Strange Tales
#105
(February 1963)
Marvel,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1962-11-08
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Vista Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
MC
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date is the publication date reported in U. S. Copyright Office filings. Includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
The Return of the Wizard!
Human Torch / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Wizard
- Reprints
-
in Los 4 Fantásticos (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1962 series) #25 -
in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #65 -
in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #7 (March 1967) [1/4 page] which is reprinted - in The Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #1 (2007)
- in The Mighty Thor Omnibus (Marvel, 2010 series) #1 (2010)
-
in Marvel Gold. El Asombroso Spiderman: Poder y Responsabilidad (Panini España, 2014 series) (Abril 2014) - in The Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus (Marvel, 2007 series) #1 (2022)
- in Essential Human Torch (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 ([October] 2003) [black & white]
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Human Torch (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([September] 2006)
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Human Torch (Marvel, 2014 series) #1 (2014)
- in The Human Torch & The Thing: Strange Tales - The Complete Collection (Marvel, 2018 series) (2018)
-
![Cover Thumbnail for Strange Tales (1951 series) #105 [British]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1432/w100/1432699.jpg?-2218156743559150465)
The Return of the Wizard!
Human Torch / comic story / 13 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (credited) (script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (credited)
- Inks
- Dick Ayers (credited)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek (credited as Art Simek)
- Job Number
- X-8
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Wizard [Bentley Wittman]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards] (cameo); Thing [Ben Grimm] (cameo)
- Synopsis
- In prison, The Wizard becomes a model prisoner—just so he can become a trustee, work in the hospital, have access to chemicals...and break jail! The police soon have him surrounded in his house, but can't get in because of its defenses. He challenges the Torch to a battle to decide who is the better man. Against Sue's advice Johnny accepts the challenge, and he does pretty well until Sue shows up to "help" him. Thanks to her, he's caught, and both are almost killed in a bomb blast. But Johnny manages to free them both, get rid of the bomb, and corral the "superior intellect".
- Reprints
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #65
-
in Strange Tales (Horwitz, 1963 series) #1 (1963) - in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #7 (March 1967)
-
in Fakkelen og Jernmannen (Serieforlaget / Se-Bladene / Stabenfeldt, 1968 series) #2/1968 (1968) -
in I Fantastici Quattro (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #8 (13 Luglio 1971) - in The Human Torch (Marvel, 1974 series) #5 (May 1975) [Minus 1 page. Reprints pages 1-11; page 12, panels 1-4 & 6; page 13, panel 1, cropped at the bottom.] which is reprinted
- in The Human Torch (Yaffa / Page, 1977 series) #2 (1978) [Minus 1 page. Reprints pages 1-11; page 12, panels 1-4 & 6; page 13, panel 1, cropped at the bottom. Black & white.]
- in Essential Human Torch (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 ([October] 2003) [black & white]
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Human Torch (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 ([September] 2006)
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Human Torch (Marvel, 2014 series) #1 (2014)
- in The Human Torch & The Thing: Strange Tales - The Complete Collection (Marvel, 2018 series) (2018)
-
Indexer Notes
This is the second appearance of The Wizard (who last appears in issue #102 (November 1962). This is the first time a "Human Torch" villain returned; Wizard would go on to a very long career, mostly with "The Frightful Four". He next appears in issue #110 (July 1963), where he teams with Paste-Pot Pete for the first time.
Discovery
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- K-479
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Chauncey; Zeke; Muscles Magee
- Synopsis
- A scrawny man is given a magic candy bar that confers great strength, but he discovers that he already posesses more strength than he suspects.
- Reprints
- from Astonishing (Marvel, 1951 series) #54 (October 1956)
-
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
Man Alone!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
- Pencils
- Don Heck
- Inks
- Don Heck
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg ?
- Letters
- Ray Holloway
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Fate; Robinson Crusoe
- Synopsis
- A man has recurring dreams of solitary confinement and goes to sea to escape this fate. He is shipwrecked and left alone on a desert island, unaware that this is the solitude he was destined for.
- Reprints
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #32, #87
- in Strange Tales (Horwitz, 1963 series) #1 (1963)
- in Pow! (IPC, 1967 series) #49 (23 December 1967) [splash page used as cover]
- in Edderkoppen (Serieforlaget / Se-Bladene / Stabenfeldt, 1968 series) #5/1968 ([mai] 1968) [pages 1-3], #6/1968 ([juni] 1968) [pages 4-5]
- in Thor e i Vendicatori (Editoriale Corno, 1975 series) #123 (30 Dicembre 1975)
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #171 ([circa 1977 - 1978]), #245 ([circa 1988 - 1989])
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Indexer Notes
Letters credit by Barry Pearl.
The Supernatural!
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- A house appears to be magically dismantled by wisps of smoke, but it is only a girl playing with her dollhouse while her father smokes.
- Reprints
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #87
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #32
- in Strange Tales (Horwitz, 1963 series) #1 (1963)
- in Fakkelen og Jernmannen (Serieforlaget / Se-Bladene / Stabenfeldt, 1968 series) #2/1968 (1968)
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #171 ([circa 1977 - 1978])
- in Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #2 (2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Letters credit by Barry Pearl.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Return of the Wizard!
Human Torch -
1.
The Return of the Wizard!
Human Torch -
2.
Discovery
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3.
Man Alone!
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4.
The Supernatural!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Bill Borre
- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Robert K. S. Croy, Sr.
- Mark Gordon
- Merlin Haas
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Ethan Hoddes
- Henry R. Kujawa
- R. S. Martin
- Lou Mazzella
- Darrel McCann
- Jim Van Dore
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