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Issue: The Twilight Zone #47
Publication Date: January 1973
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Issues: #47 of 92 Issues (123 Printings)
Title:
Variant: 15¢ Cover Price
Rating:
Publisher: FlagWestern
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Western Publishing Company Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/1972
Volume:
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 16 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Cover code: 90016-301. Edited out of Western Publishing's New York offices.

Publication date is derived from the cover code. On sale date (month and year) is derived from the issue code appearing in the bottom tier of page one.

First issue of this title to be published after Western Publishing ceased offering mail subscriptions. No subscriptions offered in indicia.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US; later standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Monster Street Lights

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, horror, science fiction
Character(s): Police Lt. Joe Ritter; Sam (officer); "street light" monsters
First Line: There's something new in town - but nobody's talking!
Synopsis: Two small town lawmen are imperiled by a quartet of man-eating creatures in the form of street light poles.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Art credit by Alberto Becattini.
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[untitled]

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First Line: The new Free Spirit. It looks like it's moving even when it's standing still.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for the "Free Spirit bicycle" from Sears Sports Center. Color ad on inside front cover.
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And Where It Stops, Nobody Knows...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, fantasy, horror, science fiction
Character(s): Rod Serling (host); Bret Paxton; security guard; Zodak (alchemist); Zodak's people; lobby guard; police officer
First Line: Introducing Bret Paxton, a cheap second-story thief trying to work his way up in the world...
Synopsis: On the run after killing a security guard, small-time thief Bret Paxton is intercepted by Zodak, an ancient alchemist who is traveling to the future. The encounter occurs in, of all places, a stalled office building elevator.
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In Content Item: FlagGespenster Geschichten #58 published ?
as Fahrstuhl in das Hexerreich [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Get These Dynamite Embroidered Cloth Patches That Tell It Like It Is!

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Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?; ? (photos)
Inker(s): ?; ? (photos)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
First Line: Each groovy patch measures 3”.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Various cartoon characters, comic characters, and counterculture symbols offered as embroidered cloth patches, from Gandalf Products Co. Between pages 4 and 5 of previous story.
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Golden Dreams

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): John Chapman (tinker); Charles (young apprentice); highwayman; serving maid
First Line: Two dreams, a disembodied voice and London Bridge -- and thereby hangs this true, hard-to-believe tale.
Synopsis: During the reign of Henry VII, a tinker dismisses the unusual dreams of his young apprentice, until they begin to come true.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: © 1972, Western Publishing Company, Inc. Not officially a Twilight Zone story.
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The Man Who Hated Mankind

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, fantasy, science fiction
Character(s): Matthew Meens; teeming crowds of humanity; coffee shop counterman; newsdealer; bus driver; taxi driver
First Line: Morning... Bringing the promise of another miserable day in the life of Matthew Meens...
Synopsis: Matthew Meens, an unhappy city-dweller who hates people, longs to escape from the oppressive throngs of mankind. He gets his wish, but not in the way he imagined it.
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In Content Item: FlagGespenster Geschichten #55 published ?
as Der Sprung ins Jenseits [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: © 1972, Western Publishing Company, Inc. Not officially a Twilight Zone story.
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Wow! 88 Posters only 65 cents

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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
First Line: All in full color all different
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Various psychedelic images and sixties counterculture symbols offered as mini-posters. Between pages 1 and 2 of previous story. Top half of page.
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Scary, Life Size Monster Ghost

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Inker(s): ?; ? (photos)
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
First Line: Obeys Your Commands!
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Ad for 7 foot polyethylene ghost for $1.00 from Melton Co., with free "Peeping Skeleton Hands" for each order. Between pages 1 and 2 of previous story. Lower half of page.
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The Terrific Ten

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Subject Matter
Character(s): The Pink Panther; Underdog; The Jetsons; The Houndcats; The Roman Holidays; The Barkleys; Jerry Mahoney, Adam; Evy
First Line: Saturday morning, and Adam and Evy are talking over what to do...
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Ad for NBC television's fall 1972 Saturday morning programming. Ad covers the two middle pages of the centerfold.
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Something New in Town

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, horror, science fiction
Character(s): Rod Serling (host); Dale Jenks; Police Lt. Joe Ritter; Sam (officer); "street light" monsters; telephone operator
First Line: Dale Jenks, salesman, is on a routine trip through familiar territory -- at least he thinks he is!
Synopsis: Man-eating creatures, who appear innocently in the form of metallic street light poles, invade a small town.
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In Content Item: FlagGespenster Geschichten #59 published ?
as Die Wahnsinnsnacht der Lichtdämonen [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Cover story. A unusually horrific story for a Gold Key comic.

Dale Jenks is drawn to look like William Conrad of the TV series "Cannon". Lt. Joe Ritter is drawn to look like John McIntire of the TV series "Wagon Train". ...Subconscious casting?
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Kids, Roach Designs Are Now Available as Iron-On Transfers!

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Credits
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Letterer(s): typeset
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First Line: Durable Washable 100% Colorfast
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Various sixties counterculture symbols offered as iron-on transfers from Gandalf Products Co. Between pages 3 and 4 of previous story.
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The Space Prize

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, drama, science fiction
Character(s): Rod Serling (host); Serge (cosmonaut); Andrei (cosmonaut); Russian missile base commander; Russian missile base communications specialist
First Line: It is a year not too far from this one! ...Two Russians are about to make man's ageless dream of interplanetary travel a reality!
Synopsis: Two cosmonauts, one self-serving and cynical and one idealistic and patriotic, blast off on the first manned flight to Mars, using a revolutionary Russian-developed propulsion system. The two come to blows when the former resolves to defect and turns the craft toward a landing in United States territory, hoping to reap a rich reward for the great engineering and technological prize he will deliver to the US government.
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In Content Item: FlagGespenster Geschichten #57 published ?
as Countdown für die Hölle [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
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Wind-Tunnel Tested!

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First Line: Tested for Sleek Style! Tested for Super Speed!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for Kenner's SSP racing model cars. Between pages 3 and 4 of previous story.
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100 pc. Toy Soldier Set $1.25

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First Line: Made of durable plastic, each with its own base.
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Disclose Notes: Ad for 100 plastic toy soldiers, packed in a footlocker-styled storage box, from Lucky Products, Inc. On final interior page of the comic.
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In Marksmanship Competition, a Boy Learns to Act Like a Man.

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First Line: Daisy’s 99 "Champion" B-B Gun teaches the same lessons.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for Daisy’s 99 "Champion" B-B Gun. Color and sepia tone ad on inside back cover. This ad has the exact same ad copy for Title and First Line as the Daisy ad for its Mark I B-B Gun -substituting "In Marksmanship Competition" for "On Safari", and changing the name of the gun to suit the ad.
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Kenner Chip Away

Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
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First Line: Gee, Billy - Did you really sculpt and paint all these statues?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for Kenner's Chip Away sculpture sets. Color ad on back cover.

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