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Issue: The World Around Us #24
Publication Date: August 1960
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Issues: #24 of 36 Issues
Title: The Illustrated Story of Ghosts
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Publisher: FlagGilberton
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Indicia Publisher: Gilberton World-Wide Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/08/1960
Volume:
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
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Content Items: 19 (9 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Printed in the U.S.A. Information for this index supplied partly by Saltarella via the GCD Error Tracker. On-sale date from 1960 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: full color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: newsprint interior; glossy cover
Binding: squarebound
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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FlagWorld Illustrated #513 published January 1961
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The Illustrated Story of Ghosts

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Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Ghost
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The Wonderful World of Fairy Tales

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First Line: Only 15c Each
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Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Promo, with order coupon, for back issues of Classics Illustrated Junior (HRN 566).
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Character(s): Witch
First Line: Most of us have probably never seen a ghost face to faceless.
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The Hitchhiker

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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Doctor; young woman; parents
First Line: Late one Saturday night, a doctor was driving home after a call on a patient.
Synopsis: A doctor finds a young woman standing in the rain, and offers her a ride home. She disappears before he finds the house, where the parents tell him that their daughter was killed in a car crash, and that he is not the first driver who has tried to give her a ride home.
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Room for the Night

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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Husband; wife; Mrs. Jenkins; counterman
First Line: Like the tale of the ghostly hitch-hiker, this story has been told many times.
Synopsis: A lost couple find hospitality with elderly Mrs. Jenkins, and surreptitiously leave her an envelope with money when they depart. Being told that the house had burned down exactly a year earlier, killing Mrs. Jenkins, they return to investigate. They find the house in ruins, but they also find their envelope and money.
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The Ghost of Gold Gulch

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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Salesman; cowboys; Pete (bartender); Old Matt
First Line: One day, long before movie stars or the Dodgers came to California, a salesman from way back east in St. Louis brought his wares to a little mining town called Gold Gulch.
Synopsis: A man who loves beer and despises water keeps sipping the drinks of men in the saloon.
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The Chinese Sage

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Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Confucius
First Line: A woman was kneeling by a grave in a North China province.
Synopsis: The life and thought of Confucius.
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Ghosts That Make a Racket

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Genres: fantasy
First Line: The word poltergeist is German for 'ghost that makes a racket.'
Synopsis: Description of the supposed actions of poltergeists.
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The House of Flying Objects

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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Mother; father; Allen; Robin; detective; policeman
First Line: On February 3, 1958, a housewife in Long Island, New York, heard a loud popping noise coming from the basement of her home.
Synopsis: A family suffers a spell of mysterious and frightening events.
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Disclose Notes: The story states that these events began on February 3, 1958, but that all names have been changed. The story is based on events that supposedly took place at the Hermann house in the town of Seaford.
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The Talking Mongoose

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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Mr. Irving; Mrs. Irving; Voirrey; Gef
First Line: In 1931, Mr. and Mrs. James Irving and their daughter Voirrey lived on a farm on the Isle of Man's Dalby Mountain.
Synopsis: A being claiming to be a talking mongoose terrorizes a family.
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Olga's Revenge

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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Princess Olga; people of Kiev; Derevilians
First Line: 'We shall be slaves!'
Synopsis: Kiev is defeated in battle, and its prince slain. But widowed Princess Olga outwits the would-be conquerors.
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The Mummy's Foot

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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Narrator; curiosity seller; Princess Hermonthis; Pharaoh; Alfred
First Line: I had strolled into the Paris shop of one of those dealers in curiosities.
Synopsis: The narrator reunites a long-dead princess with her mummified foot.
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The Mysterious Lake

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Genres: nature, non-fiction
First Line: The sun beat down on the desert sands.
Synopsis: How, why, and when mirages appear.
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The Sixth Sense

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Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Carl; Dave; students; bus passengers; Emanuel Swedenborg; mother; father; Tom; bus driver; Carl Jung [Dr. C. G. Jung]
First Line: All through the ages, there have been stories about objects moving when no one is near, and about people who can see into the future, guess what others are thinking, and know what is happening far away.
Synopsis: Examples of different types of supposed extrasensory perception.
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The Yellow Star

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Genres: historical, non-fiction
First Line: A decree had been issued in Nazi Germany.
Synopsis: A Nazi order that Jews must wear identifying badges meets surprising resistance in various parts of Europe. The Danish government refuses to collaborate, and the Danish underground spirits 6000 of the country's 7500 Jews to safety.
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The Scientific Search

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Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Scientists; test subjects
First Line: Many institutions throughout the world are doing research on extrasensory perception.
Synopsis: Scientific researchers at Duke University design and conduct experiments testing for extrasensory perception.
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A Question of Ghosts

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First Line: How many of these ghosts can you recognize?
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Read the Best in the World's Finest Juvenile Publication

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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover. Promo, with order coupon, for back issues of Classics Illustrated (HRN 155).
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Disclose Notes: Back cover. Promo, with response coupon, for subscriptions to The World Around Us.

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