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Issue: Strange Suspense Stories #6

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Publication Date: March 1969

Issue #6
- #1
- #2
- #3
- #4
- #5
- ✔ #6
- #7
- #8
- #9
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Issues: #6 of 9 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Charlton

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Indicia Publisher: Charlton Press Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.12 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 5 (4 stories, 1 cover)

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: Four Color

Dimensions: Standard Silver Age US

Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior

Binding: Saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series

Format Notes:

Reprinted In4

2 Content Items
- The Money Machine [Story on Interior Page(s)]2
- Paradise Acres [Story on Interior Page(s)]2

reprinted 4 times as Content Items in other Issues.

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Cover, Front

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Content Items (5 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Cover images taken from inside stories.

The 2nd Age of Monsters

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Joe Gill ?

Penciller(s): Mo Marcus ?

Inker(s): Vince Alascia

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Dr Jim Braithard; Dr Manzeo; Anne, Jim's wife; police lieutenant; various native henchmen

Synopsis: Dr Manzeo discovers that living creatures can be made into giants by feeding them a "prehistoric" variety of swamp moss. He is stopped by a giant-sized Jim who forces him to turn over the antidote to restore all of Manzeo's experimental subjects (and Jim himself) to normal size.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 9

Job Number: B-1604

La Bruja Del Brujamo

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy, horror, occult

Character(s): Albert Powell; Colonel Juan Mendoza; The Witch; Dr Frederico Cabrino; John Campbell

Synopsis: A witch who had healed a young Albert Powell places a curse on Albert's wife for neglecting to support her in her later years. After it has all been explained as a misunderstanding, Albert's wife is cured. Subsequently the man who has been embezzling the support money confesses.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

The Money Machine

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy, horror, occult

Character(s): Murray Spence; Mr Blurp; unnamed bartender; Humphrey Stout; the ghost of Leon Frammis

Synopsis: Murray Spence attempts to sell a machine that he claims will transform $10 bills into fifties. He foolishly plies his con from the very room where magician and spiritualist Leon Frammis lived his last days. Frammis punishes Spence by exposing him as a fraud and finally taking over his body.

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Ghostly Tales #153 published February 1982
as Paradise Acres [Story on Interior Page(s)]

In Content Item: Flag

Ghostly Tales #153 published February 1982
as The Money Machine [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Job Number: B-1746

Paradise Acres

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy

Feature(s): Jason Jaxon

Character(s): Jefferson Lincoln Rimmon III [Bubi]; Jason Jaxon; George

Synopsis: Real estate developer Jason Jaxon intends to fill in Bubi's swamp and build a tract of homes. However he is defeated by Bubi who calls upon his friends, the creatures of the swamp, to thwart Jaxon's plans.

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Planet Series v2 #1 published April 1979
as Paradise Acres [Story on Interior Page(s)]

In Content Item: Flag

Ghostly Tales #153 published February 1982
as Paradise Acres [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Job Number: B-1744

Notes: Bubi seems to be inspired by the title character of the Irvin S Cobb short story "Fishhead", a freakish fish-man who is one with his wetland environment and whose murder at the hands of "fever-ridden squatters" is avenged by the denizens of the swamp.