Tales of the Unexpected #40 (1959) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	Battle of the Colossal Creatures!	cover	1	pencils: Bob Brown; inks: Bob Brown
2	The Last Days of Planet Mars!	comic story	9.67	script: Gardner Fox, Ed Hamilton; pencils: Jim Mooney; inks: Jim Mooney	Space Ranger; Myra Mason; Cryll
5	The Tree of Death!	comic story	0.5	script: Morris Waldinger; pencils: Morris Waldinger; inks: Morris Waldinger; letters: Morris Waldinger
7	-	comic story	1	script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff; letters: Henry Boltinoff
8	The Lighthouse in the Sky	comic story	5.67	script: Jack Miller; pencils: Howard Purcell; inks: Howard Purcell
10	Peter Porkchops Gives Tips on Summer Fun!	public service announcement	1	script: Jack Schiff; pencils: Rube Grossman; inks: Rube Grossman; letters: Ira Schnapp
11	Comets, Helium, Robot	cartoon	0.5	script: Mort Drucker; pencils: Mort Drucker; inks: Mort Drucker; letters: Mort Drucker
13	The Super-Insect Army	text story	1	letters: typeset
14	The Battle of the Colossal Creatures	comic story	7.67	script: Jack Miller; pencils: Bob Brown; inks: Bob Brown	Dave Appleton

Plus 7.99 pages of advertisements and other matter across 11 sequences, as published.

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