Strange Tales #1 [Direct]
(April 1987)

Marvel, 1987 Series
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Volume
2
Price
0.75 USD; 0.95 CAD; 0.40 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1986-12-09
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel [standalone or inside vertical box]
Editing
Carl Potts (credited) (editor); Jim Shooter (credited) (editor in chief)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #107.
This issue has variants:

[First Collectors Item issue!] (Table of Contents)

Cloak and Dagger; Doctor Strange / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Carl Potts ? (signed as Carlbret); Bret Blevins ? (signed as Carlbret)
Inks
Bret Blevins (signed as Blevins)
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
superhero; fantasy-supernatural
Characters
Cloak [Tyrone Johnson]; Dagger [Tandy Bowen]; Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]
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Cover Thumbnail for Strange Tales (Marvel, 1987 series) #1 [Direct] Cover Thumbnail for Strange Tales (1987 series) #1 [Newsstand]
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Daddy! (Table of Contents: 1)

Cloak and Dagger / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Script
Bill Mantlo (credited)
Pencils
Bret Blevins (credited)
Inks
Bret Blevins (credited)
Colors
Christie Scheele (credited as Max Scheele)
Letters
Ken Bruzenak (credited)
First Line of Dialogue or Text
The Ganges night-ferry forges slowly upriver...
Genre
superhero
Characters
Cloak [Tyrone Johnson] (origin in flashback); Dagger [Tandy Bowen] (origin in flashback); Lord of Light (Dagger's dad, first appearance)
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Indexer Notes

Story continues from Cloak and Dagger (Marvel, 1985 series) #11.

And Have Not Charity... (Table of Contents: 2)

Doctor Strange / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Script
Peter Gillis
Pencils
Chris Warner
Inks
Randy Emberlin
Colors
Bob Sharen
Letters
Jim Novak
Genre
superhero; fantasy-supernatural
Characters
Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Rintrah; Topaz; Sarah Wolfe: Wong; Clea
Synopsis
Topaz is revealed as an empath.
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Indexer Notes

Story continues from Doctor Strange (Marvel, 1974 series) #81.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [First Collectors Item issue!]
    Cloak and Dagger; Doctor Strange
  2. 1. Daddy!
    Cloak and Dagger
  3. 2. And Have Not Charity...
    Doctor Strange
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Peter Croome
  • Michael Hoskin
  • Lou Mazzella
  • Darrel McCann
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Ramon Schenk
  • Jim Van Dore
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