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Issue: Sinister Tales #56
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Issues: #56 of 228 Issues (230 Printings)
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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: 15 (14 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: perfect bound
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Was It Really The Perfect Crime?

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Joe Maneely
Inker(s): Joe Maneely
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
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Pages: 1
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Oh, Perfect Crime!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Howard O'Donnell (signed)
Inker(s): Howard O'Donnell (signed)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: It's just floating in mid-air!
Synopsis: A sleezy booking agent uses a teleporter to get rich quick.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: K-498
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Witchcraft in the Wax Museum!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee; Steve Ditko (co-plot)
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko
Inker(s): Steve Ditko
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, superhero
Feature(s): Doctor Strange
Character(s): Dr. Strange [Stephen Strange]; Baron Mordo [Karl Amadeus Mordo]
First Line: It is well! I can detect no supernatural forces menacing earth at this time!
Synopsis: A phone call lures Strange away in his ectoplasmic form, so Baron Mordo can steal his body. Knowing that if the two are not reunited in 24 hours Strange is doomed, Mordo places a spell over the body so Strange cannot return to it. Using his amulet to retrace Mordo's steps, he finds Mordo, and his own body, in a wax museum. Tricking Mordo into fighting him in his ectoplasmic form, Strange turns the tables by trapping Mordo outside his body, and with Mordo held thus, is able to return to his own. Mordo warns Strange his unwillingness to finish him will be his undoing.
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Pages: 9
Job Number: X-665
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The Last Seconds of Ken Stewart

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Mac Pakula [as Mac L. Pakula] (signed)
Inker(s): Mac Pakula [as Mac L. Pakula] (signed)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Oliver Crane; Ken Stewart
First Line: Stewart! I've called you in here alone to save you spot of embarrassment!
Synopsis: As a man falls out a window he travels back in time a day and changes history.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: K-980
Disclose Notes: Wessler script per Nick Caputo from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
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The Man Who Didn't Belong

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Robert Q. Sale (signed)
Inker(s): Robert Q. Sale (signed)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Steve Donner; Jim; Rex Donner; Evelyn; Denise Wallace
First Line: Steve! Don't go down there!
Synopsis: Steve rescues Rex from inside the cyclotron but he has no memory of where he came from. Steve starts to resent how perfect Rex seems and how everyone likes him. Eventually Rex steps back into the cyclotron and vanishes. Steve tells his story to Denise then recognizes her as Rex's mother! He realizes Rex was his son from the future and that he can be proud of Rex's achievements.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: K-514
Disclose Notes: Wessler script per Nick Caputo from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
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Inside the Whirlpool

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ed Winiarski
Inker(s): Ed Winiarski
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Morgan Armstrong; Ezra Worth; Beth Armstrong; Professor Nordwick
First Line: Morgan! That black valise is missing from my desk!
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Pages: 4
Job Number: J-813
Disclose Notes: This story's plot is similar to Star Trek's "Mirror, Mirror" but the depicted events are used to make a thief feel shameful of his behavior.
Artist credits from Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 Series) #4.
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The Sea Serpent!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ross Andru
Inker(s): Mike Esposito
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Captain Adams
First Line: It's a dozen times longer than our liner, Captain!
Synopsis: A friendly sea serpent.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: K-33
Disclose Notes: Mike Esposito Inks credit from Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 Series) #4.
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Odd Skills

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Joe Maneely
Inker(s): Joe Maneely
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Jim Branner; Bill Toney
First Line: When a man who has been very competent suddenly becomes slipshod, there's usually a reason.
Synopsis: The manager of an auto parts shop develops a sudden tolerance for "human variation" in parts, possibly linked to otherworldly strangers in the shop at night.
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Pages: 2
Job Number: J-216
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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Eye Over the City

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bill Benulis
Inker(s): Bill Benulis
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: Monitoring headquarters to car thirty-two!
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Pages: 5
Job Number: G-664
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The Doll House!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Paul S. Newman
Penciller(s): Gene Colan (signed)
Inker(s): Gene Colan (signed)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
First Line: Nancy Carlton is twelve years old, and if anyone wants to find her, they can always be certain she's watching the handsome two-family house!
Synopsis: Now that she's twelve, a girl's parents think she is too old for her dollhouse, so they put it in the attic. Ten years later, when the woman is married and moved back into the house, she is surprised to find the dolls appear as if they have aged ten years.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: F-786
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The Payoff

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Gill ?
Penciller(s): Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio
Inker(s): Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio
Letterer(s): Jon D'Agostino
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Kid Montana
Character(s): Kid Montana; Joe Crane
First Line: That's him - - he looks mean, don't he?
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Pages: 5
Job Number: S-4853
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The Fury of Nick Foster!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Harry Lazarus (signed)
Inker(s): Harry Lazarus (signed)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Nick Foster; Spaulding
First Line: My lines! They're fouled on those rock formations!
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Pages: 4
Job Number: K-79
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The Crazy Car!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bill Everett (signed)
Inker(s): Bill Everett
Letterer(s): Bill Everett
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Stranger on the street (car engine inventor, death); Kurt Baxter (villain, death)
First Line: I don't believe it! You're trying to make a fool of me!
Synopsis: When a stranger approaches Karl Baxter on the street and invites him to take a test drive in his car: a car that runs on no fuel of any kind, Karl decides to kill the old man and figure out a way to duplicate the engine in the car so that he can make a fortune.....or so HE thinks!
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Pages: 5
Job Number: F-274
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Thelma!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Romita (signed)
Inker(s): John Romita (signed)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
First Line: Please, Leslie, take your doll from here!
Synopsis: A doll looks for lonely girls.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: G652
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The Missing Nail!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): George Roussos
Inker(s): George Roussos
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Dr. Warren Avedon; Mrs. Avedon; Peter Varley (blacksmith)
First Line: Good-bye, darling!
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Pages: 4
Job Number: L-805

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