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Issue: Astounding Stories #4
Publication Date: January 1966
 
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Publisher: FlagAlan Class
Indicia Publisher: Alan Class & Co. Ltd
On Sale Date: 1966
Volume:
Pages: 68
ISBN:
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Price: 12.0 pence GBQ 0-1-0
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Content Items: 14 (13 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Alan Class (reprint editor)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color cover; Black and White interior
Dimensions: 7.25" x 9.25"
Paper Stock: Glossy cover newsprint interior
Binding: Perfect Bound
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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The Contaminated Spaceman

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Steve Ditko
Steve Ditko
?
?
Subject Matter
science fiction
Reprinting
FlagSpace War #8 published December 1960
was The Contaminated Spaceman [Illustration on Cover, Front]
 
Miscellaneous
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The Contaminated Space Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Joe Gill ?
Steve Ditko (signed)
Steve Ditko (signed)
typeset
Subject Matter
science fiction
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
5
7117
I Was the Miracle Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Al Williamson ?
Marvin Stein ?
Artie Simek
Subject Matter
science fiction
Bruno Storme; Henry Stubbs
A brilliant but cruel businessman sets out to conquer an alien world. When he finds one he discovers that the inhabitants are far more mentally advanced then humans, possessing psychic powers. He is little more than an animal to them, and is displayed in a zoo.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
5
T-122
We Are the 3 Who Vanished!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Don Heck
Don Heck
Ray Holloway ?
Subject Matter
science fiction
Roger; Clark; Dave
Three scientists disappear without a trace, leaving a journal explaining that they were working on a time machine. The police never know what happened, because the time machine succeeded, but transformed the three men into three seventeenth-century scientists thinking about a time machine, unaware of their true identities.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
5
Don't Send Me...Out There!!!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Carl Burgos
Carl Burgos
?
Subject Matter
science fiction
A space pilot is terrified of taking another flight but his family is unsympathetic. Their attitude is out of surprise, since a robot has never before been afraid.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
4
T-321
The Bottomless Box

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
?
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
4
L-125
The Thing in the Bottle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Herb Familton (signed)
Herb Familton (signed)
?
Subject Matter
fantasy
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
4
L-271
The Metal Men

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Angelo Torres [as A. Torres]
Angelo Torres [as A. Torres]
?
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
4
J-673
Freight Car Prisoner

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
typeset
Subject Matter
adventure
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
Captain Midnight and the Flame Fiend

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure, aviation
Captain Midnight
Captain Midnight [Captain Jim "Red" Albright]
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
11
The Long Wait

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bernard Baily
Bernard Baily
?
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
3
J-691
I Discovered the Secret of the Flying Saucers!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Jack Kirby
Christopher Rule
Artie Simek
Subject Matter
science fiction
A man discovers that flying saucers are real, but are not actually ships, but alien beings able to travel through space on their own. They are often forced to crashland on Earth because of local radiation, and leave as quickly as possible.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
7
T-76
I Couldn't Stop the Runaway Comet!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Steve Ditko (signed)
Steve Ditko (signed)
Artie Simek
Subject Matter
science fiction
Victor Sage
In the year 2060 a vain elected official feels that the forces of science will be sufficient to deal with the menace of an impending comet but everything they try to either destroy or divert the comet fails. Finally all humanity, including the official, turn to prayer, and the comet is swept aside from its collision course with Earth.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
5
T-333
I Captured the Abominable Snowman!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Steve Ditko
Steve Ditko
Artie Simek
Subject Matter
horror
A man lies, cheats and steals to find the abominable snowman, and eventually discovers a lama who knows the secret of the snowman and is forced to summon it. He discovers that the snowman was a greedy man like him, cursed to wear a bestial form until another took his place. He is horrified as the snowman becomes human and he is transformed into a monster.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
6
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