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Issue: Strange Tales of the Unusual #10
Publication Date: June 1957
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Issues: #10 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: 9 (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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The Menace of the Unseen Man!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Severin (signed)
Inker(s): John Severin (signed)
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.
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Menace of the Unseen Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Richard Doxsee (signed)
Inker(s): Richard Doxsee (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Terry Szenics ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, science fiction
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-854
Disclose Notes: This is the story of a hobo who finds berries which make him invisible so he steals jewels and it ends the same way as the first story in Marvel Tales #139.

Wessler script from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
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The Man Who Said "No"

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Angelo Torres
Inker(s): Angelo Torres
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Joe Letterese
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Jonathan Bascombe; Max
Synopsis: A man refuses to give money to a scientist to help complete a cellular shrinking serum. Through a lab accident, he has shrunk himself and dies.
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In Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #16 [unnamed variant] published April 1975
as The Man Who Said "No" [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #164 published January 1976
as The Man Who Said "No" [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-884
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Don't Answer the Phone!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Gray Morrow
Inker(s): Gray Morrow
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Joe Letterese
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A man's murdered wife continues to phone him from the grave until he confesses to the police.
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In Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #9 published April 1975
as Don't Answer the Phone! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-875
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Mass Murder

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Robert Q. Sale (signed)
Inker(s): Robert Q. Sale (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Ray Holloway ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A scientist makes use of a duplicator ray to make multiple copies of himself in order to work on a scientific problem, then later destroys the copies. An acquaintance prosecutes him for mass murder. The story ends by asking the reader how they would decide the case.
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In Content Item: FlagVault of Evil #18 published April 1975
as Mass Murder [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-899
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Statement of Ownership

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): Typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
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Green Thumbs

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Marie Severin (illustrations)
Inker(s): Marie Severin (illustrations)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1.5
Job Number: J-93
Disclose Notes: Job number suggests this is an inventory story or reprint from an unknown source.
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The Threat!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Paul Reinman ?
Inker(s): John Tartaglione ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Ray Holloway ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A man discovers that his grandfather built a machine to bring people from another dimension to his home town and keep from returning as long as it functioned. He discovers the machine in the attic still running eighty years later and hatches a plan to extort the descendants of the people by threatening to turn off the machine and exiling them from this dimension. They reject his demand for payment so he attempts to demonstrate his threat by turning the dial on machine, but he himself disappears as he was unaware that his mother was one of other dimensional beings brought over.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: L-886
Disclose Notes: Wessler script from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.
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The Nightmare Men

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Mac Pakula (signed)
Inker(s): Mac Pakula (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A tyrant's sleep is disturbed every night by men who approach him with the word 'justice' emblazoned upon armbands. These men intend to drag him off, but he awakens before they do so. When the tyrant forces a doctor to treat him, his guards find him missing the following morning and wonder if, in his dream last night, he did not wake up before the justice men dragged him off?
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In Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #9 published April 1975
as The Nightmare Men [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #164 published January 1976
as The Nightmare Men [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-888

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