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Issue: Fear #3
Publication Date: March 1971
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Issues: #3 of 31 Issues (40 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Magazine Management Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 10 (9 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched (#1-6 squarebound)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Zzutak! The Thing That Shouldn't Exist!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Zzutak the Thing That Shouldn't Exist!!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Frank Johnson (introduction); Yucoya-Tzin (introduction, not named); Zzutak (introduction, origin); Zzutak's enemy (introduction, origin)
Synopsis: An American comic book artist is given magic paints which make whatever is painted with them real. He is compelled to go to Mexico and paint a monster as planned by the Aztec priest who gave him the paints. When he is ordered to paint more monsters, the artist uses his willpower to make his next monster fight the first, causing the temple to collapse on both monsters, giving the priest amnesia and ending his threat.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #88 [U.S. Cover Price] published September 1961
was Zzutak the Thing That Shouldn't Exist!! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: V-299
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. Frank Johnson, Yucoya-Tzin, Zzutak and Zzutak's enemy all next appear in Fantastic Four Unlimited (Marvel, 1993 series) #7 (September 1994).
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I Must Find Korumbu!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Hugo Barge; Korumbu
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #64 published January 1961
was I Must Find Korumbu! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-10
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The Man Who Hated Monstro!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: nature
Character(s): Karl Krumm; Monstro
Synopsis: A star acrobat is jealous of a popular gorilla at his circus and torments it. Finally, he arranges for the gorilla to break free so that it will be shot, but it has enough strength left to swing out on the trapeze to get revenge.
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From Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #92 [U.S. Cover Price] published May 1963
was The Man Who Hated Monstro! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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The Gentle Old Man!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Gregory "Greedy" Grundy
Synopsis: A greedy landlord is captured by a time traveler who maintains a collection of 'dolls' consisting of miniaturized heartless people from different eras.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #94 [U.S. Cover Price] published July 1963
was The Gentle Old Man! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: X-308
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Journey Into Nowhere!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Walter Johnson; Thomas Blake
First Line: It's an age of tension and uncertainty...
Synopsis: Two scientists working on a time machine have differing opinions about the possibility of traveling into the future. When their attempt to do so seems to take them to the stone age, they believe they have proved travel into the future impossible, not suspecting that they actually saw the world after the destruction of civilization by war.
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From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #69 published June 1959
was Journey into Nowhere! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: T-225
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the second person.
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A Monster Waits Outside!!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Maj. Ford
Synopsis: An astronaut is sent into orbit in a tiny sphere without communication. He sees a monster trying to claw its way in and panics, signalling ground control to bring him back. They think that it was a hallucination, but they find a broken claw on the spacecraft.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #12 published October 1960
was A Monster Waits Outside!! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-876
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the second person.
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Save Me! Save Me!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Albert Poole
Synopsis: A scientist makes himself able to walk on water in order to steal secret military plans from a ship. But when he returns to the shore he finds that he now sinks on land.
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From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #12 published October 1960
was Save Me! Save Me! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-875
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person.
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The Lifeless Man!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Joey Clark
Synopsis: A young boy prefers an old wooden toy soldier to more modern toys. His friends make fun of the toy, but when they are threatened by a bear the soldier seems to drive it off with its rifle, and from then on they all love toy soldiers.
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From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #88 [U.S. Cover Price] published September 1961
was The Lifeless Man! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-301
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I Dared to Battle...Rorgg King of the Spider Men!!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Rorgg; Tim; Frank; Ann
Synopsis: Rorgg invades a small New Mexico town and our boy hero kills him dead with a spray can of DDT.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #64 published January 1961
was I Dared to Battle...Rorgg, King of the Spider-Men!! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: T-992
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person.

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