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Issue: Strange Tales of the Unusual #9
Publication Date: April 1957
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Issues: #9 of 11 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Atlas [black & white]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Warwick 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)
Editor(s): Stan Lee
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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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They Meet at Night!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Bill Everett
Inker(s): Bill Everett
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.
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They Meet at Night!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Mac Pakula (signed)
Inker(s): Mac Pakula (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Joe Letterese
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A Martian arrives to capture an Earth man, but he mistakenly abducts another Martian who had arrived a thousand years ago and disguised himself as a human.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-553
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Prophet of Doom!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jim Mooney
Inker(s): Jim Mooney
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Sam Rosen ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A bank robber who thinks he can foresee the future brings about his own capture when he foresees the train he is on being in a wreck and pulls the emergency cord to exit. Since he stopped the train while it was on the tracks, it is indeed struck by another train and he gets clipped by a flying piece of debris which gives the authorities time to catch up and apprehend him.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagChamber of Chills #14 published January 1975
as Prophet of Doom! [Story on Interior Page(s)]job number removed
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-412
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A Matter of Life or Death!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Sol Brodsky [as "Solly"]
Inker(s): Sol Brodsky [as "Solly"]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Joe Letterese
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A gardener buys a can of pesticide that the chemical company had accidentally filled with Nitro instead.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreatures on the Loose #32 [U.S. Cover Price] published November 1974
as A Matter of Life or Death! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: L-312
Disclose Notes: Wessler script from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
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Mind Reader!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Bernie Krigstein (signed)
Inker(s): Bernie Krigstein (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Joe Letterese ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A Nazi saboteur with the ability to read minds makes friends as a cover with an American who can read minds as well, so when he tries to plant his time bomb at the munitions factory, the American wraps it up as a gift and gives it back to him so that it will detonate killing him and the submarine crew that has picked him up.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: L-556
Disclose Notes: Wessler script from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
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Image in the Mirror

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Gene Colan (illustration)
Inker(s): Gene Colan (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Bruce Morton; Miss Coleman
Synopsis: A wealthy but unhappy man is motivated to change his life by the vision of his past that he sees in his mirror.
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From Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales #143 published February 1956
was The Mirror [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "Image in the Mirror"
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: H-762
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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Stowaway In The Sky!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Ed Winiarski
Inker(s): Ed Winiarski
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Joe Letterese ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A man foils spies attempting to steal his plane made of gravity defying metal by outfitting his crew with safety harnesses made of the same material and having them bail out. The spies think the men have been killed, but as they hang motionless, they turn the plane around so that when it lands the spies are captured.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: L-584
Disclose Notes: Wessler script from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
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Captured By The Cave Men!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Tony Dipreta
Inker(s): Tony Dipreta
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Two scientists discover a race of people living underground who hunt surface people. They destroy their equipment so that they no longer have access to the surface.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: L-546

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