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Tales of the Unexpected #39 (1959) · The Collector

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Tales of the Unexpected (1956)
#39

DC Comics#39

Tales of the Unexpected

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Tales of the Unexpected #39

The Creatures from the Space Globe / The Space Musketeers / The Experimental Man

Publisher: DC Comics
Cover date: July 1959
On sale: May 14, 1959
Cover price: $0.10
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Credits

Writer: Henry Boltinoff
Pencillers: Bernard Baily, Nick Cardy, Henry Boltinoff, Jim Mooney
Inkers: Bernard Baily, Nick Cardy, Henry Boltinoff, Jim Mooney
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Grand Comics Database issue 15107

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Arnald Arnaldo finds a replica of a long lost planet in a Venusian curio shop. While studying it back on Earth, two figures come to life and go on a rampage. After they return to the globe, Arnaldo takes the globe to Mercury, thinking Earth's atmosphere has awakened them, but the process repeats itself there with four creatures coming to life. Arnaldo discovers that the globe isn't a model of Krx, but is the planet itself. Scientists had decided to shrink Krx in size to eliminate the problems it created, but it had drifted off in space before the process was complete.

Stan Starkman, Henry Boltinoff

Cover

Bernard Baily

Editor

Jack Schiff

Associate editors

Murray Boltinoff, George Kashdan

Cover letters

Ira Schnapp

Characters

Arnald Arnaldo
Doctor Kura
Dr. Floogle
Dr. Rocket
Gel
Gur
James Blane
Lark
Luga
Manduu
Odar
Professor Bok
Professor Lugo Berks
Professor Sog
Rab
Thor Larkin
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