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Issue: Sinister Tales #81
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Issues: #81 of 229 Issues (231 Printings)
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Publisher: FlagAlan Class
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Indicia Publisher: Alan Class & Co. Ltd
On Sale Date: (not set)
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Pages: 68
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Price: 12.0 pence GBQ 0-1-0
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Content Items: 20 (17 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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The Woman Who Played with Dolls!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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From Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #48 published August 1957
was The Woman Who Played with Dolls! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1
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Tricky!

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Synopsis: Showing how to perform a 'Club Sandwich' card trick.
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Pages: 1
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The Woman Who Played with Dolls

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Elsa Beatty
Synopsis: A wealthy woman shrinks people who try to rob her and plays with them in a doll house.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-127
Disclose Notes: Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Wessler script per Nick Caputo from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
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Behind the Mask!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Bruce Chalmers
Synopsis: A man in his sixties pays a doctor ten thousand dollars for a mask that will allow him to look younger in order to court a woman in her twenties, but the end of the story reveals that she is also an older person who has paid for such a mask.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: M-126
Disclose Notes: Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Wessler script per Nick Caputo from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
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Behind the Iron Gate!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Chuck Morgan
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Pages: 3
Job Number: L-1000
Disclose Notes: Letters: Letterese credited by Haydn.
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I Follow Him!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A mind reader encounters a disguised alien who comes from a planet rich with gold and diamonds and he decides to blackmail treasure out of him or he'll expose him, however, the aliens easily apprehend him because they all read minds.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: K-750
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The Lifeless One!

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Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: An ugly man pours his heart out to a store mannequin who turns out to be an alien spy. She takes him to her world and they live happily ever after.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: K-752
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Trapped in the Burning Sands

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: crime, fantasy
Character(s): Hans Loring
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Pages: 4
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The Man in the Satellite

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Jerry Owens
Synopsis: A convict who hides in a satellite stays in orbit for fifty years.
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Pages: 3
Job Number: K-703
Disclose Notes: Sequel to K-534 "They'll Never Find Me" in the previous issue; note in splash reads in part, "Those of you who read a story called 'They'll Never Find Me!', in the previous issue of Uncanny Tales, may recall ... Here follows a sequel to that strange story!" (Note by Tom Lammers)
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What Waits in the Dungeon?

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Genres: crime, fantasy
Character(s): Signor Fillipo
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Pages: 4
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The New Pupil

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Colin
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Pages: 2
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Footprints to Nowhere!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Lewis
Synopsis: A man jealous that he won't get the credit for discovering the missing link takes some dynamite to blow it up, but all he succeeds in doing is releasing it and it attacks him.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: K-807
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The Disappearing Man!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Farrell; Ellis; Clay
Synopsis: A scientist who disappeared years ago returns, explaining that he is now king of an alternate dimension. His greedy friend hopes to take over the dimension for himself, but ends up imprisoned indefinitely.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: M-310
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The Eyes That Never Close!

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Jeff Corley; Leo Hutten
Synopsis: A prisoner tries to escape using a mystic idol, but it will only take the evil on doomed journeys through time, and he is trapped in Hiroshima just before the bomb falls.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: M-412
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He Never Came Out!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: horror
Character(s): Joe Morse; Pete Atkins; Mr. Cartel
Synopsis: A wax museum owner claims that his statues are criminals petrified by the head of Medusa. When a thief ignores this warning and tries to rob him, the museum gains a new statue.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: M-424
Disclose Notes: Oleck script per Martin O'Hearn: http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2021/06/strange-tales-by-jack-oleck.html
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The Spectre

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Burt Malone; Mysto the Mystic
Synopsis: A race car driver refuses to drive after he sees a ghost. His manager thinks it is a hallucination, and pays a mystic to convince him it is safe, but the reappearance of the ghost after the mystic’s crystal breaks suggests that it is real.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: M-347
Disclose Notes: Giordano art per Dr. Michael J. Vassallo. Previous indexer credited Doug Wildey.
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Uncork It... If You Dare!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Harold Simpson; Flora Simpson
Synopsis: A meek man is left a bottle of gas that changes personalities. Instead of using it to become more daring, he uses it on UN diplomats. The gas has unexpected effects, but in the end he uses all of it to avert war, though no one knows the sacrifice he made.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: M-414
Disclose Notes: Letters: Probably not [Artie] Simek, if one compares his late 1950s work across the Marvel line.
Ben Oda seems to be a better guess.
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What Lurks in the Mountain?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: The Communists are cruel masters in a recently invaded land!
Synopsis: A communist general demands that the lama tell him of the alien space ship that has landed for repairs. At first the lama refuses to allow the aliens to be conquered by the communists, but he relents after the general threatens to execute all the peasants. The soldiers march off to the mountain the lama has indicated, but after a fruitless search they conclude the lama must have been lying. Suddenly, the mountain begins to shake violently and the soldiers realize too late as it blasts off that the mountain was the space ship.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: V-157
Disclose Notes: This story is most likely meant to be set in Tibet. One of the aliens imagined by soldiers looks much like the later Ditko creation the Mindless Ones. Alterations in art are apparent on page two, panels 1, 3 and 5 (the villain was originally holding a gun or a whip); and page 3, panel 1, where the entire panel is redrawn, possibly by Sol Brodsky. Changes were likely made at the request of the Comics Code Authority. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
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The Man Who Couldn't Breathe!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Roy Grant
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Pages: 4
Job Number: H-140
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Companion Comics in this Series

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1

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