Strange Tales
#71
(October 1959)
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1959-06-05
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Zenith Publishing Corp.
- Editing
- Stan Lee (credited) (editor)
Issue Notes
I Dared to Defy Merlin's... Black Magic!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed as S. DITKO)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed as S. DITKO)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Merlin
- Synopsis
- An American businessman scoffs at a shopowner's claim that one of his books was Merlin's diary, until a terrifying vision of Merlin turns his hair white. As he runs from the shop, the shopkeeper thinks that he must remember not to leave his diary out.
- Reprints
-
in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #54 - in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #17 (No Date [circa 1963])
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in Chamber of Darkness (Marvel, 1969 series) #6 (August 1970) -
in Atomos (Arédit-Artima, 1968 series) #20 - L'empreinte de Madame Atomos (2ème partie) (3ème trimestre 1973) [N&B [B&W]] - in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #156 ([circa 1975 - 1976]), #190 ([circa 1979 - 1980])
- in Doctor Who Weekly (Marvel UK, 1979 series) #34 (5th June 1980)
- in Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (2019)
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Indexer Notes
This story could conceivably be in Marvel continuity, in which case this might be any of the three Merlins. Job number unknown according to Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 3-7 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
The Disappearance
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Gene Colan (illustration)
- Inks
- Gene Colan (illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original editor)
- Job Number
- H-320
- Genre
- domestic
- Characters
- Jasper Milty; Tom Milty
- Synopsis
- An old man disgruntled with society becomes rich by discovering uranium.
- Reprints
- from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #41 (March 1956)
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Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
I Am the Man Who Will... Destroy Your World!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Don Heck
- Inks
- Don Heck
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Ray Holloway ?
- Job Number
- T-372
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Mool [Ralph Masters]; John; Anne
- Synopsis
- An alien emperor of an immortal race comes to Earth disguised as a human to decide whether or not to order an invasion. He is impressed with the humans' decency and falls in love with a human girl, calling off the invasion and giving up immortality to stay with her.
- Reprints
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #60
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #17 (No Date [circa 1963])
- in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #1 (November 1970) which is reprinted
-
in Fear (Yaffa / Page, 1970 ? series) #2 (1979) - in Adventure into Fear Omnibus (Marvel, 2020 series) (2020)
- in Super Giant (K. G. Murray, 1973 series) #[nn] ([1973] ?)
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #156 ([circa 1975 - 1976]), #190 ([circa 1979 - 1980])
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Indexer Notes
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 10-14 of comic (first page of story not numbered, then pages numbered 2 to 5).
When the Saucer Strikes!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Carl Wessler ?
- Pencils
- Paul Reinman (signed as
Paul Reinman) - Inks
- Paul Reinman (signed as Paul Reinman)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Ray Holloway ?
- Job Number
- T-376
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Joe; Charlie
- Synopsis
- A airline pilot is nearly hit by a flying saucer and must bank suddenly to avoid it. The passengers where mostly asleep, and the one who was awake says that he saw nothing...because he's really a Martian tourist and the saucer came to pick him up.
- Reprints
- in Forbidden Worlds (Thorpe & Porter, 1950 ? series) #6
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #16
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #6 (November 1970)
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #147 ([circa 1974 - 1975])
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Indexer Notes
Possible Wessler script per Nick Caputo from information in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 26, No.4, April 2015. This may be a Wessler inventory story originally titled "Saucer Scare".
Narrated. Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 16-18, 20 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4).
I Fought the Man Who Couldn't Be Killed!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- T-373
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Duke Jordan
- Synopsis
- A criminal escapes from prison after 10 years and robs a warehouse. He is found by a police officer with superhuman powers, and is surprised to learn that the police now only recruit robots.
- Reprints
-
in Le Monstre de Frankenstein (Editions Héritage, 1973 series) #3 - in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #17
- in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #1 (November 1970) which is reprinted
- in Fantastic Four (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #31 (Décembre 1973)
- in Fear (Yaffa / Page, 1970 ? series) #2 (1979)
- in Adventure into Fear Omnibus (Marvel, 2020 series) (2020) which is reprinted
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #150 ([circa 1974 - 1975])
- in Climax Adventure Comic (K. G. Murray, 1962 ? series) #19 ([April 1976] ?)
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #184 ([circa 1979 - 1980])
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Indexer Notes
Possible Wessler script per Nick Caputo from information in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 26, No.4, April 2015. A Wessler inventory story was originally titled "The Man That Couldn't Die"
Set in 1969. Pencil credit, ink credit, and job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Story is pages 21-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4).
I Am the Man Without a Face!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ?
- Pencils
- Joe Sinnott (signed as Joe Sinnott)
- Inks
- Joe Sinnott (signed as Joe Sinnott)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Ray Holloway ?
- Job Number
- T-371
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Rufus Watkins
- Synopsis
- A bigot rounds up some thugs to don black hoods and drive some harmless gypsies out of town. One of the gypsies curses him, and he is never able to remove his hood for the rest of his life.
- Reprints
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #70
- in Forbidden Worlds (Thorpe & Porter, 1950 ? series) #6
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #17 (No Date [circa 1963])
- in Where Creatures Roam (Marvel, 1970 series) #2 (September 1970)
- in Super Giant (K. G. Murray, 1973 series) #8 ([March 1974] ?)
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in Acção e Mistério - Edição Especial (Palirex, 1977 ? series) #3 - Os Monstros ([1977]) [black & white], #3 - Os Monstros ([1977]) [black & white]
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Indexer Notes
This story is a retelling of "Men in Black" by Stan Lee and John Romita, Sr. from Menace (Marvel, 1953 series) #3 (May 1953). The hoods are more clearly a reference to the Ku Klux Klan than in the original (they are not randomly chosen disguises, but something the bigot's "pappy left me when he died").
Job number from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Lee is credited as writer on the basis of his authorship of the original and later retelling. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4, last page not numbered).
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0.
I Defied the Black Magic!!
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1.
I Dared to Defy Merlin's... Black Magic!
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2.
The Disappearance
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3.
I Am the Man Who Will... Destroy Your World!
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4.
When the Saucer Strikes!
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5.
I Fought the Man Who Couldn't Be Killed!
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6.
I Am the Man Without a Face!
- Bill Borre
- Chris Boyko
- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Gregory Fischer
- Merlin Haas
- Gary Henderson
- Ethan Hoddes
- machinal jocelyn
- Mike Nielsen
- Gregory Roe
- Per Sandell
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
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