Strange Tales
#82
[British]
(March 1961)
Marvel,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 9d [0-0-9 GBP]
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Vista Publications Inc.
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
A price variant intended for distribution in the United Kingdom with replaced cover price.
This issue is a variant of Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #82.
This issue is a variant of Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #82.
It
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Munch's animated construct [only called "It" in title]
- Reprints
- Keywords
- monsters
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The Thing Called...It!
comic story / 13 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (signed as Kirby)
- Inks
- Dick Ayers (signed as Ayers)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- V-70
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Heinrich Munch; Munch's animated construct [only called "It" in title]
- Synopsis
- A scientist builds a creature to kill a rival, but it refuses to obey. Its creator turns the local people against it, and in trying to kill the creature, the scientist is killed and the thing’s mind is transferred to his body, freeing it to live as a man.
- Reprints
-
in Misterios del Gato Negro (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1953 series) #135 (Mayo 31 de 1961) -
in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #21 (1962) -
in Fantasy Masterpieces (Marvel, 1966 series) #4 (August 1966) - in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #15 (February 1972)
-
in Eclipso (Arédit-Artima, 1968 series) #61 (4ème trimestre 1977) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]] - in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #1 (2017)
-
- Keywords
- monsters
Indexer Notes
This story is divided into two chapters: Chapter 1: The Thing Called It! (6 pp) and Chapter 2: 'It' Lives! (7 pp). Story is pages 3-7, 10-14, 16-18 of comic (pages numbered 1 to 13).
The Utopia
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Joe Maneely
- Inks
- Joe Maneely
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- K-188
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Bob Winkle; Fred Dunn
- Synopsis
- Two old friends deceive each other about their own success, until a dream of a heavenly restaurant teaches them the importance of honesty.
- Reprints
- from Astonishing (Marvel, 1951 series) #53 (September 1956)
-
Indexer Notes
Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
The World Beyond
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ?
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed as Steve Ditko)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed as Steve Ditko)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Ray Holloway ?
- Job Number
- V-62
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- A scientist creates a pill to shrink himself to subatomic size, convinced that whole other worlds exist at microscopic levels. His pill works, and he vanishes into a whole new world called Earth.
- Reprints
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #16
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #53
- in Misterios del Gato Negro (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1953 series) #135 (Mayo 31 de 1961)
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #17 (September 1972)
- in Eclipso (Arédit-Artima, 1968 series) #55 (4ème trimestre 1975) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #37 (September 1975)
- in Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (2019)
-
Indexer Notes
This story is a retelling of "I Shrunk Away to Nothing!", also drawn by Ditko, from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #56 (January 1960).
Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
Fangs of the Monster
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Don Heck
- Inks
- Don Heck
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Ray Holloway ?
- Job Number
- V-59
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Darius Storme
- Synopsis
- A cruel hunter pursues a sea monster for sport, but finds himself at its mercy. The creature is intelligent and telepathically berates the hunter, leaving him alive to suffer the punishment of never finding anyone who will believe his story.
- Reprints
- in Misterios del Gato Negro (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1953 series) #135 (Mayo 31 de 1961)
- in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #21 (1962)
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #37 (September 1975)
-
- Keywords
- monsters
Indexer Notes
Narrated in the first person. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
It
-
1.
The Thing Called...It!
-
2.
The Utopia
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3.
The World Beyond
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4.
Fangs of the Monster
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- David Bruce
- Steve Coates
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