Strange Tales
#94
(March 1962)
Marvel,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1961-12-12
- 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. Some information supplied by Tom Lammers and the Timely/Atlas discussion list. On-sale date from 1961 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
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I Was a Decoy for Pildorr: The Plunderer from Outer Space!
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (signed as Kirby)
- Inks
- Joe Sinnott (signed as Sinnott)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- John Duffy
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- John Brett; Pildorr
- Synopsis
- Earth sends a pilot to get an important cargo past attacking space pirates. He is caught and thrown into space, his cargo taken. The cargo is a cobalt bomb that destroys the pirates, and the pilot is a robot, so he survives.
- Reprints
-
in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #15 (1964 ?) -
in Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel, 1967 series) #24 (January 1970) - in Marvel Visionaries: Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2004 series) #1 ([October] 2004)
- in King-Size Kirby (Marvel, 2015 series) (2015)
- in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #2 (2017)
- in Marvel Visionaries: Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2019 series) (2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)
The Treasure
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- [G-980]
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Tommy Miller; Mr. Miller; Mrs. Miller; Wish
- Synopsis
- A sick boy takes comfort from a stray dog that grants wishes.
- Reprints
- from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #36 (October 1955)
-
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration.
Save Me from the Weed!
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Dick Ayers
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- V-524
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Lucius Farnsworth; George
- Synopsis
- A man urges his unambitious gardener to go into business for himself, but his humble diligence saves the world when he snips a radioactive telepathic weed while it rests.
- Reprints
- in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #27 (1962)
- in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #57 (1965)
- in Giant-Size Man-Thing (Marvel, 1974 series) #3 (February 1975)
-
in Thor e i Vendicatori (Editoriale Corno, 1975 series) #148 (14 Dicembre 1976) - in Monster Menace (Marvel, 1993 series) #2 (January 1994)
- in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #2 (2017)
-
Indexer Notes
The last page includes an advertisement for Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Kirby. Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.)
He Came from Nowhere!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Joe Sinnott (signed as Joe Sinnott)
- Inks
- Joe Sinnott (signed as Joe Sinnott)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Ray Holloway ?
- Job Number
- V-525
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Joe Morgan; Groff
- Synopsis
- A fugitive meets a man from the future who offers to switch places. When he arrives, however, he finds that the man was another criminal, a shape-shifting Uranian. The authorities imprison him, assuming his form is a disguise.
- Reprints
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #26 (1964 ?)
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #64 (1966)
- in Supernatural Thrillers (Marvel, 1972 series) #7 (June 1974)
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #155 ([circa 1975 - 1976])
-
in Dracula (Red Clown, 1974 series) #3/1975 (1975) -
in Hulk (Arédit-Artima, 1976 series) #5 (octobre 1977) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]] - in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #189 ([circa 1979 - 1980])
-
Indexer Notes
This story is a retelling of "My Nightmare Has No End!", drawn by Don Heck, from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #12 (October 1960).
Sinnott inks based on information from the Atlas/Timely list and Bob Bailey. Previous indexer credited George Tuska. Script added by Bob Bailey, 12 August 2005 (Per Sandell ed.). Sinnott pencils credit based on signature on page 1.
Help!
comic story / 5 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
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- V-526
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- A man gets a mysterious call for help but thinks it's a crank call and slams down the phone, breaking it. The caller is overjoyed, since it was a tiny alien spaceship trapped inside the phone receiver.
- Reprints
- in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #38
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #26 (1964 ?)
- in Kull, the Destroyer (Marvel, 1973 series) #15 (August 1974)
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #155 ([circa 1975 - 1976])
- in Capitan America (Editoriale Corno, 1973 series) #91 (6 Ottobre 1976)
- in Submariner (Arédit-Artima, 1976 series) #10 (juillet 1978) [N&B et remonté [B&W and reframed]]
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #189 ([circa 1979 - 1980])
- in Marvel Visionaries: Steve Ditko (Marvel, 2005 series) (2005)
- in Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #2 (2019)
- in Marvel Visionaries: Steve Ditko (Marvel, 2019 series) (2019)
-
Indexer Notes
The last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Pildorr, the Plunderer from Outer Space!
-
1.
I Was a Decoy for Pildorr: The Plunderer from Outer Space!
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2.
The Treasure
-
3.
Save Me from the Weed!
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4.
He Came from Nowhere!
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5.
Help!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Bill Borre
- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Ethan Hoddes
- Steve Jenner
- Hunter Johnson
- Darrel McCann
- Mike Nielsen
- Gregory Roe
- Tony R. Rose
- Per Sandell
- Jim Van Dore
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