Additional Information |
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Publication | August 1961 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bimonthly |
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Cover | Awesome! Terrible! The Monstrous Flying Reptile! |
Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Reptilicus |
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Advertisement | Brother, Can you Spare a Dime? (1 page) |
Credits | Pencils:? (photograph) | Inks:? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
Content | Characters: George Jowett; Winfield Scott Pugh |
Notes | Body-building advertisement. Inside front cover. |
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Comic Story | Reptilicus (20 pages) |
Synopsis | A miner finds a piece of a frozen reptile that renegerates into a monster when it thaws. |
Credits | Script: Sidney Pink (original story); Ib Melchoir (screenplay) |
Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Svend Alstrup; Professor Martens; General Grayson; Karen Martens; Lise Martens; Connie Miller |
Notes | Adaptation of the 1961 film. |
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Advertisement | The $10,000 Challenge Only Joe Wieder Dares to Make |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Notes | Body-building advertisement. Appears between pages 3 and 4 of main story. Top half of page. |
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Advertisement | Watch the Miracle of Birth |
Featuring | Egg Incubator |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Notes | Sold by Insta Sales Corp. |
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Advertisement | Test Your Talent (1 page) |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Notes | Advertisement for mail-order art instruction course. Appears between pages 11 and 12 of main story. |
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Advertisement | Fun! Fool Your Friends! Jokes! |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Notes | Advertisements for various novelty items. Top half of page. Appears between pages 17 and 18 of main story. |
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Advertisement | Swingingest' Way to Save! |
Synopsis | Put in a coin and listen to a tune. |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Notes | Bottom half of page. Appears between pages 17 and 18 of main story. |
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Publisher advertisement | Charlton Comics Monster Contest (2 pages) |
Synopsis | Prizes offered for the best name for Hunk's monster friend. |
Featuring | Hunk |
Content | Characters: Hunk; unnamed dinosaur |
Notes | Appears after the last page of the main story. |
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Text Story | Mind over Matter (2 pages) |
Synopsis | A professor is accused of using tricks to prove he has the power to animate objects, but he demonstrates his power and declares himself new ruler of the world. |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Professor John Hollister; Professor Ward L. Price |
Notes | The lettering for this story appears to have been done on an IBM Selectric typewriter. |
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Comic Story | Daydreams (3 pages) |
Synopsis | Harry Brown dreams of becoming a heroic man, but when it appears that his dreams are coming true, he decides he'd rather not. |
Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Harry Brown |
Notes | This story seems to be loosely based on "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty." |
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Advertisement | New Super-Speed Way to Add Pounds of Solid Muscle (1 page) |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Notes | Advertisement for a body-building device. Appears between pages 1 and 2 of sequence 10. |
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Advertisement | Win a Diamond Hunting Trip (1 page) |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Notes | Contest entry advertisement. Daisy advertises in comics but never sells BB guns or pellet rifles through the mail. |
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Advertisement | Boys! Girls! Ladies! Men! Win a Beautiful New Photo Ring! (1 page) |
Synopsis | If you win the contest, you receive a ring plus 14 packages of Cloverine Brand Salve to sell. |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Notes | Inside back cover. |
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Advertisement | 204 Revolutionary War Soldiers (1 page) |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Notes | Two complete armies made of molded plastic, each on its base.
Back cover. |
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