Strange Tales
#90
(November 1961)
Marvel,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1961-08-08
- 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 and the Atlas/Timely discussion group. On-sale date from 1961 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
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in Marvel: August 1961 Omnibus (Marvel, 2021 series) (2021) - in Monster Menace (Marvel, 1993 series) #4 (March 1994)
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Orrgo... The Unconquerable!
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Dick Ayers
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Ray Holloway ?
- Job Number
- V-364
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Orrgo (introduction); Jo-Jo
- Synopsis
- An alien race with immense telepathic and telekinetic powers send one of their kind to conquer Earth. He easily defeats the police and army and freezes Washington, DC in a block of ice, but is killed by a gorilla while resting because he only prepared defences against humans.
- Reprints
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in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #38 -
in Die Gruft von Graf Dracula (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #20 which is reprinted -
in Le Monstre de Frankenstein (Editions Héritage, 1973 series) #2 [Pages 4 et 5 Seulement] - in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #26 (1964 ?)
- in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #2 (January 1971) which is reprinted
- in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #179 ([circa 1985 - 1986])
- in Monster Menace (Marvel, 1993 series) #4 (March 1994)
- in Monsters Unleashed Prelude (Marvel, 2017 series) (2017)
- in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #2 (2017)
- in Marvel: August 1961 Omnibus (Marvel, 2021 series) (2021)
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- Keywords
- monsters
Indexer Notes
Orrgo or a character based on him next appears in Defenders (Marvel, 2001 series) #9 (November 2001).
Story is pages 3-7, 10-11 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 7).
Special Sale
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Joe Maneely
- Inks
- Joe Maneely
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- J-932
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Marvin Kale; Paula Kale
- Synopsis
- When a husband goes shopping he finds a new cleaning fluid that makes anything better than new, even him.
- Reprints
- from Strange Tales of the Unusual (Marvel, 1955 series) #5 (August 1956)
- in Marvel: August 1961 Omnibus (Marvel, 2021 series) (2021)
-
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
A Thousand Years Later...
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed as
Stan Lee [early- to mid-career]) - Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed as S. DITKO)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed as S. DITKO)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Ray Holloway ?
- Job Number
- V-365
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Adam; Eve
- Synopsis
- A scientist prolongs his life for a thousand years, outliving all his friends as Earth becomes overpopulated. When Earth is abandoned he stays behind with one young woman, leaving only the two of them, Adam and Eve, to restart civilization.
- Reprints
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #15 (1964 ?)
- in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #35 (1968 ?) [Black and white]
- in Chamber of Darkness (Marvel, 1969 series) #8 (December 1970)
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in Vengeur (Arédit-Artima, 1972 series) #11 (4ème trimestre 1974) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]] - in Doctor Who Weekly (Marvel UK, 1979 series) #39 (10th July 1980)
- in Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (2019)
- in Marvel: August 1961 Omnibus (Marvel, 2021 series) (2021)
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Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person. This story is a retelling of "I Am the Last Man on Earth!" drawn by Don Heck, from Strange Worlds (Marvel, 1968 series) #1 (December 1958).
Story is pages 12-14, 16-18 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 6).
The Inhuman!
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-366
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- X-35
- Synopsis
- In a war against robots, the robots try to find a way to break the human defenses by sending a robot spy disguised as a human. The spy leads them into a trap, and they discover that their spy was a human disguised as a robot.
- Reprints
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #15 (1964 ?)
- in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #35 (1968 ?) [Black and white]
- in Fear (Marvel, 1970 series) #2 (January 1971) which is reprinted
- in L'Étonnant Spider-Man (Editions Héritage, 1969 series) #19 (février 1973)
- in Adventure into Fear Omnibus (Marvel, 2020 series) (2020)
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in Super Giant (K. G. Murray, 1973 series) #[nn] ([1973] ?) - in Marvel: August 1961 Omnibus (Marvel, 2021 series) (2021)
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Indexer Notes
Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
Germ Warfare
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Paul Reinman (signed as
Paul Reinman) - Inks
- Paul Reinman (signed as Paul Reinman)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Ray Holloway ?
- Job Number
- V-367
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- John Marshall; Molitis germ
- Synopsis
- A medical researcher on a boat enlarges a germ to human size, causing it to attack him and hijack the boat. The germ lands on an island in order to make an army of enlarged germs, but an atomic test destroys it.
- Reprints
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #15 (1964 ?)
- in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #6 (December 1966)
- in Marvel: August 1961 Omnibus (Marvel, 2021 series) (2021)
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- Keywords
- monsters
Indexer Notes
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.
Orrgo, the Unconquerable!
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1.
Orrgo... The Unconquerable!
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2.
Special Sale
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3.
A Thousand Years Later...
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4.
The Inhuman!
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5.
Germ Warfare
This issue was modified by, among others
- Henry Andrews
- Bill Borre
- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Ethan Hoddes
- Terry Jeffress
- machinal jocelyn
- Mike Nielsen
- Gregory Roe
- Jim Van Dore
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