Strange Tales
#88
(September 1961)
Marvel,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1961-06-08
- 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 (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 Tom Lammers, Dr. Michael J. Vassallo, and others via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. On-sale date from 1961 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
Zzutak!
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Zzutak
- Reprints
-
in Misterios del Gato Negro (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1953 series) #139 -
in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #3 (March 1971) which is reprinted - in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #2 (2017)
- in Adventure into Fear Omnibus (Marvel, 2020 series) (2020)
-
- Keywords
- monsters
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Zzutak the Thing That Shouldn't Exist!!
comic story / 13 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Steve Ditko
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek; Ray Holloway ?
- Job Number
- V-299
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Frank Johnson (introduction); Yucoya-Tzin (introduction, not named); Zzutak (introduction, origin)
- Synopsis
- An American comic book artist is forced by an Aztec priest to make a monster with magic paints. The artist creates another monster to fight the first, causing the temple to collapse on both monsters, giving the priest amnesia and ending the threat.
- Reprints
-
in Gespenster Geschichten (Bastei Verlag, 1974 series) #1086 - in Das Monster von Frankenstein (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #21
- in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #3 (March 1971) which is reprinted
-
in Eclipso (Arédit-Artima, 1968 series) #34 (octobre 1973) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]] - in Monster Masterworks (Marvel, 1989 series) (1989)
- in Monster Menace (Marvel, 1993 series) #3 (February 1994)
- in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #2 (2017)
-
- Keywords
- monsters
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person. Frank Johnson, Yucoya-Tzin and all next appear in Fantastic Four Unlimited (Marvel, 1993 series) #7 (September 1994).
This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"Zzutak" (7 pp). Story is pages 3-7, 10-14, 16-18 of comic (pages numbered 1 to 13).
Steve Ditko writer credit removed based on information from the Atlas/Timely list.
Snowstorm
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- J-866
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Dawson; Mr. Manfredy
- Synopsis
- A hiker lost in the snow meets a scientist who discovered how to transform other metals into gold but lives in isolation so his discovery will not cause turmoil.
- Reprints
- from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #47 (September 1956)
-
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
The Lifeless Man!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ?
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed as Ditko)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed as Ditko)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Ray Holloway ?
- Job Number
- V-301
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Joey Clark
- Synopsis
- A young boy prefers an old wooden toy soldier to more modern toys. His friends make fun of the toy, but when they are threatened by a bear the soldier seems to drive it off with its rifle.
- Reprints
-
in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #25 - in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #3 (March 1971) which is reprinted
- in Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
Punishment!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Don Heck
- Inks
- Don Heck
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- V-300
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In a far distant galaxy there spins a small planet known as Phato III!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Urru
- Synopsis
- An advanced civilization sends a mugger to a prison planet. Only a few moments on this world full of war, crime and disease make him go straight in order to avoid ever again coming back to Earth.
- Reprints
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #8
- in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #7 (February 1967)
- in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #34 (1968 ?) [Black and white.]
- in Hulk (Arédit-Artima, 1976 series) #5 (octobre 1977) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
- in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #187 ([circa 1987 - 1988])
-
Indexer Notes
Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Zzutak!
-
1.
Zzutak the Thing That Shouldn't Exist!!
-
2.
Snowstorm
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3.
The Lifeless Man!
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4.
Punishment!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Bill Borre
- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Ethan Hoddes
- machinal jocelyn
- Stephen Mitchell
- Mike Nielsen
- Gregory Roe
- Jim Van Dore
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