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Issue: Strange Tales #64
Publication Date: August 1958
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Issues: #64 of 168 Issues (243 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Chipiden Publishing Corp.
On Sale Date: 03/27/1958
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 12, Part 2, No. 1,
Periodicals, January-June 1958, p. 153.

This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.

Information on this issue supplied by Tom Lammers and the Atlas/Timely discussion list. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.
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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
Format Notes:  
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The Strange Laboratory of Dr. Domino!!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee
Penciller(s): Joe Maneely (signed)
Inker(s): Joe Maneely (signed)
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Dr. Domino
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #8 published ?
as The Strange Laboratory of Dr. Domino!! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Secret Laboratory of Dr. Domino

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler ?
Penciller(s): Al Williamson
Inker(s): Al Williamson
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Dr. Domino
Synopsis: A conman hires some elderly women and young girls to enter a cabinet so that the old woman exit the back and the young girls come out the front to give the illusion that their youth has been restored. The old women in the audience throw money at the man who promises them their youth back. A sorceress appears who wants the treatment and he admits that he is a fraud. The sorceress ages him.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: M-377
Disclose Notes: Possible Wessler script from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015. Inventory stories by Wessler may have been retitled. This story may have originally been titled "Step Inside my Machine"
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What Is Monium?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler ?
Penciller(s): John Forte (signed)
Inker(s): John Forte (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Burt Kane; Zorani
Synopsis: A man discovers a metal that when cut in two remains connected even though it appears that there is empty space between the parts. He starts a magic act where anything he tosses through one hoop pops out the other. An audience member discovers his secret and forces him into criminal acts. When the thief forces the man to construct a crate to hold the loot, he places the hoop inside the crate and breaks down the door he was imprisoned behind. He confronts the thief who attempts to escape through his hoop but finds himself inside the sealed crate on the way to the penitentiary.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K-85
Disclose Notes: Possible Wessler script from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015. Inventory stories by Wessler may have been retitled. This story may have originally been titled "The Empty Handcuffs".
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So This Is Mars!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bob Powell
Inker(s): Bob Powell ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Mr. Worth; Craig
Synopsis: A Martian filmmaker teleports a human filmmaker's Martian set to Mars and is disappointed to find human culture identical to Martian culture.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: K-170
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The Silent City!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler ?
Penciller(s): Jim Mooney
Inker(s): Jim Mooney
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Gustave Tarnal
Synopsis: A man finds that he can rob helpless frozen people if he stops all of the clocks in town but he forgets about a sundial.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: L-246
Disclose Notes: Set in 1820. Possible Wessler script from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015. Inventory stories by Wessler may have been retitled. This story may have originally been titled "When the Clock Stops".
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What On Earth?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bob McCarty
Inker(s): Bob McCarty
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Albert Feldgurt
Synopsis: One man thinks that humans cannot achieve space travel, and must allow nature to take them to other worlds like seeds. He is ignored, but when he becomes a spiritual leader spreading the message of love his theory is proved, as people disappear under the warming power of love.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: K-176
Disclose Notes: Set in the twenty-first century.
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The Busybody

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Mrs. Miller; Jean Matsen; Fred Johnson; Harold Trimble; Carolyn Harris
Synopsis: A cruel landlady steals her tenant's mail to trick her into doing extra chores, but when she eats chocolates sent to the girl she finds out too late that they were poisoned by a jealous lover.
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From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #26 published March 1954
was The Busybody [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: D-992
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The Last Warning!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Vic Carrabotta (signed)
Inker(s): Vic Carrabotta (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Don Reide; Alma Reide
Synopsis: A man saves his own life by sending a radio message through time that helps a younger version of himself escape a cave-in.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: K-96
Disclose Notes: This story may have been completed some time before publication, since it is set in 1956.

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