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Issue: Sinister Tales #84
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Issues: #84 of 228 Issues (230 Printings)
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Publisher: FlagAlan Class
Brand: AC Approved ComicView Brand Images
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: 11 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Alan Class (reprint editor)
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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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1 Content Item from another Issue reprinted as/in this Issue:
FlagTales of Suspense #39 [U.S. Cover Price] published March 1963 was Iron Man Is Born! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): John Rosenberger
Inker(s): John Rosenberger
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Fly
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAdventures of the Fly #24 [12ยข] published February 1963
was The Shock of the Fly World! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1
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The Shock of the Fly World

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Robert Bernstein
Penciller(s): John Rosenberger
Inker(s): John Rosenberger
Letterer(s): John Duffy ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Fly
Character(s): Fly [Thomas Troy]; Turan
Synopsis: Turan shows Thomas how the Fly world deals with its antisocial members, with the idea that Earth will do likewise in the future.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
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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The Three Dead Flies!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jimmy Infantino
Inker(s): Jimmy Infantino
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Chet Harron; John Eager; Ralph Eager
Synopsis: When a ruthless man cheats a scientist out of his business, many years later his son manages to get the company back by posing as his dead father.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: M-190
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The Little Green Man!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko
Inker(s): Steve Ditko
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Jasper Jenks
Synopsis: An unscrupulous pilot tricks an alien into refitting his plane, but throws the creature out instead of rewarding it. He only then discovers that the alien had not yet explained how to land with the new engine.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: [X-389 ?]
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The Mystery of the Giant Fly

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Robert Bernstein
Penciller(s): John Rosenberger
Inker(s): John Rosenberger
Letterer(s): John Duffy ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Fly
Character(s): Professor Cox; Fly [Thomas Troy]; Fly Girl [Kim Brand]
Synopsis: Capital City's gangsters hire Prof. Cox to eliminate the Fly and Fly Girl.
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Pages: 8
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The Enemy!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Manny Stallman
Inker(s): Manny Stallman
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Lightning hatches a therapod egg in a cave. Once grown, the hatchling ventures forth and loses its first fight to a movie crew's robot. It flees back to its cave.
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Pages: 3
Job Number: M-251
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Marked Money

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Gill ?
Penciller(s): Charles Nicholas
Inker(s): Dick Giordano
Letterer(s): Jon D'Agostino
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Wild Bill Hickok and Jingles
Character(s): Jingles; Wild Bill Hickock; Hecker
Synopsis: Marshall Hickock figures the bank was robbed by its own president.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: S-969
Disclose Notes: Giordano inks per Nick Caputo, September 2015. Previous indexer credited Vince Alascia.
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True or False

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Steve Skeates
Penciller(s): John Giunta
Inker(s): John Giunta
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Undersea Agent
Character(s): Undersea Agent [Lt. Davey Jones]; Professor Weston
Synopsis: An unknown enemy sends an android duplicate of Lt. Jones to Atlantis.
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Pages: 7
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Iron Man Is Born!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
Penciller(s): Don Heck
Inker(s): Don Heck
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Iron Man
Character(s): Iron Man [Tony Stark] (introduction, origin); Wong-Chu (villain, introduction); Professor Yinsen (introduction, death)
Synopsis: Playboy industrialist and weapons designer Tony Stark is injured in Vietnam and captured by communists. While pretending to build a weapon for his captors he builds a suit of battle armor to keep his injured heart beating and uses it to escape and beat the communist commander.
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Pages: 13
Job Number: X-51
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The Insect Gang

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Robert Bernstein
Penciller(s): John Rosenberger
Inker(s): John Rosenberger
Letterer(s): John Duffy ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Fly Girl
Character(s): Ant ["Chimp" Frame]; Joe; Locust [Dr. Wicks]; Grasshopper; Fly Girl [Kim Brand]; Cricket-head; Firefly; Turan
Synopsis: Dr. Wicks develops insect-based powers and costumes for a gang to overcome Fly Girl.
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Pages: 5
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Hiding Place!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Al Eadeh
Inker(s): Al Eadeh
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Herb Baldwin; Richard Baldwin; Larry Stoner; Dave Morgan; Steve Lowry
Synopsis: Richard uses his cousin's invention to locate 500 thousand dollars hidden in Brazil.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: M-240

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