Strange Tales #90

(November 1961)

Orggo...the Unconquerable! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Dick Ayers

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

V-364

Content Information

Genre:

monsters

Characters:

Orrgo (introduction); Jo-Jo

Synopsis:

An alien race with immense telepathic and telekinetic powers send one of their kind to conquer Earth. He easily defeats the police and army and freezes Washington, DC in a block of ice, but is killed by a gorilla while resting because he only prepared defences against humans.

Reprinted:

• in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #2 (January 1971)
• in Monster Menace (Marvel, 1993 series) #4 (March 1994)

Indexer Notes

Orrgo or a character based on him next appears in Defenders (Marvel, 2001 series) #9 (November 2001).

Special Sale (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Joe Maneely

Inks:

Joe Maneely

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Job Number:

J-932

Content Information

Genre:

occult

Characters:

Marvin Kale; Paula Kale

Synopsis:

When a husband goes shopping he finds a new cleaning fluid that makes anything better than new, even him.

Reprinted:

• from Strange Tales of the Unusual (Marvel, 1955 series) #5 (August 1956)

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration.

A Thousand Years Later... (Table of Contents)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stan Lee

Pencils:

Steve Ditko

Inks:

Steve Ditko

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

V-365

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Adam; Eve

Synopsis:

A scientist prolongs his life for a thousand years, outliving all his friends as Earth becomes overpopulated. When Earth is abandoned he stays behind with one young woman, leaving only the two of them, Adam and Eve, to restart civilization.

Reprinted:

• in Chamber of Darkness (Marvel, 1969 series) #8

Indexer Notes

Narrated in the first person. This story is a retelling of "I Am the Last Man on Earth!" drawn by Don Heck, from Strange Worlds (Marvel, 1968 series) #1 (December 1958).

The Inhuman! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Don Heck

Inks:

Don Heck

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

V-366

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

X-35

Synopsis:

In a war against robots, the robots try to find a way to break the human defenses by sending a robot spy disguised as a human. The spy leads them into a trap, and they discover that their spy was a human disguised as a robot.

Reprinted:

• in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #2 (January 1971)

Germ Warfare (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Paul Reinman

Inks:

Paul Reinman

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

V-367

Content Information

Genre:

monsters

Characters:

John Marshall; Molitis germ

Synopsis:

A medical researcher on a boat enlarges a germ to human size, causing it to attack him and hijack the boat. The germ lands on an island in order to make an army of enlarged germs, but an atomic test destroys it.

Reprinted:

• in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #6 (December 1966)