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Issue: Strange Stories of Suspense #16
Publication Date: August 1957
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Issues: #16 of 12 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Atlas [black & white]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Classic Syndicate 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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The 8th Wonder of the World!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Fred Kida
Inker(s): Fred Kida
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.
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The Eighth Wonder of the World

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Richard Doxsee (signed)
Inker(s): Richard Doxsee (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Joe Letterese ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Four conmen come up with an idea to dig up a giant that they plant in the earth and exhibit it to make money but they disturb a real giant with their scheme.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-294
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Only One Returned!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Forte (signed)
Inker(s): John Forte (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Joe Letterese
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Two men descend into a cave shaft and one plots to dispose of the other so that he can marry his girlfriend. He cuts the rope and the other man falls into the river, but he gets rescued, and the evil man gets stuck in quarantine due to the uranium contamination.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: M-278
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The Swami's Secret

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bob Bean
Inker(s): Bob Bean
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A mind-reading swami is undone when he comes across an individual he believes is an alien preparing to invade. He signs a confession to the police that he has been swindling wealthy clients for years but thinks the occasion is important enough to reveal his secret ability. The police check his story, but it turns out that 'alien' is an actor preparing a role.
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In Content Item: FlagCrypt of Shadows #15 published January 1975
as The Swami's Secret! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 4
Job Number: M-277
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The Second-Hand Man!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ed Winiarski
Inker(s): Ed Winiarski
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: When a law-abiding man buys a used car that had belonged to an executed gangster, he finds himself behaving in reckless and aggressive ways.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: M-223
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The Missing Tooth

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Alfred Pook; Harold; Dr. Smith
Synopsis: A man becomes confused over directions to the dentist and as a result accidentally pilots an expedition to claim a new planet.
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From Content Item: FlagMystery Tales #45 published September 1956
was Strange Mission [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "The Missing Tooth"
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-440
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The Missing Sun

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Matt Fox (signed)
Inker(s): Matt Fox (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A giant insect blots out Earth's sun and even more giant creatures save Earth by getting the insect to leave.
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Pages: 3
Job Number: M-238
Disclose Notes: Wessler script from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
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Bewitched!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bob Powell (signed)
Inker(s): Bob Powell ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Joe Letterese ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: The book of Genda, a yogi fanatic, holds a town paralyzed until a man's glasses slip off his face and light magnified through one of the lenses burns up the pages.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: M-268

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