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Issue: Uncanny Tales #74
Publication Date: January 1971
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Issues: #74 of 190 Issues (192 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagAlan Class
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Alan Class & Co. Ltd
On Sale Date: 1971
Volume:
Pages: 52
ISBN:
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Price: £0.05 GBP
12.0 pence GBQ 0-1-0
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 6 (4 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Issue is undated. Estimated date based on presence of two prices (pre and post decimal currency). Switchover happened in 1971.
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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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The Madness of Mysterio!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ? (recoloured)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Spider-Man; Mysterio
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From Content Item: FlagThe Amazing Spider-Man #66 published November 1968
was The Madness of Mysterio! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1
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The Madness of Mysterio!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Mysterio [Quentin Beck]; Anna May Watson; Aunt May Parker; Betty Brant; Captain George Stacy; Gwen Stacy; Harry Osborn; J. Jonah Jameson; Ned Leeds; Robbie Robertson; Green Goblin [Norman Osborn] (cameo)
First Line: The stage is set--the plan is completed--the time has come!
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Pages: 20
Disclose Notes: Indicia at the bottom of the first page lists:
Published by Alan Class & Co. Ltd., 54 Lymington Road Hampstead, N.W.6
(copyright), and printed in England by Jenson Book Co. Ltd., Oadby, Leics.
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To Squash a Spider!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; May Parker; Anna Watson; Gwen Stacy; George Stacy; J. Jonah Jameson; Robbie Robertson; Betty Brant; Ned Leeds; Randy Robertson; Mysterio [Quentin Beck]
First Line: Trapped by the madly murderous Mysterio, our hapless web-spinner suddenly regains consciousness, only to find that he has become--six inches tall!
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Pages: 20
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Who or What Was...the Bootblack?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Simon Sledge
Synopsis: Simon Sledge is a cruel and heartless businessman who delights in making others suffer. On the way to the biggest deal of his life, one that will eliminate the last of his competition, he stops for a shoeshine. Suddenly his feet are moving away from his destination, taking him far from the deal that will give him a monopoly in his field. He glances back at the bootblack who is revealed as an angel, and who says that when human laws can’t touch someone like Sledge, there are always higher laws.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: V-264
Disclose Notes: George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index credits Stan Lee with script. Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
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The TV Fan!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Laura Wentworth; Pete Sloan
Synopsis: A lazy cad tricks a rich girl into marrying him so that he can watch TV all day. His wife sees her mistake and reveals that she’s a witch, turning him into a fan on the television: a ‘tv fan’.
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Pages: 5
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Companion Comics in this Series

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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First Line: Available Monthly
Synopsis: Advertisement for Suspense, Sinister Tales, Creepy Worlds, Secrets of the Unknown, Outer Space, and Tales of the Underworld.
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Pages: 1

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