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Issue: Adventures into Weird Worlds #3
Publication Date: March 1952
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Issues: #3 of 30 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Atlas [black & white]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Animirth Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Contents from www.atlastales.com.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; color interior
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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reprinted 2 times as Content Items in other Issues.
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The Thing That Waited!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Colors: Stan Goldberg states himself.
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A Shriek in the Night!

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Synopsis: A man becomes the victim of underground creatures who abduct humans in order to study them so as to prepare for an invasion.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: 9680
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The War of the Worlds

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Jonathan Ditmar
Synopsis: When hostile aliens come to Earth of the future they are persuaded not to enslave humanity because of Earth's music.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales #112 published March 1953
as The Conquerors!! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "The Conquerors!!"
In Content Item: FlagMystery Tales #26 published February 1955
as From Outer Space [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "From Outer Space"
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: 9498
Disclose Notes: The story has no relation to H. G. Wells famous story of the same name.
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The Thing That Waited!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): Josef Stalin
Synopsis: Stalin and Soviet troops stand revealed as shape-shifting alien invaders.
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Pages: 5
Job Number: 9553
Disclose Notes: Protagonist says that his predicament is "worse than some of Thorne Smith's crazy situations," an allusion to James Thorne Smith, Jr. (1892-1934), a writer well known for his humorous supernatural fantasies, e.g., Topper (1926) and its sequel Topper Takes a Trip (1932).
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Nothing Can Stop Me

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Synopsis: A weak man takes an experimental strength serum derived from a gorilla to impress a girl, but it transforms him into a gorilla completely.
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Pages: 3
Job Number: 9620
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The Quiet Men

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Synopsis: Martians encounter a 'ghost ship' from Earth which is a bomber responsible for dropping the bomb that initiated an atomic holocaust on Earth.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: 9565
Disclose Notes: Story inspired by the legend of the Flying Dutchman.

Credit information from www.atlastales.com.
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The Empty City

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Synopsis: A reporter stumbles upon aliens who are taking the place of humans. He tries to give the story to his editor, but his editor is one of...them.
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Pages: 6
Job Number: 9523
Disclose Notes: Note on splash reads in part, "This manuscript was brought to the office of Weird Worlds Publishing Company by a Mrs. Markam ...".

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