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Issue: Creepy Worlds #159
Publication Date: January 1975
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Issues: #159 of 250 Issues (251 Printings)
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Publisher: FlagAlan Class
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On Sale Date: 1975
Volume:
Pages: 52
ISBN:
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Price: £0.10 GBP
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 10 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Alan Class (reprint editor)
Disclose Notes: Issue is undated. Estimated date based on analysis of brands and cover prices in the series. Issue indexed from GCD Error Report 12284 by Ger Apeldoorn.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: colour cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: 7.25" x 9.25"
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: perfectbound
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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I Dared to Explore the Unknown Emptiness!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee ?
Penciller(s): Don Heck (signed)
Inker(s): Don Heck (signed)
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
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From Content Item: FlagTales of Suspense #1 published January 1959
was I Dared to Explore the Unknown Emptiness! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1
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I Dared Explore the Unknown Emptiness!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Don Heck
Inker(s): Don Heck
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Dr. Jonathan Marteens (behind the scenes); Col. Frank Stevens
First Line: The year was 2478... Dr. Jonathan Marteens had just made public his...
Synopsis: In the 25th-century, humans use a new cobalt fuel in their search for a colony world to relieve overpopulation. They find that humans can only flourish on Earth, and should appreciate it more.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-95
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person.
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The Strangers from Space!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Al Williamson (signed)
Inker(s): Al Williamson (signed)
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): General Krenkle; Lieutenant Morrow
First Line: In the year 2000, space had been conquered!
Synopsis: In the future an alien ship arrives and lands at the world capital. The alien’s human form calms hostility and allows peaceful contact. The alien really projected an image to pacify bigotry.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: T-100
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The Day I Left My Body!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Buscema
Inker(s): John Buscema
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Wells; Martin Shaw; Ellen Shaw
First Line: The law had called me a menace to society and locked me away forever!
Synopsis: A prisoner accidentally gains a psychic hold on a lawyer. He forces the lawyer to work constantly on his appeal, but fatigue hurts the lawyer’s oratory and the murderer is sentenced to death.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: M-567
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person.
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The Thing in Human Form!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Penciller(s): Don Heck
Inker(s): Don Heck
Letterer(s): Ray Holloway ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Ogor; 'John Cummings' [Zeno]
Synopsis: A Martian is sent to Earth to kidnap a human scientist who has invented a weapon that Mars wants to use against Jupiter. The Martian is beaten by the scientist, who turns out to be a Jovian agent setting a trap to capture a live Martian.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: [T-???]
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the third person.
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No Place to Hide

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Paul Reinman
Inker(s): Paul Reinman
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): David Reynolds; Joshua Swift
Synopsis: A judge sentences a man to ninety days in the workhouse for vagrancy and finds himself back in time 300 years. He is pulled off the street because of his strange clothes and the judge thinks his family photograph and cigar lighter are examples of black magic. He escapes and finds himself back in the present. He has second thoughts about the sentence he has passed and releases the man he had charged the previous day.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: G-850
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The Performer

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
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Pages: 2
Job Number: J-929
Disclose Notes: Story has one spot illustration.
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The Fishman

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Everett ?
Penciller(s): Bill Everett (signed)
Inker(s): Bill Everett (signed)
Letterer(s): Bill Everett
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Peter Maher; Elsa; Dr. Bondy
Synopsis: Peter Maher undergoes an operation that gives him gills so he can be with the water-breathing Elsa. Unfortunately, Elsa has the opposite surgery performed on her so she can be with the air-breathing Peter.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: H-290
Disclose Notes: The basic premise of this story comes from O. Henry's short story "The Gift of the Magi" (1905).
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I Foiled an Enemy Invasion!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Davis (signed)
Inker(s): Jack Davis (signed)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Mark Briton
First Line: It was too incredible to believe!!
Synopsis: Mysterious billboards appear, each bearing a picture of an alien soldier. A newspaperman realizes just in time that the billboards are an attempt by a two-dimensional alien race to hide an invasion.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: T-82
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I Dared Enter the Forbidden World!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Penciller(s): Don Heck
Inker(s): Don Heck
Letterer(s): Ray Holloway ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Derek; John; Monga; Uxmal; Antogg
First Line: Africa! Land of mystery--of undreamed-of secrets!
Synopsis: A white game hunter finds the legendary elephant's graveyard, hoping to make a fortune in ivory. He discovers that elephants were introduced to Earth by Martians, who use the graveyard as a gathering point for the ivory, and won't let him leave.
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Pages: 6
Job Number: T-952

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