It Over!
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Letters to the editor from Barnet Hollis, Betty Jean Perotti, Leo Killian, August Henline, and F. S. Goodman.
The Second Mrs. Manion!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Creig Flessel ?; Emil Gershwin ?
Creig Flessel ?; Emil Gershwin ?
?
?
Subject Matter
science fiction
Bill Manion; Lady Cynthia Conway; Alfred Conway
On her way to meet Bill Manion, Lady Cynthia Conway gets into a car accident. In England, Cynthia comes out of a coma, certain she was Mrs. Bill Manion and living in Kansas. After five years she slipped into a coma again, but Bill, having received a letter from her, arrives to retrieve her. He insists Cynthia has been with him in Kansas the last five years. She awakes and the pair head home.
Reprinting
FlagForbidden Worlds #103 published May 1962
as Alter Ego! [Story on Interior Page(s)]retitled
FlagTales of the Supernatural #[nn] published January 1964
as The Second Mrs. Manion! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAstounding Stories #130 published January 1978
as The Second Mrs. Manion! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
4
No. 1 The Broken Mirror

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Pete Costanza ?
Pete Costanza ?
?
?
Subject Matter
informational, science fiction
What's Behind That Superstition?
Dr. Orin Blakely; Al Barrone
Dr. Orin Blakely of the Institute of Psychic Research explains the origins of the superstitions surrounding breaking mirrors.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
3

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