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Issue: Creepy Worlds #219
Publication Date: January 1984
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Issues: #219 of 250 Issues (251 Printings)
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Publisher: FlagAlan Class
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On Sale Date: 1984
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Pages: ?
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Price: £0.25 GBP
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Content Items: 15 (14 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Alan Class (reprint editor)
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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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The Wrong Choice!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): John Severin
Inker(s): John Severin
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): Stan Lee (original editor)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Unknown Worlds #56 published April 1957
was The Wrong Choice! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Your Life for Mine!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Marvin Stein
Inker(s): Marvin Stein
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Paul Carew; Carew's wife
First Line: Listen to me! All of you! I can't stop now!
Synopsis: A scientist builds a time travel device that requires someone from the present return to the past if one from the past is brought forward. He switches places with an alchemist just as a mob is coming for him.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: From Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1950 series) #56 (April 1957)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-552
Disclose Notes: Job number and art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.
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The Voice in the Night!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Frank Bolle [as FWB] (signed)
Inker(s): Frank Bolle [as FWB] (signed)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Bill Sanders; Sgt. Fritz Bruner; Ted
First Line: So, American, you are still at it! What a waste of time!
Synopsis: In 1944 a captured US soldier hates the German sergeant who goads him into attempting an escape after he finishes carving a wooden doll for his daughter. During the attempt, the man hears a voice coming from the doll giving instructions on how to elude the enemy patrols, and many years later sees the German sergeant giving a ventriloquist performance. He realizes the sergeant had aided him in gaining his freedom.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: From Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1950 series) #56 (April 1957)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-373
Disclose Notes: Job number and art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010. Wessler script per biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
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The Wrong Choice!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Werner Roth
Inker(s): Werner Roth
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Captain Josef Tovar
First Line: The charcoal night, a curtain of rain and the choppy sea are a hiding place for an old barnacled vessel and it's tiny, fugitive crew!
Synopsis: A pirate captain finds himself in Atlantis and granted one wish. He wishes to be seven feet tall and strong as a bull so he can strong arm the Atlanteans but they are all much bigger and more powerful than that.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: From Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1950 series) #56 (April 1957)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-495
Disclose Notes: Job number and art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010. Features the legendary city of Atlantis, first described in Timaeus and Critias by Plato (360 BC).
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Lost in the Labyrinth

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): George Roussos (signed)
Inker(s): George Roussos (signed)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Dirk Kenyard; Rampur
First Line: So near and still so far!
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: From Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #44 (August 1956)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: J-980
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Don't Let Them Catch Me!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Paul Hodge (signed)
Inker(s): Paul Hodge (signed)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Tom Haddon; Lester Haddon; Andrea Gilbey; Jim Gilbey
First Line: I told you to stay out of this room till I call you, Tom! What are you snoopin' around for!
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: From Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #44 (August 1956)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: J-973
Disclose Notes: Wessler credit per biblio info published in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 26, No. 4, April 2015.
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The Unsuspected!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Herb Familton (signed)
Inker(s): Herb Familton (signed)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Mace; Paulson
First Line: Dig! Dig! Six months of breaking my back...and they don't even bother to talk to me!
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Reprint Notes: From Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #44 (August 1956)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K-52
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Danger in the Desert!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bob McCarty
Inker(s): Bob McCarty
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Henri Duval; Otto
First Line: The recruits, Otto! A stroll in the sun and they are ready to fall!
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: From Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #44 (August 1956)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: J-928
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Under His Hat!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ed Winiarski
Inker(s): Ed Winiarski
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Mr. Gregor
First Line: Mr. Gregor is here! He'll help us!
Synopsis: An angel who does charitable works refuses to remove his hat until a dying old woman asks him to doff his hat out of respect for a lady. He does so, but only after everyone else has left the room, as he does not want to reveal his halo.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: From Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1950 series) #39 (November 1955)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: G-783
Disclose Notes: Art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.
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In Your Hat

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Mort Lawrence
Inker(s): Mort Lawrence
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): The Great Sandini; Captain Bill Higgins
First Line: They're an unfriendly-looking lot, and I'm in trouble, unless I show them who's boss!
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: From Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1950 series) #40 (December 1955)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: H-21
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While the Town Sleeps!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Kurt Schaffenberger
Inker(s): Kurt Schaffenberger
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
First Line: Could anything be more peaceful than this Dutch countryside at night?
Synopsis: The statue of the Dutch boy plugs the hole in the dike with his finger.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: From Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #41 (May 1956)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: J-56
Disclose Notes: Inspired by the story of the "Hero of Haarlem," the little Dutch boy with his finger in the dike, first told in "Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates" by Mary Mapes Dodge (1865).
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Falling Star!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Kurt Schaffenberger
Inker(s): Kurt Schaffenberger
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Jklywr Ngm (alien)
First Line: In the Vermont hills one night a falling star plummeted toward the earth!
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: From Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1950 series) #46 (June 1956)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: J-398
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No Answer

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Vinny
Synopsis: Vinny kills a man, then gets a phone call through a disconnected phone.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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No Answer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Forte (signed)
Inker(s): John Forte (signed)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): John Burdock; Mr. Petty; Bakor (alien)
First Line: John Burdock was a visionary, a man with his eye on the future!
Synopsis: A man thinks he is a failure because the machine he created to contact other worlds gets no response and his boss fires him. Unknown to him, his signal was detected by a far off planet, and because of him, they redirect their atomic weapons at another target for testing.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: From Astonishing (Marvel, 1951 series) #56 (December 1956)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: K-662
Disclose Notes: Job Number information from www.atlastales.com.
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Foolproof!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Mike Sekowsky
Inker(s): Carl Burgos ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Dutch Gunther; Professor Damson; Slim; Willy
First Line: The amazing machine told Dutch Gunther the odds were so great in his favour, that he just couldn't lose!
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: From Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #44 (August 1956)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: K-265
Disclose Notes: Wessler script per biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol 28, No 5, May 2017. Possible Burgos inks per Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. via atlastales.com. Previous indexer credited Mike Sekowsky.

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