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Issue: World of Suspense #1
Publication Date: April 1956
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Issues: #1 of 8 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Atlas [black & white]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Atlas News Company Inc.
On Sale Date: 1956
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
Format Notes:  
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A Stranger Among Us?

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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A Stranger Among Us

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Jack Fields; Andy Hiller; unnamed microscopic visitor
First Line: It struck without warning...
Synopsis: Two men in a lab are told a story by a man behind a glass window about visiting a world of giants. They laugh the story off until later, after the man behind the glass has left, another man enters the lab and demonstrates that the glass is a microscopic lens.
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In Content Item: FlagVault of Evil #16 published December 1974
as A Stranger Among Us [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: J-194
Disclose Notes: Everett inks over another's pencils, possibly those of John Forte. Note also that Everett does not sign this story, as was his practice.
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The Two-Faced Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): John Sheridan; Joel Pike; Bella Dawne
First Line: Boy, how I'd like to be in Sheridan's place!
Synopsis: A stagehand of the play Cyrano De Bergerac is in love with the leading lady, so he resolves to knock out the leading man and don his makeup, so he can get close enough to her to confess his feelings. She doesn't notice that he is a different man, so when he asks her for a kiss she refuses and says that she is in love with the stagehand. He exclaims that he is the stagehand, but when he tries to remove the false nose, he finds that he cannot.
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In Content Item: FlagFear #24 [unnamed variant] published October 1974
as The Two-Faced Man [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: J-211
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Bright New World!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Captain Irwin Winters; Judy Winters; Mac Jones; Coy (prosecutor); unnamed judge
First Line: A most unusual story...
Synopsis: A jetliner is caught in a storm that takes it through space to the planet Uranus and back.
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In Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #102 published January 1974
as Bright New World! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: J119
Disclose Notes: Wessler script from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
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The Alchemist's Apprentice

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Hugo
First Line: He was destined to remain...
Synopsis: An alchemist's apprentice from the Middle Ages is jeered at because he is oafish and desires to learn alchemy so he will no longer be mocked. When he hears his master and his friends coming to laugh at him, he grabs the wrong vial in trying to finish an experiment and the resulting explosion blows him to the Moon where the moon people set him up as ruler.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: J145
Disclose Notes: The inhabitants of the Moon are very similar to those of Venus depicted in the previous story - green with large pointed ears.
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The Art Expert

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (spot illustration)
Inker(s): ? (spot illustration)
Colorist(s): ? (spot illustration)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Ezra Standish
First Line: Ezra Standish was a man of independent means.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #43 published February 1957
as The Living Portrait [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "The Living Portrait"
In Content Item: FlagTales of the Supernatural #[nn] published January 1964
as The Art Expert [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: J-244
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What Happened in the Cave?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Caesar Octavius; Marc Claudius; Mysticus
First Line: I say they are spies for Athens...
Synopsis: A Roman emperor sends his adviser with a magician into the future and when the adviser returns with modern weapons he overthrows the emperor.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: J-118
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The Mechanical Man!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Mark Jordan
First Line: Of course you've heard of Mark Jordan!
Synopsis: A robot inventor has a nightmare that if he made a human-like robot it would take his job, so he resolves never to build a robot that can do anything more than calculate.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #102 published January 1974
as The Mechanical Man! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: J172

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