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Issue: Classics Illustrated #40 - O
Publication Date: August 1947
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Issues: #40 - O of 323 Issues (607 Printings)
Title: Mysteries
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagGilberton
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Indicia Publisher: Gilberton Company Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
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Pages: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 CAD
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Content Items: 9 (3 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: cover stock varies from regular glossy to stiff glossy; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Mysteries

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Synopsis: Full-page, line-drawn illustration depicts scenes from the three tales contained in the issue.
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The Pit and the Pendulum

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Character(s): Narrator; Members of the Spanish Inquisition; Torturers; Guards; General La Salle
Synopsis: A victim of the Spanish Inquisition is tortured in a dark room with a razor-sharp pendulum, a water-filled pit, rats, and other devices until liberated when Toledo falls to the French.
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The Adventure of Hans Pfall

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Character(s): Hans Pfall; Gretell Pfall (wife of Hans); Professor Rubadub; Mynherr Underduk (Mayor of Rotterdam); Pfall's Three Creditors; People of Rotterdam; Moon People
Synopsis: Pfall kills his three creditors with an explosion then travels to the moon in a balloon of his own design to become King of the Moon People.
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The Fall of the House of Usher

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Character(s): Narrator; Roderick Usher; Madeline Usher; Physician; Butler; Ethelred (phantom)
Synopsis: Roderick Usher buries his catatonic twin sister Madeline then dies from fear and horror when she rises from her grave. The crumbling Usher mansion collapses upon them.
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Edgar Allan Poe

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Genres: biography
Synopsis: Brief biographical sketch of Edgar Allan Poe. Two spot illustrations depict images from his works and life.
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Excerpt from a Letter by Washington

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Synopsis: Excerpt from a letter by George Washington dated 1790 about bigotry, persecution, and good citizenship. Illustrations depict Washington and American patriotic icons such as the Old North Church and Paul Revere.
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Robert Fulton, Inventor of the Steamboat

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Genres: biography
Feature(s): Pioneers of Science
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Ludwig von Beethoven

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Genres: biography
Feature(s): Great Lives
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Cherokee Nation

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Feature(s): American Indians
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