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Issue: Strange Tales #86

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Publication Date: July 1961

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Issues: #86 of 168 Issues (243 Printings)

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Variant: UK Cover Price

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

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Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications, Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

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Price: 9.0 pence GBQ 0-0-9

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
5 (4 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: Color

Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US and standard Silver Age US

Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior

Binding: Saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series

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Strange Tales #86 [U.S. Cover Price]

Strange Tales #86 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (5 total)

I Who Created Mechano!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Mechano

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Pages: 1

I Created Mechano!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Mechano; Mr. Hopkins; Tommy Briggs

Synopsis: A giant robot goes out of control and attacks people, but its creators try to prevent the authorities from destroying it. They encounter a group of alien invaders who were not prepared to face a robot and are driven away, moments before the police arrive and blast Mechano to bits.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 13

Job Number: V-221

Notes: Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and part two—"Mechano" (7 pp). Story is pages 3-7, 10-14, 16-18 of comic (pages numbered 1 to 13).

Discovery

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Chauncey; Zeke; Muscles Magee

Synopsis: A scrawny man is given a magic candy bar that confers great strength, but he discovers that he already posesses more strength than he suspects.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Job Number: K-479

Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).

Georgie's Globe!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Character(s): Georgie

Synopsis: A clumsy boy has a globe which seems to mirror damage done to it in the real world. When the globe is smashed a mysterious force intervenes and a far away dead world explodes.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: V-220

Notes: Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

Beware of Meeks Bringing Gifts!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Walter Johnson

Synopsis: Aliens arrive on Earth and give Earth advanced devices that eliminate poverty and conflict. A journalist forces one of them to admit at gunpoint on the air that they are planning an invasion.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: V-222

Notes: Narrated in the first person. The title is a reference to the saying "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts," which comes from the story of the Trojan Horse.
Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).