Strange Tales
#67
(February 1959)
Marvel,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1958-10-02
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Chipiden Publishing Corp.
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
Includes 10 pages of paid advertisements (pages 2, 9, 15, 19, 25, 27, 33-36 of comic including inside front cover, inside back cover and back cover); pages of comic not numbered. Some information supplied by Dr. Michael J. Vassallo,Tom Lammers and the Atlas/Timely discussion list. On-sale date from 1958 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
Trapped Between Two Worlds
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Joe Sinnott (signed as Joe Sinnott)
- Inks
- Joe Sinnott (signed as Joe Sinnott)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Characters
- Jeff Raye
- Reprints
in Indexer Notes
Jeff Raye's female companion does not appear in the story within.
Trapped Between Two Worlds!
comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- T-99
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Jeff Raye; Butch; Noki
- Synopsis
- A scientist working on a matter transporting device accidentally transports himself to a distant planet of warlike aliens. They read his mind in order to use his device for conquest. He steals back their record of his thoughts and escapes back to Earth, where he destroys his machine to prevent anyone using it to invade.
- Reprints
-
in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #91, #31 (1964 ?), #225 ([circa 1984 - 1985]) -
in Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Story is pages 3-8 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 6).
I Seek the Sea Serpent
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Don Heck (signed as Don Heck)
- Inks
- Don Heck (signed as Don Heck)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-116
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Prof. Efrem Marsh
- Synopsis
- A scientist tracks down a sea serpent, but the crew of his ship panics and kills it. When they try to recover the creature's body they discover that it was an alien trying to communicate with humans after crash landing on Earth centuries ago.
- Reprints
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #20 (1964 ?), #156 ([circa 1976 - 1977]) [black and white]
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Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person. Story is pages 10-14 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
I Was the Invisible Man!
comic story / 7 pages
- Job Number
- T-97
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Adam Clayton
- Synopsis
- A scientist uses a device that makes the particles of a living body move at the speed of light, rendering him invisible to the eye. He conducts a series of stunts in order to build up a name for himself so he can them go public and cash in. After forty days he glances into the mirror and realizes that he has aged forty years during that time due to a side effect. He realizes with the little time left to him that he can no longer use his knowledge for selfish gain.
- Reprints
- in Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #2 ([September] 1963)
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #20 (1964 ?)
- in Giant-Size Man-Thing (Marvel, 1974 series) #1 (August 1974)
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #156 ([circa 1976 - 1977]) [black and white]
- in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #1 (2017)
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Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person. Adam Clayton was mentioned in Marvel Universe (1998 series) which places this story in Marvel continuity. Story is pages 16-18, 20-23 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 7).
Discovery
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Joe Maneely
- Inks
- Joe Maneely
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- 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)
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Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 24, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
The Man Who Never Was!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Carl Burgos
- Inks
- Carl Burgos
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-114
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Prof. Philip Atherton; Eric Bohn
- Synopsis
- A scientist's assistant uses a time machine to travel to the past in order to find a pirate's treasure and get rich. While in the past he is attacked by the pirates, and unknowingly kills one of his own ancestors, erasing his own existence.
- Reprints
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #66
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #20 (1964 ?)
- in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #121 ([circa 1976 - 1977]), #153 ([circa 1981 - 1982])
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Indexer Notes
Narrated in the second person. Pencil and ink credit of Bob Forgione changed based on information from Tom Lammers and the Atlas/Timely discussion list. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Trapped Between Two Worlds
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1.
Trapped Between Two Worlds!
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2.
I Seek the Sea Serpent
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3.
I Was the Invisible Man!
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4.
Discovery
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5.
The Man Who Never Was!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Bill Borre
- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Merlin Haas
- Ethan Hoddes
- Jon Ingersoll
- machinal jocelyn
- Mike Nielsen
- Gregory Roe
- Jim Van Dore
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