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| Interesting book. Offbeat Twilight Zone-esque stories. Very good for the period. |
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| Thanks for the tip baldy51 – nice piece of work. My favourite was the Pipes of Pan – just a little bit creepy! |
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| Yeah, I’ve seen people talk about the Comics Code ruining comic books completely, but if the Twilight Zone was anything to go by, it reinforced how interesting material could still be expressed without necessarily needing gore and things like that. Not to say that outright censorship of more taboo topics was the best outcome, in spite of any of the best intentions of complaints against comics at the time, but certainly not a mark of impossibility in regards to telling good stories either. |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | December 1955-January 1956 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
| Notes | Art credits from Saltarella via the GCD Error Tracker. |
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| Cover | The Pipes of Pan! |
| Credits | Pencils: Kurt Schaffenberger (signed) | Inks: Kurt Schaffenberger (signed) |
| Notes | Art credits from Saltarella via the GCD Error Tracker. |
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| Comic Story | From Time to Time! (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | With the help of a medium, Edan Lawrance travels back in time and is caught up in the Civil War. He manages to return to the present just seconds before facing a firing squad. |
| Credits | Pencils: Hy Fleishman | Inks: Hy Fleishman |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense; War |
| Notes | Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. |
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| Text Story | Sauce Vinaigrette (1 page) |
| Synopsis | A man descending partly from a line of mermaids falls in love with a girl. He flees the engagement dinner when fish is being served. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | The Statues! (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | When a museum is threatened to be closed down, the statues come to life and raise money by playing the stock market. |
| Credits | Pencils: Dick Giordano? |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Fantasy |
| Notes | Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. |
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| Comic Story | The Pipes of Pan (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | The girl Alice is held like a captive by her governess Miss Stone. Greek god Pan comes to her help and introduces her to a world of music, dance and joy. |
| Credits | Pencils: Jon D'Agostino? |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy |
| Notes | Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. |
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| Text Story | A Brush with Forever (1 page) |
| Synopsis | A magic brush animates the paintings. A painter escapes his tyrannical sister by painting himself into a Turish harem. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Fantasy |
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| Comic Story | The Boy Who Cried Wolf! (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | When the boy who cries wolf all the time encounters invaders from mars - no one believes him! |
| Credits | Pencils: Hy Fleishman (signed "HF") | Inks: Harry Harrison (signed "HH") |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Mentioned in splash is also a certain "Altwoman", which might point to an involvement of Gerald Altman as well. As this is the last story in the last issue, it might be a farewell to all co-workers. On a fence there are the names "Hy", "Harry", "Betty", "Billy" and "Lou". |
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