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Issue: World of Mystery #3
Publication Date: October 1956
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Issues: #3 of 7 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Atlas [black & white]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Gem Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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The Bugs!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.
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The Bugs!

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Genres: science fiction
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K-343
Disclose Notes: same plot as The Twilight Zone's "The Invaders"
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Who Is Raymas?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: A woman in a Communist country creates the illusion of a man to take suspicion off of her efforts as a magician to disrupt the government's war production effort.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: K-364
Disclose Notes: Wessler script from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
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The Mystery Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: A government agent investigates a lecturer promoting a theory of cosmic harmony because the believers are contributing large sums of money to the man. When the agent convinces the lecturer to disband the group, some in the crowd are angered and they jostle the agent so that the gun he keeps in his shoulder holster goes off. The lecturer reveals himself as a being from another dimension, heals his wounds with but a touch, and disappears vowing to return when men no longer place a monetary value on his message of cosmic harmony.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: K-344
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I Received Letters from Nowhere

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Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: An antique dealer sells mail boxes that he drops letters into requesting ten dollars for advice on making money. He is arrested for fraud, but one of the boxes he sold actually did provide wealth-producing letters for its buyer.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: K-336
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Three Wishes

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Bill Barton; Mr. Sparks
Synopsis: A ham radio enthusiast picks up a genie on one frequency but wastes his three wishes before he knows what's happening.
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From Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales #133 published April 1955
was The Radio [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "Three Wishes"
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Pages: 2
Job Number: F-946
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The Man Who Failed

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Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: An inventor thinks himself a failure because his previous attempt was to build a machine that traveled through space and now this machine was to go through time, but all it did was produce a wrenching sensation and deposit him in front of normal people. He doesn't realize that the machine actually worked to transport him through space and time to Pluto's past where the civilization there is similar to present day Earth.
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Pages: 3
Job Number: K-468
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Nobody

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Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: An alien from another dimension is asked by his fellows to make the sacrifice of taking a pill that transforms him into a human so that the humans who are investigating his strange appearance will not be motivated to discover his origins.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: K-383

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