Strange Tales
#97
(June 1962)
Marvel,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1962-03-08
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Vista Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
MC
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
Includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Some information supplied by Tom Lammers and the Timely/Atlas discussion list. On-sale date from 1962 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
When a Planet Dies!
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
-
in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #20 (1965 ?), #135 ([circa 1974 - 1975]), #201 ([circa 1984 - 1985]) -
in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #2 (2017)
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![Cover Thumbnail for Strange Tales (1951 series) #97 [British]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/952/w100/952198.jpg?9189619121636671634)
When a Planet Dies!
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (signed as Kirby)
- Inks
- Dick Ayers (signed as Ayers)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Ray Holloway ?
- Job Number
- X-646
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Rackozo Roor; Johnn; Aletha
- Synopsis
- Humans are forced underground by the Sun’s death. An approaching planet alarms many, but humans vote against destroying it: saving Earth as the new planet, really a sun, thaws the dying world.
- Reprints
- in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #56
- in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #25
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #20 (1965 ?)
- in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #112 ([circa 1975 - 1976])
- in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #22 (May 1977) [altered to include Dr. Druid]
- in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #139 ([circa 1979 - 1980])
-
in La Mujer Araña (Novedades, 1982 series) #23 (Agosto 26 de 1982) - in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #2 (2017)
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Indexer Notes
Job number revealed on original art, Info per Nick Caputo: http://www.romitaman.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=21398&artistid=921
The third, fourth and sixth pages include advertisements for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series).
Mystery Pupil
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Joe Maneely (illustration)
- Inks
- Joe Maneely (illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- K-382
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Colin; Mr. Plum; Gertrude
- Synopsis
- A dull teacher earns accolades by accidentally helping capture a Martian criminal.
- Reprints
- from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #52 (October 1956)
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Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
The Madness!
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (signed as Kirby)
- Inks
- Dick Ayers (signed as Ayers)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Ray Holloway ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Dan Cooper
- Synopsis
- A man is transported by a mist to the 16th century, where he is locked up as a madman. He escapes and is transported with the asylum keeper back to the present, where the keeper is taken for mad!
- Reprints
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #88
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #67
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #24 (1964 ?)
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #134 ([circa 1972 - 1973])
- in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #20 (January 1977)
- in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #2 (2017)
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Indexer Notes
The second and fourth pages include advertisements for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series), the last page includes an advertisement for Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series).
Goodbye to Linda Brown
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed as
Stan Lee [early- to mid-career]) - Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed as
S. Ditko) - Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed as S. Ditko)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Linda Brown; Aunt May; Uncle Ben
- Synopsis
- A girl in a wheelchair living with her aunt and uncle begins sleepwalking. In her sleep, she wheels herself underwater. The couple are sad...but they knew their mermaid ward would one day go home.
- Reprints
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #57
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #34
- in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #83 (September 1977)
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #203 ([circa 1983 - 1984])
- in Marvel Selects: Spider-Man (Marvel, 2000 series) #5 (May 2000)
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in Spiderman: Stan Lee y Steve Ditko (Planeta DeAgostini, 2002 series) #2 (Enero 2003) - in Marvel Visionaries: Steve Ditko (Marvel, 2005 series) (2005)
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in Die Spinne (Panini Deutschland, 2009 series) #51½ (2009) - in Marvel Gold. El Asombroso Spiderman: Poder y Responsabilidad (Panini España, 2014 series) (Abril 2014)
- in Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #2 (2019)
- in Marvel Visionaries: Steve Ditko (Marvel, 2019 series) (2019)
- in The Amazing Spider-Man (Penguin Classics Marvel Collection) (Penguin Random House, 2022 series) (2022)
- in Biblioteca Marvel (Panini España, 2022 series) #4 - El Asombroso Spiderman 1 ([Enero] 2023)
- in Biblioteca Marvel: El Asombroso Spiderman (Panini España, 2023 series) #1 (enero 2023)
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Indexer Notes
The third page includes an advertisement for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series), the last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko.
This story is a retelling of "The Sea Waits for Me!", drawn by Dick Ayers, from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #43 (March 1956).
Ditko evidentially used Aunt May and Uncle Ben here, as reference for Spider-Man's folks when they appeared two months later. They are nearly identical, only slightly younger.
Behind the Dreadful Door!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Gene Colan
- Inks
- Gene Colan
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Joshua Carstairs; Derek Weems
- Synopsis
- A painter breaks into a room which he thinks is the source of a famous artist's inspiration. It contains supernatural beings that model for the artist, who take the intruder as their own model.
- Reprints
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #34, #67, #134 ([circa 1972 - 1973])
- in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #21 (March 1977) [altered to include Dr. Druid]
- in El Asombroso Hombre Araña (Novedades, 1980 series) #97 (3 de marzo de 1982)
- in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #26 (2015)
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Indexer Notes
The second and fourth pages include advertisements for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series).
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
When a Planet Dies!
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1.
When a Planet Dies!
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2.
Mystery Pupil
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3.
The Madness!
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4.
Goodbye to Linda Brown
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5.
Behind the Dreadful Door!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Bill Borre
- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Ethan Hoddes
- Lee Lines
- Mike Nielsen
- Gregory Roe
- Jim Van Dore
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