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Issue: Strange Mysteries #9 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1958
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Issues: #9 of 8 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagI. W. Publishing; Super Comics
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: I. W. Enterprises Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 16 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Contents reprinted from Spook (Star Publications, 1953 series) #28, some of which was reprinted material.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Some/all of Issue reprinted as/in another Issue:
FlagPS Artbooks Softee: Strange Mysteries #1 published June 2002
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The Monstrous Madmen!!

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Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Pages: 1
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Penciller(s): ?; ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ?; ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Big bull whip
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Pages: 1
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Creeping Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: horror
Character(s): Jack Carter; Gale Blakely; Alfred Blakely; Ambrose
Synopsis: A microscopic creature grows in size and wants to take over the world.
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From Content Item: FlagSpook #28 published April 1954
was Creeping Death [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Death Dance

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Ross Croft; Jimmy Fisk
Synopsis: Jimmy has killed a sacred white elephant.
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From Content Item: FlagSpook #28 published April 1954
was Death Dance [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1.8
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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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First Line: Read I. W. Comics they are top quality comics
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Pages: 0.2
Disclose Notes: At the bottom of the first page of Death Dance.
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[untitled]

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First Line: Boys! Girls! Ladies! Men! Win a beautiful signet ring engraved with your own initial
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Wilson Chemical Co.
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[untitled]

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First Line: Hi-power binoculars
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Bruce Sales Co.
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[untitled]

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First Line: Toy bonanza
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Modern Toy Company.

Before page 2 of Death Dance.
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The Monstrous Madmen

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Writer(s): ?
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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Red Rocket
Character(s): Red Rocket [Rod Page]; Chuck; Hurr
Synopsis: Children around the world are being changed.
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From Content Item: FlagCaptain Flight Comics #11 published February 1947
was Monstrous ..Mutants.. [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: As reprinted in Spook (Star Publications, 1953 series) #28 (April 1954). Original title: "Monstrous Mutants."

Artwork is signed in original publication. Was credited to "Lou Ferstadt ?".
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Jade of Death..!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Gahna; Amazo
Synopsis: Amazo and her amazons kill Gahna's people and he seeks revenge.
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From Content Item: FlagRulah #21 published December 1948
was The Wondrous Jade Ju-Ju [Story on Interior Page(s)]as reprinted in Spook
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: As reprinted in Spook (Star Publications, 1953 series) #28 (April 1954). Original title: "The Wondrous Jade Ju-Ju."
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[untitled]

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Writer(s): ?
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Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Ted
First Line: Fear no man learn karate self-defense!!!
Synopsis: Ted defends himself from some attackers.
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Bruce Tegner's "Karate" book from Davis & Bennett.

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First Line: Mystify your friends! Baffle your family! You'll astonish them 250 magic tricks revealed
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First Line: Giant flying plastic jet - now only $1
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Before page 6 of Jade of Death..!
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[untitled]

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First Line: You, too, can be tough!
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[untitled]

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First Line: New super-speed way to add pounds of solid muscle to chest, back, arms, wrists!
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Disclose Notes: Medford Products, Inc.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Boys! Girls! Ladies! Men! Win a beautiful signet ring engraved with your own initial
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Wilson Chemical Co.

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