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5October 1955
$0.10

Strange Stories of Suspense #5

Marvel · October 1955

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Series
Strange Stories of Suspense (Marvel, 1955 series)
Issue
#5
Publication date
October 1955
Key date
1955-10-00
Indicia publisher
Classic Syndicate Inc.
Price
$0.10
Pages
36
Rating
Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0The Little Black Box!cover1pencils: Joe Maneely; inks: Joe Maneely; colors: Stan Goldberg
1The Little Black Box!comic story5pencils: Dick Ayers; inks: Dick Ayers, Ernie Bache; letters: Dick Ayers
2Strange Rescuetext story2letters: typeset
3The Prisoner!comic story4pencils: Art Peddy; inks: Art Peddy
4Uncle Ed and the Men from Spacecomic story5pencils: John Forte; inks: John Forte
5Magic Words!comic story4pencils: Russ Heath; inks: Russ Heath
6Man of Mysterycomic story5pencils: Syd Shores; inks: Syd Shores

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