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Issue: Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales #4
Publication Date: April 2011
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Issues: #4 of 6 Issues (12 Printings)
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Variant: Regular Edition
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: MarvelView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Worldwide Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/06/2011
Volume: 4
Pages: 254
ISBN: 9780785150145
UPC/EAN: 978078515014555999
Price: $66.99 CAD
$59.99 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 68 (54 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Reprints Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 Series) #31-39.
Color reconstruction: Sheila Johnson (interiors), Michael Kelleher (covers).
Art reconstruction: Michael Kelleher & Kellustrations (#31-34, 36-37, 39, and covers), Pacific Rim Graphics (#35, 38).
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Publication Type: Hardcover
Color: color
Dimensions: 7.5 in. x 10.25 in.
Paper Stock: glossy
Binding: hardcover with dustjacket
Publishing Format: collected edition
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reprinted 66 times from Content Items in other Issues.
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[untitled]

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Credits/Contests

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The History of Atlas Horror/Fantasy: Pre- and Post-Code 1954-1955

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Strange Tales #31

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was The Man Who Played with Blocks! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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The Man Who Played With Blocks!

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Herman Pringle; Mr. Browder; Mary
Synopsis: A toy maker gets a hold of wood leftovers from coffin construction and builds toy blocks from them. Like a voodoo figurine, whatever is built from the blocks is destroyed when the blocks are scattered.
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The Living Legend

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Character(s): Robert Weirton; Vance Thane
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The Bum!

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Synopsis: A bum involved in a train wreck regrets when he takes the clothes off a prosperous man and leaves him to die, only to be arrested by the police and learns that they have mistaken him for a different bum that committed murder earlier and stole the victim's clothes.
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The Money Tree!

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Professor Wilson; Filmore; Ace Horton
Synopsis: A professor is killed by a gangster who funded his money tree project when the tree only produces three dollar bills.
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The First Man

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Character(s): Jackson Cole; Narim; Abena
Synopsis: A mountain climber wants to be the first man atop Mount Ka, and he succeeds, but he finds that still he has been preceded to the summit...by a werewolf.
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The Strange Ones!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Falten
Synopsis: Scientists search for a mutant to tame their atomic pile but he has undergone a procedure that makes him normal.
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Strange Tales #32

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Man or Beast?

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Character(s): Joel Dennis; Marion; Herme Slovak
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The Ticket

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Character(s): Tom Feeley
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The Dreadful Disguise

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Character(s): Nick Jacapo
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Harley's Friends

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Character(s): Harley
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The Wrong Man

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Character(s): Marcy; Charles Johnson; Largo
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The Horrible Years!

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Character(s): Harry; Molly
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Strange Tales #33

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A Giant There Was!

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Character(s): Stephen; Kevin; Carl
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The Haunted Man

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Character(s): Joseph Wintergreen; Dennis Strange
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The Schemers!

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Character(s): Paul; Edgar; Della
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Step Lively, Please

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Character(s): Hans Dorfman; Kurt
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The Spy!

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Character(s): Igor; Jan
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What Is It?

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Lonzo Peer; Jamison
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Strange Tales #34

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Flesh and Blood

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Character(s): Foster Hale; Marge; Prescott Saunders
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Boomerang!

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Character(s): Ben Moorehead; Mr. Harvey; Olaf Reimann
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was Boomerang! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Moment of Glory

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Character(s): Sammy Glenn; Ben Graham
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The Last Barrier

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Character(s): Otto Brown
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The Strange Room

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Character(s): Jim Howard; Helen Howard
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Family Tree!

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Character(s): Karl Schultz
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Strange Tales #35

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Danger Signal!

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Peter; Janet
Synopsis: A boy playing with toy trains saves his train engineer father when he leaves a warning light on a train rail that hasn't been switched due to the signalman's suffering a heart attack and the warning light appears in real life.
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My Friend Koogelie

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Danny Wilcox; Mrs. Wilcox; Mr. Wilcox; Doctor Trimbauer; Googelie
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The Man in the Bottle!

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Adam Halley
Synopsis: A man gets suckered into releasing a tiny prisoner in a bottle due to promises of wealth only to find that he must take the prisoner's place.
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The Target!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Randy; Hoyt; Marla; Doctor Karns; Professor Bends
Synopsis: A young boy has his interest in space travel discouraged by his parents since they do not want him to return to Earth.
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The Character

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Merlin
Synopsis: Merlin takes a tour of modern day London and is disappointed when the natives fail to show the appropriate respect.
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Freddie's Face

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Freddie; Mrs Novack; Betty
Synopsis: A man's ugly face begins to look handsome as he does good deeds.
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was Freddie's Face [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Strange Tales #36

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was The Man Who Turned Off the Sun! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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The Man Who Turned Off the Sun!

