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Issue: Monsters on the Prowl #13
Publication Date: October 1971
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Issues: #13 of 22 Issues (28 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Magazine Management Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 07/27/1971
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1971 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress with a correction factor of plus 28 days.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Inks over pencils; colors yet to be added.
 
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Tragg
First Line: Tragg! He Who Stalks the Subway!
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Sandman Cometh!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, science fiction
Character(s): "Sandman"; Steve Bronson; Anne Bronson; Bobby Bronson
Synopsis: A family stumbles across a hostile alien made of sand. The military are helpless, but it is defeated by the family’s bookish son, who uses water to dissolve it and traps it in a bucket.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #70 [unnamed variant] published July 1961
was The Sandman Cometh! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: [V-225]
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two untitled parts (6 pp, 7 pp).
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I Dared Enter the Haunted Forest!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Darius Zorn; man in black
Synopsis: A bigoted rich man buys a cursed forest, unconcerned with the misfortunes that befall the village. The forest's keeper takes him to another dimension, explaining that he was looking for a man who no one would miss to display in the alien zoo.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #61 published October 1960
was I Dared Enter the Haunted Forest! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: T-859
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person.
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It Fell From the Flying Saucer!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: An artist finds an alien pencil that will make whatever he draws real, but his selfish use of it makes the aliens take it back.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #31 [U.S. Cover Price] published May 1962
was It Fell from the Flying Saucer! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-609
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The Thing From the Hidden Swamp

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Mary Brown; "The Thing from the Hidden Swamp" (only referred to as such in title)
Synopsis: A plain girl helps a stranded alien, and is made beautiful as a reward.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #30 [U.S. Cover Price] published April 1962
was The Thing from the Hidden Swamp [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: V-587
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In the Shadow of Tragg -- He Who Walks Beneath the Earth!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Tragg; David Arnstead
Synopsis: Reporter David Arnstead investigates the shut-down of a New York City subway line and finds Tragg, a subterranean monster that kills anything human it encounters.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #33 [U.S. Cover Price] published January 1975
as In the Shadow of Tragg [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: New story in the style of the earlier Lee/Kirby/Ditko monster tales.

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