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Issue: Secrets of the Unknown #150
Publication Date: January 1974
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Issues: #150 of 252 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagAlan Class
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Indicia Publisher: Alan Class & Co. Ltd
On Sale Date: 1974
Volume:
Pages: 52
ISBN:
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Price: £0.10 GBP
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (10 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 12249 from 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: squarebound
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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I Created the Colossus

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Editor(s): Stan Lee (original editor)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Colossus [later "It, the Living Colossus"]
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTales of Suspense #14 published February 1961
was I Created the Colossus [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Chapter One: I Created the Colossus!

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
Feature(s): It, the Living Colossus
Character(s): Colossus [later "It, the Living Colossus"] (introduction, origin); Ivan Petrovski; Boris Petrovski
First Line: This mind-staggering tale is a work of pure fiction!
Synopsis: A Russian dissident is forced by his loyal brother to build a giant statue glorifying the USSR. An alien crash lands and fuses with the statue for protection, animating it and defeating the whole military. The alien’s companions retrieve it and the sculptor claims that the statue was a judgement against dictatorship, frightening the regime.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-57
Disclose Notes: Possible Lee plot; Lieber script per Nick Caputo. George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index credits Stan Lee solo.
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Chapter Two: The Colossus Lives!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Dick Ayers
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): It, the Living Colossus
Character(s): Colossus; Ivan Petrovski; Boris Petrovski
First Line: Frightened by the gunfire and shouting, the alien-controlled Colossus went on...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-35
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Chapter Three: The Power of the Colossus!

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
Feature(s): It, the Living Colossus
Character(s): Colossus; Ivan Petrovski; Boris Petrovski
First Line: With the news of the impending hydrogen explosion, my brother saw...
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Pages: 6
Job Number: V-35
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I Am... Gorak!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko [as S. Ditko] (signed)
Inker(s): Steve Ditko [as S. Ditko] (signed)
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Gorak
First Line: All is silent!
Synopsis: A famous magician is enraged when his power is questioned, and he reveals that the whole world is an illusion, and only he is real. He even confronts the reader, but fades away as the story ends.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-45
Disclose Notes: The last panel shows the last two pages of the story in miniature.
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The Luna Lizards Had Me Trapped!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack Kirby ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Christopher Rule
Letterer(s): Ray Holloway ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: Human colonists on an alien world believe that they are being attacked by aliens, who, in fact, are trying to help them.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-387
Disclose Notes: Possible Kirby script per Nick Caputo, September 2014.
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The Tree

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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I Fought the Man Who Couldn't Be Killed!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler ?
Penciller(s): Sol Brodsky
Inker(s): Sol Brodsky
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Duke Jordan
Synopsis: A criminal escapes from prison after 10 years and robs a warehouse. He is found by a police officer with superhuman powers, and is surprised to learn that the police now only recruit robots.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: T-373
Disclose Notes: Set in 1969. Possible Wessler script per Nick Caputo from information in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 26, No. 4, April 2015. A Wessler inventory story was originally titled "The Man That Couldn't Die" Pencil credit and ink credit from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
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The Needle Swings!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Robert Sale (signed)
Inker(s): Robert Sale (signed)
Letterer(s): ?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: K-35
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I Hear It Howl in the Swamp!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko [as Ditko] (signed)
Inker(s): Steve Ditko [as Ditko] (signed)
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Charley
First Line: The unknown swamp holds many secrets...
Synopsis: A fishing guide encounters an alien monster in the swamp, and after initial disbelief, the military plans to kill it. When two larger aliens arrive to take the thing away, they realize that it was only a lost child.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: T-3??
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The Empty City

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bob Fujitani
Inker(s): Bob Fujitani
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A reporter stumbles upon aliens who are taking the place of humans. He tries to give the story to his editor, but his editor is one of...them.
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Pages: 6
Job Number: 9523

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