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Issue: Secrets of the Unknown #142
Publication Date: January 1973
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Issues: #142 of 252 Issues (255 Printings)
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Publisher: FlagAlan Class
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Indicia Publisher: Alan Class & Co. Ltd
On Sale Date: 1973
Volume:
Pages: 52
ISBN:
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Price: £0.08 GBP
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Content Items: 16 (12 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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Piece of Rope!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Letterer(s): typeset
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From Content Item: FlagAstonishing #63 published August 1957
was Piece of Rope! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1
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The Big Three

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Hallmark Minting Service
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for official Marvel solid-bronze collectors medallion-coins.
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A Piece of Rope!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Burt Kempen; Ed Mason
First Line: Good hunting! But take care!
Synopsis: A mountain climber is bothered by guilt when he cuts a rope securing him to his partner who fell, so he goes back to retrieve the body, only to find that his partner survived the fall. At this time, the rope that he been unable to remove from himself, drops off.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: M-26
Disclose Notes: Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas-Timely discussion group.
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The Terrible Toy!

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Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: People fear aliens who have appeared in the skies, but when a father seeks a lost toy for a beloved son, the humans realize that their shared bonds of compassion unite them and the aliens.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: M-124
Disclose Notes: Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas-Timely discussion group.
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The Secret Beyond Belief!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): John; Dr. Dane Morris; Corseau (composer)
First Line: Even now I can scarcely believe it!
Synopsis: A scientist invents a rejuvenation process and a fellow scientist wants him to share it with the world, but the man refuses because the creative people who have gone through the process are no longer productive as they have all the time in the world to perfect their craft but never finish anything.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: M-135
Disclose Notes: Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas-Timely discussion group.
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A Tender Tale of Love

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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Mr. Barnett; Mrs. Fenley
Synopsis: A man looking to marry money rents a room in a house where all the occupants are ghosts. When he falls for one of the tenants and she tells him he has a rival, he tries to murder the rival, but fails because he's already dead.
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Job Number: M-89
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The Room That Wasn't There

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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Chuck Chandler
First Line: Each man can fashion his own destiny...
Synopsis: A man sees a reflection of himself in a mirror thirty years hence occupying a dingy room and resolves to change his destiny through acquiring money by crime. He is arrested and sentenced to life in jail where he realizes the mirror had displayed to him his jail cell.
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Job Number: M-91
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The Man Who Jumped

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Albert Morton
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Pages: 6
Job Number: B-263
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Blackout!

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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Sam
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Pages: 4
Job Number: J-423
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The Perilous Paintings

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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Arthur Kent
First Line: The paints were forbidden relics of an artist long since gone!
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Pages: 4
Job Number: J-373
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I Flew in a Flying Saucer!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): John Farrar
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Pages: 4
Job Number: J-363
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The Fatal Words!

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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Henry Ramsey
First Line: Henry Ramsey talked to his dog and cat!
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Pages: 3
Job Number: L-638
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The Specimen!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Norman
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Pages: 4
Job Number: J-288
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He Stalks in the Streets

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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Henry Wadsworth
Synopsis: An actress fools a jilted admirer into believing that she never stopped loving him so that he does not have her murdered.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: K-992
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The Big Three

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Hallmark Minting Service
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for official Marvel solid-bronze collectors medallion-coins.
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Companion Comics in This Series

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Disclose Notes: House ad for the Alan Class range of comics. Back cover.

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