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| Publication | [circa 1971 - 1972] | Price: 0.10 GBP | Pages: 1 |
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| Cover | The Challenge of Zarkorr? |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Zarkorr; Dave Bartlett |
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| Text Story | The Radio (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | A ham radio enthusiast picks up a genie on one frequency but wastes his three wishes before he knows what's happening. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset | Job #: F-946 |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Bill Barton; Mr. Sparks |
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| Comic Story | I Accepted the Deadly Challenge of Zarkorr! (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | A veteran space pilot is forced to retire because of his lack of experience with newer equipment, but an alien visitor gives Earth a challenge that only he can pass. After succeeding, he is appointed to command the space patrol, but the alien visitor was really the pilot in disguise. |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Dave Bartlett [Zarkorr] |
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| Comic Story | The Worst Man on Earth! (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | A criminal in the year 2000 is sentenced to be exiled from humanity for his various crimes as the death penalty has been abolished. He mocks his accusers since he has prepared a micro-drill built into his finger that will get the door of his cell open eventually. When he does succeed in getting it open, he wishes he hadn't, as it turns out his cell had been placed in orbit around the planet. |
| Credits | Job #: X-25 |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Hogarr |
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| Comic Story | The Perfect Crime! (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | A crook tries to kill and rob a man by pushing him off a cliff, but finds that he is a flying man from Mercury. |
| Credits | Job #: [V-787?] |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Mike Morgan |
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| Comic Story | The Doorway to Nowhere! (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | After escaping from jail, Hugo Cragg heads for a deserted mansion to hide out until the heat is off. Then he discovers a strange closet in the house: after he puts something into it, the object disappears! He figures that if the objects disappear into another dimension, why not go there himself to hide from the Police? He does, but becomes two-dimensional. |
| Credits | Job #: V-798 |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Hugo Cragg |
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| Comic Story | The Thing from Outer Space! (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | An explorer returns to Earth with a telepathic plant, which claims that it is the real human, and that their minds have been swapped. The switch is reversed, and the planet quarantined. |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Col. John Rogers |
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| Comic Story | The Frightened Man! (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A scientist tries to use a time machine to escape the dangers of the modern world, but he finds that every era has its dangers. |
| Credits | Job #: V-706 |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: John Bentley |
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| Comic Story | At Last My Eyes Have Opened (6 pages) |
| Credits | Job #: 3364 |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction |
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| Comic Story | It Was Only a Simple Barber Shop...or Was It??! (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Muggsy Bogar is a crook on the run. A mysterious figure instructs him to hide in a nearby barbershop. He goes in and the barber hides him forever. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Muggsy Bogar; Joe the Barber; Bill |
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| Comic Story | The Voice of Fate! (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Fates make a wager over whether humans will ever understand that they cannot escape them. One of them tells a jewel thief that he will be punished, but he defies fate and flees the country, thinking that since the US is in World War II he will never be found and punished in Hiroshima. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Walter Krugg |
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| Comic Story | The Thing in the Locked Room! (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Prince Zemu takes a strange painting as part of his booty, only to discover it saps his life and youth from him. |
| Credits | Job #: V-616 |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Prince Zemu |
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| Comic Story | Beware the Future Man! (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | A gangster tries to escape the police by forcing an old man to take him to another state. The old man turns out to be from the future and is looking for a male specimen to put on display. |
| Credits | Job #: V-630 |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Elsa Peterson |
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| Comic Story | The Pharaoh's Skis! (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Harris; Olaf Hamsun; Gorton |
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| Comic Story | A Highly Localized Snowfall! (11 pages) |
| Content | Characters: Stephen Simms; Veronica Ravelli; Anton Mavellero |
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| Comic Story | It Happened in Central Europe! (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Mike and Abby Hall restore the throne of Slovenia to its rightful owner with some supernatural help. |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Mike Hall; Abby Hall; O'Shea; King Garok; Anton Horjak; King Stefan; Gregor Olnar; Tarina; Kubachek |
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| Comic Story | No Place to Hide! (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Charles Weldon has worked for Ferris for 20 years but feels he has only been paid a pittance. Ferris leaves the building leaving Weldon alone. Weldon opens the safe and takes all the money. He tries to leave town but each method he tries, train, bus and plane, is stymied. Leaving the airport the mist swirls thicker and then he finds himself back outside his work. He puts the money back in the safe just as Ferris returns. Ferris is worried about the money but seeing Weldon is reassured. Ferris then tells Weldon that he has not treated him properly and will make him a partner in the firm. |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Charles Weldon; Mr. Ferris (Charles' boss) |
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| Comic Story | The Accused (5 pages) |
| Featuring | Richard Manning Public Defender |
| Credits | Job #: S-483 |
| Content | Genre: Crime |
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