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Issue: Amazing Adventures #1
Publication Date: June 1961
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Issues: #1 of 6 Issues (8 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Atlas Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/07/1961
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 5 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in March 1961. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.
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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.
Disclose Images2
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Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Adult Image
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
Character(s): Torr
First Line: Look at this print!!
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Visionaries: Jack Kirby #1 published October 2004
In Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #175 [U.S. Cover Price] published August 1974
as Torr! The Most Murderous Beast-Man of All! [Illustration on Cover, Front]slightly redrawn
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Fantasy Omnibus #[nn] [Steve Ditko cover] published August 2007
as Torr! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Torr

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
Character(s): Torr; Paul Ramsay; John Carter
First Line: He's trapped us in here!
Synopsis: Paul Ramsay is tried for murdering his friend and can't reveal that an alien had taken over John Carter's body for fear that his revelation will start an invasion.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMystic #25 published January 1962
as Torr [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #175 [U.S. Cover Price] published August 1974
as Torr [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Fantasy Omnibus #[nn] [Steve Ditko cover] published August 2007
as Torr [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: V-165
Disclose Notes: This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"Torr!" (7 pp).
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Masquerade

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Character(s): Tommy; Kitty Blake; Old King Cole
First Line: Tommy used to be the fellow from Missouri...
Synopsis: Tom is a practical, doubting kind of person, who has no time for flights of fancy. As a child, he never had time for fairy tales and nursery rhymes. Then a young girl invites him to a costume party. He goes to the wrong address and encounters real life fairy tale creatures
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Fantasy Omnibus #[nn] [Steve Ditko cover] published August 2007
as Masquerade [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Unknown Worlds #38 published October 1955
was Masquerade [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: G-750
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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Midnight in the Wax Museum

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Character(s): Pierre La Roc
First Line: A most dangerous criminal is caught red-handed...
Synopsis: Pierre La Roc is a criminal on the run, he climbs in through an open widow to escape the police, and finds himself in a wax museum. He hides as part of one of the exhibits as the police search the place. After the police leave, the wax figures come to life and chase La Roc out of the building, whereupon he then surrenders to the police. Later, a policeman discusses the strange case with a figure in a top hat, who later returns to his place as one of the wax figures in the museum.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #175 [U.S. Cover Price] published August 1974
as Midnight in the Wax Museum [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Fantasy Omnibus #[nn] [Steve Ditko cover] published August 2007
as Midnight in the Wax Museum [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-163
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I Am the Fantastic Dr. Droom!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Dr. Anthony Droom [later retroactively renamed Doctor Druid] (introduction, origin)
Synopsis: In the City Medical Club, a group of doctors is discussing the Tibetan lama who has requested medical attention from a Western physician. Anthony Droom decides to lend a hand. The lama announced that he was fit to replace the aged master in his battle against evil and transforms him into an Asian.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Visionaries: Jack Kirby #1 published October 2004
In Content Item: FlagWeird Wonder Tales #19 published December 1976
as I Am Dr. Druid! [Story on Interior Page(s)]character renamed from Doctor Droom to Doctor Druid
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Fantasy Omnibus #[nn] [Steve Ditko cover] published August 2007
as I Am the Fantastic Dr. Droom! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-164
Disclose Notes: This is the first Doctor Droom story, Droom was later renamed Doctor Druid retroactively.

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