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Issue: Sinister Tales #217
Publication Date: January 1987
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Issues: #217 of 229 Issues (231 Printings)
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Publisher: FlagAlan Class
Brand: Class SeriesView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Alan Class & Co. Ltd
On Sale Date: 1987
Volume: none
Pages: 100
ISBN:
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Price: £0.55 GBP
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 20 (16 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 Perfect Crime

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, science fiction
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From Content Item: FlagSpellbound #31 published December 1956
was The Perfect Crime [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

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Oh, Perfect Crime!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Genres: occult, science fiction
Synopsis: A sleezy booking agent uses a teleporter to get rich quick.
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From Content Item: FlagSpellbound #31 published December 1956
was Oh, Perfect Crime! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K498
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Man in a Trance

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
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From Content Item: FlagSpellbound #31 published December 1956
was Man in a Trance [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K611
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The Man Who Didn't Belong!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
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From Content Item: FlagSpellbound #31 published December 1956
was The Man Who Didn't Belong [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K514
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Eye Over the City

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
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From Content Item: FlagSpellbound #24 published October 1955
was Eye Over the City [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: G664
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The Fury of Nick Foster!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
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From Content Item: FlagSpellbound #33 published April 1957
was The Fury of Nick Foster! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K79
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Thelma!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
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From Content Item: FlagSpellbound #24 published October 1955
was Thelma! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: G652
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The Missing Nail!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
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From Content Item: FlagSpellbound #34 published June 1957
was The Missing Nail! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 4
Job Number: L-805
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Just Imagine... No Subways!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
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From Content Item: FlagForbidden Worlds #143 published May 1967
was Just Imagine... No Subways! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 10
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He Floats Thru the Air

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
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From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #58 published May 1957
was He Floats Thru the Air [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-758
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Escape from Destiny

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): NoMan; Agents from O.G.R.E.; Electrobot; Henry Watkins
Synopsis: During a bank heist, customer Henry Watkins changes bodies with NoMan.
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From Content Item: FlagT.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents #13 published June 1967
was Escape from Destiny [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 10
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Sdrawkcab

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Oston Trams; Mrs. Trams; Laer Trams; Mike Ross
Synopsis: An extraordinary child excels at sports and school, but does it all backwards.
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From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #58 published May 1957
was Sdrawkcab [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 2
Job Number: K-18
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Message of Doom

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Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Feature(s): Secret Agent Mike Manly
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From Content Item: FlagFight the Enemy #1 published August 1966
was Message of Doom [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 10
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Forever Is a Long Long Time!

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Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Luther Kane; Dr. Jonathan Weems
Synopsis: A greedy businessman bullies a scientist into giving him a device that can give humans the 1,000-year lifespan of a giant redwood. He ignores the scientist's warnings and uses the ray on himself alone in his mansion, finding to his horror that the ray also renders its subject as immobile as a redwood.
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From Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #74 [U.S. Cover Price] published November 1961
was Forever Is a Long Long Time! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
Job Number: V-379
Disclose Notes: Stan Lee is tentatively credited as writer on the basis of his plot credit for another version of this story in issue Journey into Mystery #103 (April 1964).
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The Quick and the Changing

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Lightning; Mock-Man (Introduction); Professor (Death); Kitten; Dynamo; NoMan
Synopsis: Shapeshifter Mock-Man makes fools of the Agents.
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From Content Item: FlagT.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents #13 published June 1967
was The Quick and the Changing [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 10
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The Footprints

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: A boy looks for elves under a rock but his mother convinces him to stop believing in them and so loses out on a great fortune when the elves transmute the stones that the boy has left into gold nuggets.
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From Content Item: FlagMystic #44 published February 1956
was The Footprints [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 4
Job Number: H-493
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So Long, Fellas!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Synopsis: The ghost of Jack Lewis exposes a railroad scam with the help of the dog he left behind.
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From Content Item: FlagMidnight Mystery #5 published August 1961
was So Long, Fellas! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 12
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[untitled]

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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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