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The Man-Eating Plant- The Phantom Uncovers the Mystery

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Penciller(s): Govind

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Genres: adventure, drama, superhero

Feature(s): Phantom

Character(s): The Phantom; two tribesman

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Henry

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Henry

Character(s): Henry; grocer; bag salesman

Synopsis: Henry is given a shopping list which gives him too many parcels to carry, and he keeps dropping them. He then sees a store selling transparent plastic bags.

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Our New Age

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Writer(s): Athelstan Spilhaus (dean, University of Minnesota Institute of Technology)

Penciller(s): Gene Fawcette

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Genres: historical, non-fiction, science and technology

Feature(s): Our New Age

First Line: The Chinese "Cultured" pearls in the 13th Century

Synopsis: Discussion of inserting a impurity in oysters to get them to form a pearl. Also tells how the Japanese have experimented with oysters to get multiple pearls and change the colors using oysters. The 2nd page is devoted to Platinum.

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Around the World With Kunju Pillay

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Writer(s): Kavadi

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Genres: adventure, biography, historical, non-fiction

Feature(s): Kunju Pillay

Character(s): Kunju Pillay; Mr. Gore

First Line: To Kunju's Surprise, an Indian tourist, who stayed at Hotel Omavvad

Synopsis: Continuing his World Tour Kunju catches a ride with Mr. Gore to Beirut from Damascus. They descend to the plain of Biqa between the Anti-Lebanon and Lebanon Mountains, home of Baalbeck where Alexander the Great made settlement, where the six columns of the temple of Jupiter Hadad can be seen from a distance. Traveling toward Tripoli they came to Bisharra. Continuing to Beirut they stopped at the gigantic underground lake Jeita, and ending this issue in Beirut.

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The Man-Eating Plant

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Writer(s): ?

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Genres: adventure, drama, superhero

Feature(s): Phantom

Character(s): James; friendly natives; doctor; Mead; Plant God of Massau; Mac; Maggy Bell; Tura; Benji; The Phantom; Devil; Hero; Massau Witchdoctors

First Line: Deep inthe Jungle a small plane crashes

Synopsis: Surviving the crash with a broken ankle, the pilot James is found and taken to a hospital with delirium. He thought he saw someone sacrificed to a plant by the Massau natives. Mead organizes a safari to check it out and is followed by the writer Maggy Bell. The Phantom spots the safari and sends a native to inquire. The guides didn't know that the destination was the Massau Badlands, and they desert in the night. Now responsible for Ms Bell, Mead decides to return only to be caught by the Massau, who are using the plant to extort their neighbors. The Phantom discovers it is fake and wrecks it.

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What to Do?

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Penciller(s): Chitnis

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Genres: adventure, humorous

Feature(s): Raju

Character(s): Raju; Ma; Pa

First Line: Now that Raju is out,E

Synopsis: Raju’s parents send him to the children's park so they can have peace. Sliding down the slide lands in the fountain where he finds gold bricks upsetting a countrywide gang of smugglers. Reporters are suddenly hounding the family for the story; so much for peace and quiet.

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Guru's Club

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Genres: non-fiction, science and technology

Feature(s): Guru

Character(s): Guruji; Bholu; students

First Line: Why does it Rain Guruji?

Synopsis: Questions: Why does it Rain? How are clouds formed? Bholu has a Toothache and Guruji discusses tooth decay, to be then asked: Do the (mouth) germs dig with small axes? Are there really germs in my mouth? Guruji then leads a discussion of germs and shows what they look like. Who first saw the germs? We get pasteurized milk for the dairies. What does it mean?

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The Age of Man

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Writer(s): Sanzgiri

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Genres: historical, non-fiction

Feature(s): The Age of Man

First Line: For the Early Man,E

Synopsis: Early man's efforts at domestication.

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Penciller(s): Govind

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Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Phantom

Character(s): Phantom; two tribesmen

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