([circa 1972 - 1973])
Alan Class,
1966 Series
- Price
- 0.06 GBP
- Pages
- 52
- On-sale Date
- 1972 ?
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Alan Class & Co. Ltd
- Brand
-
AC Approved Comic
- Editing
- Alan Class (reprint editor)
Issue Notes
Issue is undated. Estimated date based on analysis of brands and cover prices in the series.
Out of the Unknown... a Ghostly Hero!
Nemesis / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Reprints
-
from Adventures into the Unknown (American Comics Group, 1948 series) #154 (February 1965)
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The Ghost Who Loved a Girl!
Nemesis / comic story / 16 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Reprints
- from Adventures into the Unknown (American Comics Group, 1948 series) #156 (April-May 1965)
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The Thing in the Sky!
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- The communists build a super computer space-based weapons platform and issue it commands to strike targets from where it sits in orbit. They build the machine too well, however, for it rejects the order as immoral and states any such further order will result in the weapons being trained upon those who issue it. The satellite assumes a guardian role over planet Earth.
- Reprints
- from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #32 (August 1962)
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The Man in the Beehive!
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Lucius Farnsworth; Eric
- Synopsis
- An eccentric beekeeper reveals to a thief that he is a mutant with special powers. He shrinks the thief and frightens him with the attacks of the bees that are now larger than he is, but leaves him wondering if any of it was real.
- Reprints
- from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #32 (August 1962)
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Ride to the Future
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Harry Benns; Poker; Zealzodo
- Synopsis
- A visitor from outer space helps an unimaginative boy win a new bike in a writing contest.
- Reprints
- from Astonishing (Marvel, 1951 series) #52 (August 1956)
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A Clear Case of Espionage
Scotland Yard / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Inspector Farnsworth [John K. Farnsworth]; Chipp Cromwell
- Reprints
- from Scotland Yard (Charlton, 1955 series) #4 (March 1956)
-
High Danger
comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Strange Suspense Stories (Charlton, 1955 series) #77 (October 1965)
-
Humans, Keep Out!
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Ezra Grumley
- Synopsis
- Humans are distressed to discover that the Venusians believe them to be hostile and have built robots to destroy any expedition that lands. A humble janitor thinks of building identical robots, reasoning that the Venusian's robots will not attack things like themselves, allowing peaceful contact to be made.
- Reprints
- from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #86 (November 1962)
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Those Who Lurk Below!
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Pierre; Kragok
- Synopsis
- A sadistic jailer buys a book detailing an alien civilization that has retreated below the Earth in order to avoid surface climate change in order to torment his prisoner with false hope of escape. The prisoner finds the book and believes the story and later he finds a working digger to bring him down to the aliens below who welcome him. The astonished jailer spends the rest of his life unsuccessfully attempting to locate another working digger.
- Reprints
- from Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #12 (November 1960)
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Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Out of the Unknown... a Ghostly Hero!
Nemesis -
1.
The Ghost Who Loved a Girl!
Nemesis -
2.
The Thing in the Sky!
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3.
The Man in the Beehive!
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4.
Ride to the Future
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5.
A Clear Case of Espionage
Scotland Yard -
6.
High Danger
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7.
Humans, Keep Out!
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8.
Those Who Lurk Below!
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- Peter Croome
- Gary Henderson
- Karsten S.
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