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Issue: Astounding Stories #171
Publication Date: January 1984
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Issues: #171 of 195 Issues
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Publisher: FlagAlan Class
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On Sale Date: 1984
Volume:
Pages: 52
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Price: £0.25 GBP
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Content Items: 7 (6 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 Case of the Young Old Men!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Kurt Schaffenberger
Inker(s): Kurt Schaffenberger
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Magicman
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From Content Item: FlagForbidden Worlds #127 published May 1965
was The Case of the Young Old Men! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Case of the Young Old Men!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Richard Hughes [as Zev Zimmer]
Penciller(s): Pete Costanza
Inker(s): Pete Costanza
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Magicman
Character(s): Magicman [Tom Cargill]; Sgt. Kilkenny; Col. Blimpsworthy; Dr. Moeller
Synopsis: Sergeant Kilkenny is again suspected of being Magicman and is sent to solve a string of murders. The real Magicman tags along to help out.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 16
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The Man in the Beehive!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby [as Kirby] (signed)
Inker(s): Dick Ayers [as Ayers] (signed)
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Lucius Farnsworth; Eric
First Line: There must be a way out!
Synopsis: An eccentric beekeeper reveals to a thief that he is a mutant with special powers. He shrinks the thief and frightens him with the attacks of the bees that are now larger than he is, but leaves him wondering if any of it was real.
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Pages: 7
Job Number: V-765
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The Hidden Valley!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Lou Morales (signed)
Inker(s): Lou Morales (signed)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A thousand-year old tribe builds a 'thoughtscope' in order to contact Mars, but the Martians use the device to place them into suspended animation. An explorer breaks the device, freeing them.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: J-957
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The Journey

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Carl Burgos
Inker(s): Carl Burgos
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Harry
Synopsis: A man finds out that he keeps turning blue because he is really an alien from a planet of blue people.
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Pages: 2
Job Number: F-890
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Sazzik the Sorcerer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby [as Kirby] (signed)
Inker(s): Dick Ayers [as Ayers] (signed)
Letterer(s): Joe Letterese
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Boris Grumm; Sazzik
First Line: You will find unscrupulous men in every large city!
Synopsis: A TV producer of violent sensationalist drama finds a book on a sorcerer that he thinks will bring in a big profit televised. He makes the mistake of reading the printed avocation spell out loud and the spirit of the long dead mage appears and casts him into limbo.
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Pages: 6
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Fin Fang Foom!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Letterer(s): Ray Holloway ?; Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Fin Fang Foom (introduction); Chan Liuchow; Chung Liuchow
Synopsis: A young historian from Taiwan crosses to the mainland to awake the dragon Fin Fang Foom and foil a communist invasion. He lures the dragon to the coast to wreck the invasion fleet, and then lures it back to its layer before restoring its mystical slumber.
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Pages: 13
Job Number: V-318

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