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Issue: Strange Tales #68
Publication Date: April 1959
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Issues: #68 of 168 Issues (243 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Zenith Publishing Corp.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in December 1958. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements (pages 2, 9, 15, 19, 25, 27, 33-36 of comic including inside front cover, inside back cover and back cover) ; pages of comic not numbered.

Some information on this issue supplied by Dr. Michael J. Vassallo, 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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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
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Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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Evacuate Earth!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Christopher Rule
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #30 published January 1964
as Evacuate Earth! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #173 published January 1977
as Evacuate Earth! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #210 published January 1983
as Evacuate Earth! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Last Warning--Evacuate Earth!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Joe Sinnott (signed)
Inker(s): Joe Sinnott (signed)
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Makka
Synopsis: A gaseous alien arrives on Earth to warn people to evacuate before its race invades. It attempts to communicate with humans telepathically, but they disregard his warning as madness or a trick. Convinced that the humans' lack of fear is due to some impenetrable defence, the alien leaves and warns its people to call off the invasion.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-172
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the second person. Story is pages 3-7 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
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Mystery Trip

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Joe Maneely
Inker(s): Joe Maneely
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Tommy Pidgeon; Goober Jones; Rosie; Uncle Pete
Synopsis: Tommy's uncle returns from a space journey needing to re-learn how to walk on earth instead of floating.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #46 published August 1956
was Mystery Trip [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-266
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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The Creatures from the Bottomless Pit!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Inker(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Serge Kemplet; Kloto
Synopsis: A man descends in a bathysphere into a pit so deep that he is surprised to find a waterless cavern beneath it occupied by elves banished long ago by a wizard. They stole the magic ball that kept Atlantis safe from the waves and so a sorcerer cast a spell that would send them to the deepest pit in the Earth. They offer to make the man ruler of humans if he returns them to the surface would. He agrees, but then has second thoughts about unleashing their mischief upon unsuspecting humanity and destroys the bathysphere, accepting underground exile in the process.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-150
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 10-14 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
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Test Pilot!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Christopher Rule
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Ralph Preston (only appearance)
Synopsis: A rocketship test pilot in the year 2089 takes an experimental rocket on a test flight. He faces an oxygen leak caused by a collision, alien raiders and other hazards before returning safely to Earth.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: T-168
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the second person. Story is pages 14-16, 18 of comic (pages of story misnumbered 1, 2, 3, 5).
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Next Stop--Mars!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Carl Burgos
Inker(s): Carl Burgos
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Shorty; Walter Lanson
Synopsis: A short child mocked for his height takes comfort from his one friend and his love of airplanes. He is rejected by the air force because of his height, but when his friend designs an experimental rocket that can only be piloted by a short man he becomes the first man on Mars.
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In Content Item: FlagAstounding Stories #121 published January 1976
as Next Stop -- Mars! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: T-176
Disclose Notes: Story is pages 21-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 4).
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Trapped In Tomorrow!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Buscema
Inker(s): John Buscema
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Willy Phelps
Synopsis: A man spends twenty years building a time machine in order to use knowledge of the future to enrich himself. He travels to 2010 and memorizes stock market and horse race information from the newspaper archives. When he tries to return to the past, however, he finds that he accidentally left his time machine in a futuristic garbage processor, and it has been disintegrated.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-171
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the second person. This story is retold in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #9 (May 1960) as "Time on My Hands!" drawn by John Forte. Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

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