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Issue: Strange Worlds #5
Publication Date: August 1959
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Issues: #5 of 5 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Manvis 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: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newsstands in May 1959. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. All new stories in this issue are narrated in the first person unless otherwise specified.

Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
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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
Format Notes:  
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
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Original Artwork
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The Three Who Vanished!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Roger; Clark; Dave
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Word balloons lettered by someone other than Artie Simek.
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We Are the 3 Who Vanished!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Roger; Clark; Dave
First Line: They've been in there for days...and we've had no word from them!
Synopsis: Three scientists disappear without a trace, leaving a journal explaining that they were working on a time machine. The police never know what happened, because the time machine succeeded, but transformed the three men into three seventeenth-century scientists thinking about a time machine, unaware of their true identities.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAstounding Stories #98 published January 1973
as We Are the 3 Who Vanished! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #179 published January 1987
as We Are the 3 Who Vanished! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #63 published ?
as We Are the 3 Who Vanished [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the third person.
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The Holiday

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Zed; Zack
Synopsis: A boy celebrates the turn of the millennium with a special trip to the moon.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMystic #40 published October 1955
was The Holiday [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: G-790
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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I Couldn't Stop the Runaway Comet!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Victor Sage
First Line: The people of the world had counted on me -- but --
Synopsis: In the year 2060 a vain elected official feels that the forces of science will be sufficient to deal with the menace of an impending comet but everything they try to either destroy or divert the comet fails. Finally all humanity, including the official, turn to prayer, and the comet is swept aside from its collision course with Earth.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAstounding Stories #98 published January 1973
as I Couldn't Stop the Runaway Comet! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #63 published ?
as I Couldn't Stop the Runaway Comet! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-333
Disclose Notes: First line is followed by the title.
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I Am...Gorilla!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Bongo
Synopsis: An atomic explosion makes a gorilla as intelligent as a human. It is overjoyed, and plans to conquer mankind or to teach humans through dialogue, but its artificial intelligence quickly dissipates.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #157 published January 1977
as I Am... Gorilla! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #223 published January 1988
as I Am...Gorilla! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #59 published ?
as I Am...Gorilla! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: T-318
Disclose Notes: No narration. This story is retold in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #83 (August 1962) as "When the Jungle Sleeps", by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, with a lion instead of an ape. Speculative Stan Lee writer credit on the basis of his signature on later retelling.
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Don't Send Me...Out There!!!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A space pilot is terrified of taking another flight but his family is unsympathetic. Their attitude is out of surprise, since a robot has never before been afraid.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAstounding Stories #98 published January 1973
as Don't Send Me...Out There!!! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: T-321
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They Call Me...Space Pirate

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Sandor
First Line: It was an age of intergalactic space travel...but it was also an age of space piracy!
Synopsis: A successful space pirate tries to conquer a world without technology to use as a base. He is surprised to find that the inhabitants are actually advanced "homo superior" with psychic powers, and they easily imprison him and his men.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-320
Disclose Notes: Speculative writing credit to Stan Lee based on early use of the term "homo superior". This is the earliest known story to use this term, later to be the standard term for mutants in the Marvel Universe.

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