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Issue: Uncanny Tales #144
Publication Date: January 1980
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Issues: #144 of 190 Issues (192 Printings)
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Publisher: FlagAlan Class
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Indicia Publisher: Alan Class & Co. Ltd
On Sale Date: 1980
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Pages: 52
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Price: £0.20 GBP
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Content Items: 9 (8 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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The Stray!

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Genres: science fiction
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From Content Item: FlagForbidden Worlds #78 published May 1959
was The Stray! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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The Stray!

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Genres: science fiction
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Queen of Uranus

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Gwendolyn Purdy; Marilyn; James T. Cannon (Principal); Johnny; Kryptos
First Line: Poor Gwendolyn Purdy! Her pupils laughed at her---her principal criticized her---and no one else seemed to know she existed!
Synopsis: Gwendolyn Purdy is mocked by her pupils and criticized by her principal. Gwendolyn shows the pupils her tektite collection but then loses her temper which is seen by Cannon. Later, back home the tektite collection starts glowing. Two aliens tell her that their leader, Kryptos, wants to meet her. Kryptos thinks earth women are ugly but wants to take Gwendolyn back to Uranus. Gwendolyn goes home to think about this and decides to improve her appearance. When Kryptos meets her again he is horrified and asks to be released from his request. Later Cannon asks Gwendolyn out to a dance.
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Return of a Hero!

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Genres: fantasy, horror, war
Character(s): Anton; Franz [Louis Kossuth]; Josef
First Line: Wait! I---I'm getting some sort of strange message---from the air itself!
Synopsis: In a cellar in 1956 Budapest, a group talk of rising up against the Russians but they need another Louis Kossuth. The Russians start the revolution by firing on a group of protesting workers. A protestor lies wounded in front of a tank. A man carries him to safety and then leads a group to steal more weapons. He tells them to call him Franz, leads them in more daring raids and exposes a Russian agent amongst them. The Russians bring more arms and Franz tells the group to flee and then disappears. The group realises that Franz looks just like Louis Kossuth without a beard and moustache.
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Lajos Kossuth de Udvard et Kossuthfalva (19 September 1802 – 20 March 1894) was a Hungarian nobleman, lawyer, journalist, politician, statesman and Governor-President of the Kingdom of Hungary during the revolution of 1848–49.
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The Stranger

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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Martin J. Colby; George; Charlie; Tom; Merlin
First Line: From the moment the stranger arrived, things began to happen -- strange incidents which at first whetted curiosity, then brought wonderment -- and finally FEAR!
Synopsis: A stranger rents a cottage where he uses alchemy to bring creatures from another world who offer to share great wonders, but the townsfolk cart the stranger away, having discovered he is Martin J. Colby, escaped mental patient.
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The House of Tomorrow!

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Character(s): Bob Carter; Mr. Mason; Thurka; Vanda
Synopsis: Saturnian furniture is mistaken for Bob Carter's designs, but the futuristic furniture gets better reviews than his traditional work.
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Air Conditioned

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The Mirror of Mowgaladi!

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Genres: fantasy
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The Creature from Krango

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