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Issue: Strange Tales of the Unusual #5
Publication Date: August 1956
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Issues: #5 of 11 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Atlas [black & white]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Warwick 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)
Editor(s): Stan Lee
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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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reprinted 5 times as Content Items in other Issues.
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The Threat!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Bill Everett
Inker(s): Bill Everett
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Moving Stairs!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Inker(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Joe Letterese
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: J-636
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The Last Tomorrow

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Reed Crandall
Inker(s): Reed Crandall
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Joe Letterese
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: J-747
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The Threat!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Harry Lazarus (signed)
Inker(s): Harry Lazarus (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Joe Letterese
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: J-807
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The Parrot Speaks!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ed Winiarski
Inker(s): Ed Winiarski
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: J-748
Disclose Notes: Art credits from www.atlastales.com
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Special Sale

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Gene Colan
Inker(s): Gene Colan
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Marvin Kale; Paula Kale
Synopsis: When a husband goes shopping he finds a new cleaning fluid that makes anything better than new, even him.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #59 published July 1957
as Magic Mist Foam [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "Magic Mist Foam"
In Content Item: FlagStrange Worlds #3 published April 1959
as Special Sale [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #13 published November 1960
as Special Sale [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #90 published November 1961
as Special Sale [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales of Suspense #28 [U.S. Cover Price] published April 1962
as Special Sale [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: J-932
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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Mary's Robot!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Howard O'Donnell (signed)
Inker(s): Howard O'Donnell (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: J-642
Disclose Notes: Wessler script from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
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One Mistake!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Bob McCarty
Inker(s): Bob McCarty
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Joe Letterese
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: J-567

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