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Comedy Jack Sharkey. Charcters: 4 male, 8 female Interior Set This hilarious send up of the horror story genre has an ancient castle, creaking doors, a mad scientist, his misshapen assistant, a grim housekeeper, secret laboratory, shrieks from the depths of the cellar, disappearing villagers, an incredibly stalwart and stupid hero of sterling character, the scientist's absolutely dopey daughter, and so many laughs you'll lose count. The setting (designed for both proscenium and in the round performances) is the parlor of Castle Von Blitzen in the Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania. Where is the Baron Von Blitzen's secret laboratory? That's what the terrified villagers would like to know and when the scientist and his assistant convert the innocent parlor into a fiend's experimental station, the ingenuity of the set provokes both laughter and applause.

A zany tale of a warmhearted girl who mistakes a telephone repairman for a burglar tries to save him from his life of crime and ends up having to pretend he's her husband - dismaying her strait-laced sister's evangelist fiance. This play had critics and audiences cheering both at the Maryland and the Chicago premiere productions.

Peter Colton a bank official unwittingly comes home with the loot from a bank robbery masterminded by Willy Nicholas his superior at the bank. Willy frantic to retrieve the money enlists Peter's services to help him find it with the help of Victoria Wickey Peter's secretary. Meantime Laurel Colton Peter's daughter has found the loot and erroneously supposes it is her father who has robbed the bank. So she enlists the aid of her boyfriend Carlos Ortega whose uncle is a retired forger of passports to help her father flee the country. But the arrival of Sheila Mahoney a travel agent who is helping Peter plan a surprise vacation to Rio for Laurel complicates matters even further since she thinks Victoria is married to Willy and planning a honeymoon in Rio for the two of them. By the time Victoria shows up with the passports for the surprise vacation Willy shows up with his passport and Victoria's for a quick escape and Carlos shows up with a pair of forged passports to help Laurel and Peter escape. Everybody is in an ungodly mess the police may close in any minute all concerned are fearfully mistaken about everyone else's motives and loyalties and doom shame and prison stare them all in the face.

Since concert pianist Duncan Latimer and his wife Ellen a famous soap opera star lead impeccable lives their PR lady has no qualms over having a reporter from a scandal magazine interview them. But just before he arrives so does Duncan's old Navy buddy and Ellen's former lover from her literally messy past as well as an extra wife Duncan forgot to tell anyone about. It's crazy and comical confusion all the way.

Jack Sharkey Full Length, Comedy Characters: 2 male, 2 female Interior Set Take a husband, wife, lover and friend, add a strange lamp, a gun and a rubber chicken plus a party that begins at 8 p.m., then again at 8 p.m. and then again at 8 p.m. and you have this nightmare comedy." Four people find themselves reliving one horrible hour over and over as themselves, as Japanese, as British aristocrats, as gangsters, and almost anything else you can think of. Camille is giving the party. Don shows up in a jealous funk about his wife, Alice, whom he suspects of seeing another man. When Alice and Ben have arrived, it turns out their relationship is innocent. But by the time Don realizes this he has already shot Ben, Alice and even Camille. Camille wishes that things might have turned out differently and that is what happens. All concerned find themselves back at the party's beginning again and again doomed to live that same hour over and over again until they get it right. Is it all an accident? Or is their dilemma part of someone's fiendish plan? A labyrinth of hilarity exits to a shocker of an ending.

In this riotous showbiz comedy a producer his secretary and associates try to re-write an epic drama by a neophyte playwright into a broad farce.

A thunderstorm! The lights go out! An agonized voice! A pistol shot! The lights come up! A blonde in black lace stands over the dead man holding a bloody dagger! The detective examines the body and announces 'Hes been strangled!' This is but the opening of one of the most astounding and hilarious murder mysteries ever staged. Every clue is a lulu and the plot twists furiously. The final solution involves the most bizarre motive ever conceived. The delightful evening of mayhem gallops madly about the stage and will leave your audience breathless with surprise and laughter. The mystery is top-notch the characters marvelous and the comedy explosive!

David Tuttle is moonlighting as a department store Santa so that he can buy his wife a fur for Christmas. He tells her he's working late at the office but she finds out he isn't at the office. A suspected other woman hypnotism the notorious Santa burglar Kris Kreigle and his gun-toting fiancee and a confused policeman add up to a rollicking tale that is hilarious Christmas entertainment any time of year.

An outrageous concoction of wild warm and lightning-paced hilarity that is perfect for the entire family.

