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1September 1953
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Ripley's Believe It Or Not Magazine #1

Harvey · September 1953 · on sale 1953-07

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Identification plate

Series
Ripley's Believe It Or Not Magazine (Harvey, 1953 series)
Issue
#1
Publication date
September 1953
Key date
1953-09-00
On-sale date
1953-07
Indicia publisher
Harvey Publications
Price
$0.10
Pages
36

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0-cover1pencils: Al Avison; inks: Al Avison; letters: Joe Rosen
1-table of contents1script: Leon Harvey, Doug Storer
2A Vision Saved Two Shipscomic story5script: Howard Nostrand; pencils: Howard Nostrand; inks: Howard Nostrand; letters: Joe Rosen
3Factless Factstext story1letters: typeset
4Seeing's Not Believingactivity0.5letters: Joe Rosen
5Doggone, if it Isn't Truecomic story0.5
6History Was Changed in a Chess-Gamecomic story5pencils: Al Avison; inks: Al Avison; letters: Joe Rosen
8Africa Exploredcomic story5script: Robert Ripley; pencils: Robert Ripley; inks: Robert Ripley; letters: John Duffy
9Fire-Proof Mantext story1letters: typeset
10The Bomb That Bounced Backcomic story5script: Bob Powell; pencils: Bob Powell; inks: Bob Powell; letters: Joe Rosen

Plus 0.5 pages of advertisements and other matter across 1 sequence, as published.

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