Strange
#1
(March 1957)
Farrell,
1957 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Bi-Monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Four Star Comic Corp.
- Brand
- Ajax; A Farrell Publication
- Editing
- Ruth Roche (editor)
Prisoner of the Shadows
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- No one notices Colin Field. Even finding his shadow doesn't help.
- Reprints
Dead on Arrival
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- crime; fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- Jim Ritchie meets Big Mike Spandau to extend their criminal operations, but mirror men are out to stop them.
- Reprints
Long Way
comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- drama
- Synopsis
- Jim Woods thinks his twin brother John doesn't want him in his business, but he accidentally learns how wrong he is from his brother's fiance Julie Thayer.
- Reprints
-
in Zombie (L. Miller & Son, 1961 series) #9 ([circa 1961]) - in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #29 (1962)
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in Strange Mysteries (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #11 (1963)
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The Million Dollar Allergy
comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- drama
- Synopsis
- Watson Carson's heirs struggle to meet the conditions of his will.
- Reprints
Charlie
comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Winthrop was a very bright young man who had everything he wanted, including something special that his well-intending relatives had overlooked...he had a friend!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Winthrop Peters, Jr.; Joe Taft (uncle); Mary Taft (aunt); Miss Jones (piano teacher)
- Synopsis
- Winthrop Peters, Jr. relies on his unseen companion Charlie, but when Winthrop's uncle and aunt makes plans for private school, Charlie has other ideas.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Joe Taft is called Alexander Taft in a caption in panel 2.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Prisoner of the Shadows?
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1.
Prisoner of the Shadows
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2.
Dead on Arrival
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3.
Long Way
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4.
The Million Dollar Allergy
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5.
Charlie
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6.
The Girl No One Really Knew!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Mike Nielsen
- Paul Robinson
- Richard Smith
- Dan Stevenson
- Jim Van Dore
- Gary L. Watson (R.I.P.)
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