Strange Tales
#136
(September 1965)
Marvel,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1965-06-08
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Vista Publications, Inc.
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [under character box]
- Editing
- Stan Lee (credited) (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1965 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
Find Fury or Die!
Doctor Strange; Nick Fury / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby; Steve Ditko (bottom tier)
- Inks
- Mike Esposito (sourced); Steve Ditko (bottom tier)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
- Genre
- spy; superhero; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Colonel Nick Fury; Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Hydra
- Reprints
-
in Pow! (IPC, 1967 series) #3 (4 February 1967) -
in Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD (Marvel, 1968 series) #16 (November 1970) - in Essential Dr. Strange (Marvel, 2001 series) #1 (December 2001) [black and white]
- in Marvel Masterworks: Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Marvel, 2007 series) #1 ([October] 2007)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Doctor Strange (Marvel, 2010 series) #1 ([December] 2010)
- in The Ultimate Graphic Novels Collection - Classic (Hachette Partworks, 2014 series) #3 - Doctor Strange: A Nameless Land, A Timeless Time (July 2014) which is reprinted
-
in Die offizielle Marvel-Comic-Sammlung (Hachette [DE], 2013 series) #3 - Doctor Strange: Ein namenloses Land, eine zeitlose Zeit (September 2015) - in S.H.I.E.L.D. by Lee & Kirby. The Complete Collection. (Marvel, 2015 series) ([September] 2015)
- in S.H.I.E.L.D.: The Complete Collection Omnibus (Marvel, 2015 series) (2015)
- in Doctor Strange Omnibus (Marvel, 2016 series) #1 (2016)
- in Doctor Strange Epic Collection (Marvel, 2016 series) #1 - Master of the Mystic Arts (2018)
- in Mighty Marvel Masterworks: Doctor Strange (Marvel, 2021 series) #2 - The Eternity War (2022)
-
Indexer Notes
Dr. Strange image taken from interior story.
![Cover Thumbnail for Strange Tales (1951 series) #136 [British]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1066/w100/1066585.jpg?1045680713343320470)
Find Fury or Die!
Nick Fury / comic story / 12 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (credited); Jack Kirby (co-plot, uncredited)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (credited) (layouts); John Severin (credited as Johnny Severin)
- Inks
- John Severin (credited as Johnny Severin)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hail Hydra! I have located target! He suspects nothing!
- Genre
- spy; superhero
- Characters
- S.H.I.E.L.D. [Clipper Charlie; Colonel Nick Fury; Slim]; Hydra [Imperial Hydra (unnamed); Hydra-Hunter (Section Leader B, death)]
- Synopsis
- HYDRA agents tail Fury intent on finding SHIELD's HQ, but Fury is aware he's being followed. HYDRA Section Leader B, a "Hydra-Hunter," runs the mission and hands over his hood to the Imperial Hydra so he will have no place to hide should he fail. When a few HYDRA agents show up at the barber shop which is the secret entrance to SHIELD's HQ, they're captured and hypnotized into believing the HQ is located in a warehouse blocks away. They attack the warehouse with a "Hydra-Ram,"-- but it's a trap! His plan a failure, Section Leader B is soon "replaced," while Fury ponders the future.
- Reprints
- in Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD (Marvel, 1968 series) #16 (November 1970)
-
in Vengeur (Arédit-Artima, 1972 series) #8 (1er trimestre 1974) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]] - in Marvel Masterworks: Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Marvel, 2007 series) #1 ([October] 2007)
- in Secret Warriors (Panini France, 2012 series) #2 (octobre 2012)
- in S.H.I.E.L.D. by Lee & Kirby. The Complete Collection. (Marvel, 2015 series) ([September] 2015)
- in S.H.I.E.L.D.: The Complete Collection Omnibus (Marvel, 2015 series) (2015)
-
Indexer Notes
Part 2 of 7. 1st appearance of the SHIELD barber shop, a tribute to the tailor shop secret entrance to UNCLE HQ in the TV show THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. 1st appearance of the "Hydra-Ram," a flying saucer-type vehicle. Nick Fury, SHIELD & HYDRA turn up at Reed & Sue's wedding in FANTASTIC FOUR ANNUAL #3 (November 1965).
