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Issue: Secrets of the Unknown #86
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Publisher: FlagAlan Class
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Indicia Publisher: Alan Class & Co. Ltd
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Pages: 68
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Price: 12.0 pence GBQ 0-1-0
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Content Items: 11 (9 stories, 1 cover)
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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: squarebound
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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adventure
Phantom [Julie Walker]; Dod Lamont
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The Adventures of the Girl Phantom

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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adventure, jungle, superhero
Phantom [Kit Walker]; Diana Palmer; Phantom [Julie Walker]; Dod Lamont
In a story frame, The Phantom tells Diana of how one of his ancestors became ill. Fearing that the Phantom's absence would threaten jungle peace, his twin sister Julie took his place very successfully, but at last crooks discovered that she was "only" a girl. They tracked her to the Deep Woods and made away with some of the Phantom treasure. She recovers the treasure, but the crooks lose their lives in a waterfall through rejecting her instructions. Her brother never realizes her ruse.
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A Thousand Years

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
horror, science fiction
Mr. Jordan; The Devil ?
A convict is offered freedom and a thousand years of life by a mysterious stranger in return for his name on a contract. He signs, and finds himself freed, and sealed in a rocket flying away from Earth. He feels neither hunger or thirst, so he will live a thousand years alone.
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Dead Planet!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
science fiction
Grokor; Mopox
Somewhere in the vast, endless universe...
A warrior race conquers world after world, but on one of them there seems to be life but their warrior can find none and dies of loneliness. The world was actually inhabited by sentient rocks.
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The Gypsy's Revenge!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
horror
Monk Morgan
Some there are, who are the victims of criminals...
An American criminal robs an old gypsy man, ignoring his pleas and curses. When he returns to the United States he sees a fortune teller at a circus, and finds the tent suspended in the void, with the fortune teller revealed as the old man.
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The Painting

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
horror
Simon Squeed
An art dealer who buys quality paintings at rock-bottom insulting prices from poverty stricken artists and then sells them for thousands attempts to steal a beautiful painting from a gypsy who refuses to sell it. The dealer has the gypsy arrested on a trumped up charge and burgles the man's wagon to remove the painting. When the gypsy is released because the man cannot be found he knows why and goes to the art dealer's apartment to retrieve his enchanted painting, finding the art dealer now a part of the picture.
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Crackpot Chemist

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Jasper McReedy; Stella McReedy; Linda McReedy; Tom Logan; Bob Webster
A dedicated chemist invents a formula to give people a healthy weight, and his daughter accidentally tests it on the neighbors.
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The Invisible Demon

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adventure, jungle, superhero
Phantom [Kit Walker]; Mabawa; Doctor K'Wago; Doctor Anton Krazz; Mytors
Several jungle folk, finally including the Phantom, are terrifyingly whisked into the sky by an unseen captor. Dr. Krazz is working with the Mytors, an underground race who want human samples for study in preparation for conquering the earth. The Phantom frees Mabawa and K'Wago, sending Krazz in their stead, and escapes, dynamiting Krazz's lair so as to end the Mytor threat.
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Behold Him! He Is the Martian!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
science fiction
"Danny Blake"; Agent X
Wanna see how it feels to be the first man to Mars?
A spy from Jupiter disguised as a human stows away on the first rocket from Earth to Mars. The pilot is a Martian spy disguised as Earthman Dan Blake whose mission is to radio back to Earth that a radiation belt with fatal effects makes attempting to reach Mars too dangerous so Earthmen will give up their attempts to reach Mars. The spy from Jupiter overcomes the Martian and radios Jupiter that travel to Mars is safe, and then radios the Martian's story back to Earth so as to discourage Earthlings from space flight.
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Narrated in the first person.
Miss Hepzibah Takes a Trip!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
science fiction
Johnny Williams; Miss Hepzibah
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Companion Comics in This Series

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House ad for the Alan Class range of comics. Back cover.

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