Astounding Stories
#169
([circa 1983 - 1984])
Alan Class,
1966 Series
- Price
- 0.25 GBP
- Pages
- 52
- On-sale Date
- 1983 ?
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Alan Class & Co. Ltd
- Brand
-
Class Series
- Editing
- Alan Class (reprint editor)
Issue Notes
Issue is undated. Estimated date based on analysis of brands and cover prices in the series.
Mystery Island!
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
-
from Forbidden Worlds (American Comics Group, 1951 series) #80 (July 1959)
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Mystery Island!
comic story / 7 pages
- Characters
- Constantine Milo; Randy Miles; Lisa Miles
- Reprints
- from Forbidden Worlds (American Comics Group, 1951 series) #80 (July 1959)
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Trapped, But Not Forever!
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Alice; Timbo; Mike
- Reprints
- from Strange (Farrell, 1957 series) #3 (August 1957) which is reprinted
- from Voodoo (Farrell, 1952 series) #17 (September-October 1954) [retitled]
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The Proper Spirit!
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Alfie Condon; Rafie
- Synopsis
- Two crooks are raising a boy to beg money for them, but one night they all stay in a haunted house and a ghost takes a liking to the boy and scares the crooks away so that the ghost can raise the boy himself.
- Reprints
- from Forbidden Worlds (American Comics Group, 1951 series) #139 (October 1966)
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He Hides Among Us
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- J-483
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- A doctor raises a Martian child among humans as an experiment. When a young man breaks several athletic records, his rival for the affection of a young girl digs through the doctor's records attempting to prove his suspicions regarding alien origin. The doctor catches him going through the files and confronts the snoop with the knowledge that he might be the alien since he does not remember his parents, and the man leaves town to kept the secret quiet. At the wedding of the athletic man and the young girl, the doctor's thoughts reveal that it is the girl who is the Martian.
- Reprints
- from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #36 (July 1956)
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[no title indexed]
Bull's-Eye Bill / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Tunisia is free!
- Reprints
- from Target Comics (Novelty / Premium / Curtis, 1940 series) #v4#8 [44] (December 1943)
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The Tree
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- K-435
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Wally Hadley
- Synopsis
- When a family moves to a house in the country their son finds a gnarled little tree on their land that grants wishes.
- Reprints
- from Strange Stories of Suspense (Marvel, 1955 series) #11 (October 1956)
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The Mystery of the Missing Man
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- J-978
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A stolen box shrinks the thief into a small figurine.
- Reprints
- from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #38 (September 1956)
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The First Man
comic story / 4 pages
- Reprints
- from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #41 (March 1956)
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I Saw a Demon!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- K-403
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A scientist invents a machine to record sound waves onto solid objects such as rocks and tests the playback on a rock taken from an old temple where the black arts were practiced. At first he hears his voice from the test he made, but then sounds continue as the machine plays back a chant that was stored ages ago on the rock and a demon appears.
- Reprints
- from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #40 (November 1956)
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Robot on the Rampage!
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- T-135
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Supreme Calculator
- Synopsis
- A supercomputer and its army of robots enslave humanity, but it is stopped when a janitor unplugs it.
- Reprints
- from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #51 (March 1959)
-
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Mystery Island!
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1.
Mystery Island!
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2.
Trapped, But Not Forever!
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3.
The Proper Spirit!
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4.
He Hides Among Us
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5.
["Tunisia is free!"]
Bull's-Eye Bill -
6.
The Tree
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7.
The Mystery of the Missing Man
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8.
The First Man
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9.
I Saw a Demon!
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10.
Robot on the Rampage!
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