What Lurks Beneath the Mask?
Doctor Strange / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- Steve Ditko (credited) (plot); Stan Lee (credited) (dialogue)
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (credited)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (credited)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This series was voted "most likely to succeed" (by: Stan Lee, and Baron Mordo
- Genre
- superhero; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Aged Genghis; Ancient One; Baron Mordo; Clea (unnamed); Dormammu; Hamir; Rama Kaliph; Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Abu Ben Hakim
- Synopsis
- Dormammu imprisons Clea, telling her she will witness Strange's defeat. Mordo tells Dormammu that Strange is searching for "Eternity" and is puzzled by the dark lord's violent reaction. Strange continues his search, going from one mystic to another with no results, until The Aged Genghis tells him only he and The Ancient One know the secret. He gives him a scroll, which leads Strange to a being imprisoned in another dimension; a trap he barely escapes. Back in Tibet, Strange tells his master's servant the only option left is to enter the mind of The Ancient One.
- Reprints
- in Terrific! (IPC, 1967 series) #24 (23 September 1967)
- in Marvel's Greatest Comics (Marvel, 1969 series) #25 (February 1970)
- in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #186 (July 1976) [Page 3, panels 6-8 and page 4, panels 1-5 omitted.]
-
in L'Incroyable Hulk (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #92/93 ([avril 1979]) [N&B [B&W]] - in Doctor Strange, Master of the Mystic Arts (Pocket Books, 1978 series) #2 (July 1979)
- in Doctor Strange Classics Starring Doctor Strange (Marvel, 1984 series) #3 (May 1984)
- in Marvel Fanfare hors-série (Arédit-Artima, 1985 series) (1985)
- in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #23 ([December] 1992)
- in Essential Dr. Strange (Marvel, 2001 series) #1 (December 2001) [black and white]
- in Marvel Masterworks: Doctor Strange (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 ([September] 2003)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Doctor Strange (Marvel, 2010 series) #1 ([December] 2010)
- in The Ultimate Graphic Novels Collection - Classic (Hachette Partworks, 2014 series) #3 - Doctor Strange: A Nameless Land, A Timeless Time (July 2014) which is reprinted
- in Die offizielle Marvel-Comic-Sammlung (Hachette [DE], 2013 series) #3 - Doctor Strange: Ein namenloses Land, eine zeitlose Zeit (September 2015)
-
in Marvel. Официальная коллекция комиксов (Ашет Коллекция [Hachette], 2014 series) #73 - Доктор Стрэндж: Земля Без Имени, Время Без Времени - in Doctor Strange Omnibus (Marvel, 2016 series) #1 (2016)
- in Doctor Strange Epic Collection (Marvel, 2016 series) #1 - Master of the Mystic Arts (2018)
- in Ditko Is... Strange King-Size (Marvel, 2020 series) (2020)
- in Mighty Marvel Masterworks: Doctor Strange (Marvel, 2021 series) #2 - The Eternity War (2022)
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Indexer Notes
Part 7 of 17.
[no title indexed]
Strange Mails / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Stan Lee ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Letter from: Johnnie Cirkoth, Neal Cohen, Ted Field, Juan de la Barrera, Benny Brower; The Mighty Marvel Checklist.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Find Fury or Die!
Doctor Strange; Nick Fury -
1.
Find Fury or Die!
Nick Fury -
2.
What Lurks Beneath the Mask?
Doctor Strange -
3.
[no title indexed]
Strange Mails
This issue was modified by, among others
- Chris Boyko
- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Robert K. S. Croy, Sr.
- Gregory Fischer
- Steve Jenner
- Henry R. Kujawa
- Darrel McCann
- Donald Dale Milne
- Mark Q
- Derek Reinhard
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
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