Sinister Tales
#74
Alan Class,
1964 Series
- Price
- 1/- [0-1-0 GBP]
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Alan Class & Co. Ltd
- Brand
-
AC Approved Comic
His Magic Is Powerless to Save Mandrake as He Plunges toward Certain Death!
Mandrake the Magician / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- adventure; superhero
- Reprints
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from Mandrake the Magician (King Features, 1966 series) #2 (November 1966)
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Specter from Space
Mandrake the Magician / comic story / 15 pages
- Genre
- adventure; science fiction; superhero
- Characters
- Mandrake; Lothar
- Synopsis
- Visitors from another world are coming to earth, and announce their friendly intentions. Governments around the world acknowledge them and search through the skies to find them, to no avail. The visitors are microscopic.
Indexer Notes
Adaptation of newspaper strip stories. Scripting credit from Martin O'Hearn.
The Pirate Raiders
The Phantom / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- adventure; jungle
- Characters
- Phantom; Teekan
The Return of the Living Robot!
comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The police--the government--they all think me dead!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Living Robot [John]; Cyril Stretford
- Synopsis
- The fugitive robot impersonates a prominent MP to lift the robot ban. The MP escapes and defeats the robot with his bare hands, since he is also a robot, secretly protecting humanity.
The Phantom Casino
Mandrake the Magician / comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- adventure; superhero
- Characters
- Lucky Larry Yates; Mandrake; Lothar; Police Chief
- Synopsis
- Lucky Larry builds a Casino on a blimp, and to avoid the laws against it he floats it 3 miles up before he allows gambling. Mandrake gets the pilot to land the blimp unbeknownst to Larry so he can be arrested for running an illegal casino.
Music From Above
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Joe; Gus; Angelo
- Synopsis
- A struggling band takes on a poor but talented young harp player who turns out to be a young angel studying on Earth.
Earth Will Be Destroyed!
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- T-641
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Behold the planet of Gorgon!!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- Aliens plot to devastate Earth before invading, but they cannot pinpoint its location. They are unaware that they are on Earth as a speck of dust in a petri dish, which is casually discarded.
- Keywords
- Gorgon (planet); U-gun
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the third person. This story is retold with a single creature in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #18 (April 1961) as "Monsteroso!" drawn by Steve Ditko and in Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series) #9 (February 1962 series) as "The Terror of Tim Boo Baa" by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. Stan Lee is speculatively credited as the writer on the basis of his authorship of the second re-telling.
Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
To Fight Is To Die
Lightning / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Lightning; Dr. Forkliff; Mockman
I Escaped to Another World!
comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The year was 1962...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Dr. Kermanki
- Synopsis
- A prisoner escapes and uses a time machine to travel into the past, but he accidentally kills his own ancestor, erasing himself.
The Man Who Never Returned
comic story / 3 pages
- Job Number
- K-571
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Eddie Peakes
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
His Magic Is Powerless to Save Mandrake as He Plunges toward Certain Death!
Mandrake the Magician -
1.
Specter from Space
Mandrake the Magician -
2.
The Pirate Raiders
The Phantom -
3.
The Return of the Living Robot!
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4.
The Phantom Casino
Mandrake the Magician -
5.
Music From Above
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6.
Earth Will Be Destroyed!
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7.
To Fight Is To Die
Lightning -
8.
I Escaped to Another World!
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9.
The Man Who Never Returned
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10.
Crawl or Die
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11.
Companion Comics in this Series
This issue was modified by, among others
- Doug Brain
- Clint Maxwell
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