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Issue: Magnus, Robot Fighter #23
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Is Variant Variant: Canadian
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Publisher: FlagWestern
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Indicia Publisher: Western Publishing Company Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/16/1968
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Pages: 36
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Price: $0.15 USD
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Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
10 (3 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
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Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1968 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress. A price variant intended for Canadian distribution, with replaced cover price.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US (#1-19); standard Modern Age US (#20-up)
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint Interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
science fiction, superhero
Magnus
Magnus acts swiftly to reactivate North Am's mysteriously immobilized robot population!
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Mission: Disaster!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Subject Matter
science fiction, superhero
Magnus; Leeja Clane; Marag; Larinna; technicians; scientists
Magnus is testifying in the trial of Marag, a rob-control chief charged with salvage thievery... when suddenly...
Rays from a meteor shower disable robots, but Marag and Larinna find a cure, then use their resultant popularity as a springboard to power. They plot to use the rays and sabotage the Niagara power complex, but Magnus defeats them.
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Miscellaneous
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MAGNUS R.F. #23-685
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Subject Matter
Gold Key Comics Club News
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Assorted announcements, and two drawings by readers Stephen Marz and Jimmy Robinson.
Animals

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
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various
various
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typeset
Subject Matter
nature
Gold Key Club Comics Reader's Page
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Drawings of animals sent in by readers Susan Magee, Bev Bandy, Bart Poste, John Price, and Gerald Owsley.
Inventions

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
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various
various
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typeset
Subject Matter
science and technology
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Drawings of inventions sent in by readers Joedy Moots, Chris Velazquez, and Mark Ensor.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
various
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Subject Matter
humorous
Gold Key Club Comics Jokes On You; Gold Key Kid
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Gold Key Kid comic strip, plus jokes sent in by readers Lisa Brown, Lynn Morgan, Allan Rollins, Tony Cassady, Judy Comeau, Carmen Hidalgo, John Grimes, Karen Pachuta, Natalie Adele Heller, Lisa Kennedy, Tracey Riggs, S. Edward Miller, Joel Tremblay, John K. Pase, Jeff Green, Lisa Van Atta, Wendy Cuellar, Patti Miller, Bruce N. Osborne, and Debbie Ann Davis.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Letter from Chris Silver (only a single, full page, letter this issue).
Danger from Beyond

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Subject Matter
science fiction
Captain Johner; Commander Zarz; M'Reema [Reema]; Omog (mysterious time being); Space Control personnel
With the final destruction of the time-guards, a great upheaval takes place.
Omog is released, the Johner party returned, and Venus saved from the false-men. But the planet is suddenly out of contact with the rest of the solar system.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Subject Matter
humorous
Gold Key Club Comics Mini-Comics
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Two Mini-Comics, both 0.5 page each, both in pantomime (no dialogue).
Pterodactyl

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Subject Matter
nature, non-fiction
Gold Key Club Comics; Dinosauria
Filling the sky of the Upper Jurassic age was a group of flying reptiles known as pterodactyls.
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1

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