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Henry Farnol; Martha Farnol
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Music in the Air

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[untitled]

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First Line: Who let the air out of your tires?
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[untitled]

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The Girl Who Wouldn't Speak!

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Character(s): Emory Hastings; Mrs. Biggs
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The Discovery

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Character(s): Mike Sloane; Ernie Watkins; Jim Handley
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The Bell That Wouldn't Stop

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The Secret Weapon

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Mason; Newton; Reilly; Dillon
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Strange Tales #37

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was Out of the Storm [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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A Stroke of the Pen

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Everett Corliss; Benton
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The Richest Man in the World

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Character(s): Jim Holden
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Too Many Robots

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Steve; Charley Brown; Henry Stone
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The Hero

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Johnny; Bob
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Out of the Storm

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Character(s): John Oogluma; Chester Martin; Tommy Martin
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Don't Think So Loud

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Mark Dawes
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Strange Tales #38

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The Man in the Sky

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Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A "Jack and the Beanstalk" story with a moral against being too greedy.
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From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #38 published September 1955
was The Man in the Sky [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
Job Number: G-634
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From Outer Space

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
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.
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From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #38 published September 1955
was From Outer Space [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 2
Job Number: G-715
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The Shaggy Creature!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Bradley Brenton
Synopsis: People wonder why a wealthy man carries around a teddy bear with him wherever he goes not realizing that the bear is his financial adviser.
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From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #38 published September 1955
was The Shaggy Creature! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 4
Job Number: G-646
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No Escape!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Harry; Gloria
Synopsis: A married couple going through some rocky times are watching television with each other when they see a show called 'Supposing' featuring actors who look like them. Through various scenarios the two realize fate brought them together and resolve to stop sniping at each other. They are shocked when they glance behind the set and realize that the TV is not plugged in.
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From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #38 published September 1955
was No Escape! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 4
Job Number: G-616
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Time Crime

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Ed Evans
Synopsis: A man invents a time machine in order to commit crimes but he runs afoul of the 'Time Adjusters' who correct flaws in the time stream.
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From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #38 published September 1955
was Time Crime [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
Job Number: G-663
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The Boy Who Saw!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Tad Wilson
Synopsis: Three men receive warnings from an angelic boy who charges a penny to read their futures. When the dire predictions come true, the men return to boy for more advice only to learn that the boy's mother has made him give up his business and he walks off into the sky to return home.
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From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #38 published September 1955
was The Boy Who Saw! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
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Strange Tales #39

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From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #39 published October 1955
was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1
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Karnoff's Plan!

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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Professor Karnoff
Synopsis: A Puppet Master type story but his material works on buildings as well as people. He meets his doom when his landlady sells his statue of himself along with other personal items for nonpayment of rent and the buyer tosses it in the trash.
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From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #39 published October 1955
was Karnoff's Plan [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
Job Number: G-785
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Music Master

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, horror
Character(s): Joe; Gus; Angelo
Synopsis: A struggling band takes on a poor but talented young harp player who turns out to be a young angel studying on Earth.
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From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #39 published October 1955
was Music Master [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 2
Job Number: G-804
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Blind Spot!

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Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A homely alien is going to recommend humans be destroyed to preserve the galactic peace when he saves a blind girl from being struck by a car. After she tells him she can sense his inner nobility he changes his recommendation to allow humans to develop their space-faring capability.
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From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #39 published October 1955
was Blind Spot [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
Job Number: G-271
Disclose Notes: This story is reminiscent of Alicia Master's first meeting with the Silver Surfer.
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The Secret of the Ship

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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Peter Grant
Synopsis: A young boy who plays with toy ships loses his paper route job when he is late once too often. The family needs extra money because the father is home recovering from an illness. The boy thinks his ship has become lost, but after awhile it returns loaded with black pearls it has traded for at a distant port.
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From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #39 published October 1955
was The Secret of the Ship [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 4
Job Number: G-697
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The Man Mountain!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Mammoth
Synopsis: A story that explains the circumstances of the old woman who had so many children she didn't know what to do came to live in a shoe.
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From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #39 published October 1955
was The Man Mountain! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 4
Job Number: G-698
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Five Who Volunteered

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Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Burt Lloyd; Edmund Carter; Fred Burgess; Laura Beatty; George Reynolds; Morton; Edith Rogers
Synopsis: A TV producer of a candid-camera type show contacts an inventor who doesn't believe his rocket can fly to Venus. The producer says that's OK because he wants to advertise for five people who wish to leave Earth and film them being fooled by the fraud for the audience's amusement. The inventor agrees and is surprised when his rocket actually does succeed in reaching Venus, but not nearly as surprised as the producer and his film crew when the five recruits shape-shift into Venusians who are glad to be home.
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From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #39 published October 1955
was Five Who Volunteered [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
Job Number: G-741

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