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Issue: World of Suspense #6
Publication Date: February 1957
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Issues: #6 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: (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 Old Man Of The Mountain!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.
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The Old Man Of The Mountain!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Hans Knorst; Florio
First Line: There was the Mountain...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-154
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Come Into My Parlor

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Paulson; Cass; Mrs. Butler; Alfred Stamm
First Line: The old woman seemed to be harmless...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-234
Disclose Notes: Oleck script per Martin O'Hearn: http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2019/08/jack-oleck-stories-in-three-atlas-titles.html
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Six Strange Words

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
First Line: You will be looking on!
Synopsis: A thug threatens a sorcerer to tell him six words which allow him to send a man into limbo. After he uses them on the sorcerer he breaks the fourth wall and addresses the reader directly telling them they "know too much". He speaks the incantation once again, but this time he is the one to disappear into limbo where he finds the sorcerer laughing at him.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFrankenstein #13 [unnamed variant] published November 1974
as Six Strange Words [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: L-268
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Run, Coward, Run!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Jean Mornet; Louis; Pierre
First Line: This is a tale of family pride...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-191
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The Wishing Machine

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Character(s): Gerald Harper; Jimmy Gordon; Mrs. Gordon; Mr. Gordon
First Line: Ir was Gerald Harper's intention...
Synopsis: A man invents a wishing machine but loses the prototype on the way to the patent office.
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From Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #25 published July 1955
was Make a Wish [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "The Wishing Machine"
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Pages: 2
Job Number: G-301
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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A Scream For Help

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Carl Masson; Tom; Sam
First Line: Let's stop, Carl!
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Pages: 4
Job Number: L-178
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Foster's Fear

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Foster; Anderson; Mrs. Davis;
First Line: The old miser and his dog...
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-150
Disclose Notes: Oleck script per Martin O'Hearn: http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2019/08/jack-oleck-stories-in-three-atlas-titles.html

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