Thorpe & Porter,
1961? Series
- Price
- 1'- [0-1-0 GBP]
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Strato Publications
- Brand
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TP
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Undated.
[Descending]
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Reprints
-
from Out of This World (Charlton, 1956 series) #3 (March 1957)
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The Hunter's Prey!
comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Max Prine was the man who "Brought Them Back Alive!"
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Max Prine; Lana Prine; Reptile aliens
- Synopsis
- Max Prine is proud of capturing wild animals for zoos and circuses but his wife is not so sure. Returning from a hunt one day he sees his wife being abducted by aliens. He follows but is caught in an electrified trap. He wakes up in a cage and his wife tells him the aliens are collecting animals, including them, to take back to their world. They escape and are chased relentlessly by the aliens up a hill. Max turns the tables on the aliens by causing a landslide. Four aliens survive and they quickly escape in their rocket. Max releases the animals and tells Lana he is changing his job.
- Reprints
"Lying on a bed of spikes!"
Moolah the Mystic / comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Pencils
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Inks
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Letters
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Genre
- humour
- Reprints
- from Tales of the Unexpected (DC, 1956 series) #15 (July 1957)
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The Message
comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What was its purpose?
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Jorgg Wendt; Gyrok
- Synopsis
- Jorgg Wendt is one of Earth's most brilliant scientists. He starts building a machine responding to voices he hears. He is unable to tell anyone what he is building as he does not know. He tries to destroy the machine but cannot and faints. Another message comes through. Gyrok tells him that he has been sending the messages and that the machine is a defense machine which he is not allowed to build on his own world. Reassured Wendt finishes the machine but he has been tricked and it is actually a transporter which brings Gyrok and his people to Earth.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Alien invasion
The Ape in the Sky!
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Forbidden Worlds (American Comics Group, 1951 series) #80 (July 1959)
-
The Golden Knight
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Reprints
- from Forbidden Worlds (American Comics Group, 1951 series) #80 (July 1959)
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The Answer Machine!
comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Forbidden Worlds (American Comics Group, 1951 series) #80 (July 1959)
-
The Thing in the Sea
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Forbidden Worlds (American Comics Group, 1951 series) #80 (July 1959)
-
[no title indexed]
Crime Oddities / comic story / 0.67 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Blackmail, as we know it today...
- Genre
- non-fiction; crime
- Reprints
- from Mr. District Attorney (DC, 1948 series) #22 (July-August 1951)
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The Stranger
comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- From the moment the stranger arrived, things began to happen -- strange incidents which at first whetted curiosity, then brought wonderment -- and finally FEAR!
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Martin J. Colby; George; Charlie; Tom; Merlin
- Synopsis
- A stranger rents a cottage where he uses alchemy to bring creatures from another world who offer to share great wonders, but the townsfolk cart the stranger away, having discovered he is Martin J. Colby, escaped mental patient.
- Reprints
- from Forbidden Worlds (American Comics Group, 1951 series) #80 (July 1959)
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Mystery Island!
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Forbidden Worlds (American Comics Group, 1951 series) #80 (July 1959)
-
The Alien King From Earth!
comic story / 7.67 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Tales of the Unexpected (DC, 1956 series) #37 (May 1959)
-
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[Descending]
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1.
The Hunter's Prey!
-
2.
"Lying on a bed of spikes!"
Moolah the Mystic -
3.
The Power of Gru-Gru
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4.
The Weavers of Doom!
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5.
The Message
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6.
The Ape in the Sky!
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7.
The Golden Knight
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8.
The Answer Machine!
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9.
The Thing in the Sea
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10.
["Blackmail, as we know it today..."]
Crime Oddities -
11.
The Stranger
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12.
Mystery Island!
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13.
The Alien King From Earth!
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