Strange Tales
#68
(April 1959)
Marvel,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1958-12-02
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Zenith 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 1959 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
Evacuate Earth!
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
-
in Cuentos de Brujas (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1951 series) #107 -
in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #30 (1964 ?), #173 ([circa 1977 - 1978]), #210 ([circa 1983 - 1984]) -
in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #1 (2017)
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Last Warning--Evacuate Earth!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Joe Sinnott (signed as Joe Sinnott)
- Inks
- Joe Sinnott (signed as Joe Sinnott)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-172
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Makka
- Synopsis
- A gaseous alien arrives on Earth to warn people to evacuate before its race invades. It attempts to communicate with humans telepathically, but they disregard his warning as madness or a trick. Convinced that the humans' lack of fear is due to some impenetrable defence, the alien leaves and warns its people to call off the invasion.
- Reprints
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #74
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #30 (1964 ?), #173 ([circa 1977 - 1978]), #210 ([circa 1983 - 1984]) [Black and white.]
-
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the second person. Story is pages 3-7 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
Mystery Trip
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Joe Maneely
- Inks
- Joe Maneely
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- K-266
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Tommy Pidgeon; Goober Jones; Rosie; Uncle Pete
- Synopsis
- Tommy's uncle returns from a space journey needing to re-learn how to walk on earth instead of floating.
- Reprints
- from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #46 (August 1956)
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Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
The Creatures from the Bottomless Pit!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed as Ditko)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed as Ditko)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- T-150
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Serge Kemplet; Kloto
- Synopsis
- A man descends in a bathysphere into a pit so deep that he is surprised to find a waterless cavern beneath it occupied by elves banished long ago by a wizard. They stole the magic ball that kept Atlantis safe from the waves and so a sorcerer cast a spell that would send them to the deepest pit in the Earth. They offer to make the man ruler of humans if he returns them to the surface would. He agrees, but then has second thoughts about unleashing their mischief upon unsuspecting humanity and destroys the bathysphere, accepting underground exile in the process.
- Reprints
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #68
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #30 (1964 ?), #173 ([circa 1977 - 1978]), #210 ([circa 1983 - 1984]) [Black and white.]
- in Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (2019)
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Indexer Notes
Story is pages 10-14 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
Test Pilot!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- T-168
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Ralph Preston (only appearance)
- Synopsis
- A rocketship test pilot in the year 2089 takes an experimental rocket on a test flight. He faces an oxygen leak caused by a collision, alien raiders and other hazards before returning safely to Earth.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the second person. Story is pages 14-16, 18 of comic (pages of story misnumbered 1, 2, 3, 5).
Next Stop--Mars!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- T-176
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Shorty; Walter Lanson
- Synopsis
- A short child mocked for his height takes comfort from his one friend and his love of airplanes. He is rejected by the air force because of his height, but when his friend designs an experimental rocket that can only be piloted by a short man he becomes the first man on Mars.
- Reprints
- 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])
-
Indexer Notes
Story is pages 21-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4).
Trapped In Tomorrow!
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- T-171
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Willy Phelps
- Synopsis
- A man spends twenty years building a time machine in order to use knowledge of the future to enrich himself. He travels to 2010 and memorizes stock market and horse race information from the newspaper archives. When he tries to return to the past, however, he finds that he accidentally left his time machine in a futuristic garbage processor, and it has been disintegrated.
- Reprints
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #74
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #30 (1964 ?), #173 ([circa 1977 - 1978]), #210 ([circa 1983 - 1984]) [Black and white.]
-
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the second person. This story is retold in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #9 (May 1960) as "Time on My Hands!" drawn by John Forte. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Evacuate Earth!
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1.
Last Warning--Evacuate Earth!
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2.
Mystery Trip
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3.
The Creatures from the Bottomless Pit!
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4.
Test Pilot!
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5.
Next Stop--Mars!
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6.
Trapped In Tomorrow!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Bill Borre
- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Peter Croome
- Ethan Hoddes
- machinal jocelyn
- Michel Maillot
- Mike Nielsen
- Gregory Roe
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
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