Edited by H. L. Gold; ‘Galaxy Science Fiction’ hit the scene in 1950 and quickly became the leading science fiction magazine of its time. Galaxy gave a home to writers that didn''t fit into Astounding and F&SF, and readers rejoiced. In this first ‘Galaxy Science Fiction Super Pack’ we bring you more than five hundred pages of fiction. These are the stories that helped Galaxy Magazine carve it''s name on the Mount Rushmore of science fiction. The include: ‘Doorstep’ by Keith Laumer; ‘The Chasers’ by Daniel F. Galouye; ‘Blueblood’ by Jim Harmon; ‘Bad Memory’ by Patrick Fahy; ‘Beach Scene’ by Marshall King; ‘The Reluctant Heroes’ by Frank M. Robinson; ‘Kreativity for Kats’ by Fritz Leiber; ‘Perfect Answer’ by L. J. Stecher, Jr., Dumbwaiter’ by James Stamers; ‘The Ignoble Savages’ by Evelyn E. Smith; ‘Angel''s Egg’ by Edgar Pangborn; ‘Survival Type’ by J.F. Bone; ‘Misbegotten Missionary’ by Isaac Asimov; ‘The Business; ‘as Usual’ by Jack Sharkey; ‘No Substitutions’ by Jim Harmon; ‘Prime Difference’ by Alan E. Nourse; ‘Delay in Transit’ by F. L. Wallace; ‘My Lady Greensleeves’ by Frederik Pohl; ‘A Little Journey’ by Ray Bradbury; ‘Med Ship Man’ by Murray Leinster; ‘Spoken for’ by William Morrison; ‘A Pail of Air’ by Fritz Leiber; ‘Contagion’ by Katherine MacLEAN; ‘Pen Pal’ by Milton Lesser; ‘Delayed Action’ by Charles Vincent De Vet; ‘... and it Comes out Here’ by Lester del Rey; and ‘The Old Die Rich’ by H. L. Gold.

Giving Certain Powers the business for a change would be a joy—but it must not backfire—and here at last was the perfect recoilless diddle!

Edited by H. L. Gold, ''Galaxy Science Fiction'' hit the scene in 1950 and quickly became the leading science fiction magazine of its time. ‘Galaxy’ gave a home to writers that didn''t fit into ‘Astounding’ and ‘F&SF,’ and readers rejoiced. In this first ''Galaxy Science Fiction Super Pack'' we bring you more than five hundred pages of fiction. These are the stories that helped ‘Galaxy Magazine’ carve it''s name on the Mount Rushmore of science fiction. This volume includes ‘Dream World’ by R. A. Lafferty; ‘The Imitation of Earth’ by James Stamers; ‘Amateur in Chancery’ by George O. Smith; ‘The Lamps of the Angels’ by Richard Sabia; ‘Conditionally Human’ by Walter M. Miller, Jr.; ‘Dawningsburgh’ by Wallace West; ‘Extracts from the Galactick Almanack’ by Laurence Janifer; ‘Breakdown’ by Herbert D. Kastle; ‘A Matter of Protocol’ by Jack Sharkey; ‘Charity Case’ by Jim Harmon; ‘The Rag and Bone Men’ by Algis Budrys; ‘Pick a Crime’ by Richard R. Smith; ‘Shatter the Wall’ by Sydney Van Scyoc; ‘Always a Qurono’ by Jim Harmon; ‘Subject to Change’ by Ron Goulart; ‘Sales Talk’ by Con Blomberg; ‘The Big Engine’ by Fritz Leiber; ‘Accidental Flight’ by F. L. Wallace; ‘The World That Couldn''t Be’ by Clifford D. Simak; ‘Solid Solution’ by James Stamers; ‘With These Hands’ by C. M. Kornbluth; ‘A Fall of Glass’ by Stanley R. Lee; ‘Sordman the Protector’ by Tom Purdom; ‘Jamieson’ by Bill Doede; ‘The Music Master of Babylon’ by Edgar Pangborn; and ‘The Defenders by Philip K. Dick.

First Contact was always dangerous—but usually only to the man involved!

Jery Delvin had a most unusual talent. He could detect the flaws in any scheme almost on sight—even where they had eluded the best brains in the ad agency where he worked. So when the Chief of World Security told him that he had been selected as the answer to the Solar System’s greatest mystery, Jery assumed that it was because of his mental agility.But when he got to Mars to find out why fifteen boys had vanished from a spaceship in mid-space, he found out that even his quick mind needed time to pierce the maze of out-of-this-world double-dealing. For Jery had become a walking bomb, and when he set himself off, it would be the end of the whole puzzle of THE SECRET MARTIANS—with Jery as the first to go!