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Issue: Strange Tales #71
Publication Date: October 1959
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Issues: #71 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 June 1959. 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. From this issue to issue #79 (December 1960) almost all new stories in Strange Tales are narrated in the first person.

Some information on this issue supplied by Tom Lammers and the Timely/Atlas 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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Title Page
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I Defied the Black Magic!!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Jack Davis
Inker(s): Jack Davis
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Merlin
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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I Dared to Defy Merlin's... Black Magic!

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): Merlin
Synopsis: An American businessman scoffs at a shopowner's claim that one of his books was Merlin's diary, until a terrifying vision of Merlin turns his hair white. As he runs from the shop, the shopkeeper thinks that he must remember not to leave his diary out.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #17 published January 1963
as I Dared to Defy Merlin's ... Black Magic! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagChamber of Darkness #6 [unnamed variant] published August 1970
as I Dared to Defy Merlin's... Black Magic! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #156 published January 1975
as I Dared to Defy Merlin's... Black Magic! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: This story could conceivably be in Marvel continuity, in which case this might be any of the three Merlins.
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The Disappearance

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Character(s): Jasper Milty; Tom Milty
Synopsis: An old man disgruntled with society becomes rich by discovering uranium.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagUncanny Tales #41 published March 1956
was The Disappearance [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: H-320
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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I Am the Man Who Will... Destroy Your World!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Penciller(s): Don Heck
Inker(s): Don Heck
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): Ray Holloway ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Mool [Ralph Masters]; John; Anne
Synopsis: An alien emperor of an immortal race comes to Earth disguised as a human to decide whether or not to order an invasion. He is impressed with the humans' decency and falls in love with a human girl, calling off the invasion and giving up immortality to stay with her.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #17 published January 1963
as I Am the Man Who Will ... Destroy Your World! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFear #1 published November 1970
as I Am the Man Who Will...Destroy Your World! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuper Giant #[nn] published January 1973
as I Am the Man Who Will…Destroy Your World [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #156 published January 1975
as I Am the Man Who Will... Destroy Your World! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-372
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When the Saucer Strikes!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler ?
Penciller(s): Paul Reinman (signed)
Inker(s): Paul Reinman (signed)
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): Ray Holloway ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Joe; Charlie
Synopsis: A airline pilot is nearly hit by a flying saucer and must bank suddenly to avoid it. The passengers where mostly asleep, and the one who was awake says that he saw nothing...because he's really a Martian tourist and the saucer came to pick him up.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #6 [U.S. Cover Price] published November 1970
as When the Saucer Strikes! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: T-376
Disclose Notes: Narrated.
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I Fought the Man Who Couldn't Be Killed!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler ?
Penciller(s): Sol Brodsky
Inker(s): Sol Brodsky
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): Artie Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Duke Jordan
Synopsis: A criminal escapes from prison after 10 years and robs a warehouse. He is found by a police officer with superhuman powers, and is surprised to learn that the police now only recruit robots.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFear #1 published November 1970
as I Fought the Man Who Couldn't Be Killed [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagClimax Adventure Comic #19 published April 1976
as I Fought the Man Who Couldn't be Killed! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: T-373
Disclose Notes: Set in 1969.
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I Am the Man Without a Face!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee ?
Penciller(s): Joe Sinnott (signed)
Inker(s): Joe Sinnott (signed)
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): Ray Holloway ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Rufus Watkins
Synopsis: A bigot rounds up some thugs to don black hoods and drive some harmless gypsies out of town. One of the gypsies curses him, and he is never able to remove his hood for the rest of his life.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #17 published January 1963
as I Am the Man Without a Face! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWhere Creatures Roam #2 published September 1970
as I Am the Man Without a Face! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuper Giant #8 published March 1974
as I Am the Man Without a Face [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: T-371
Disclose Notes: This story is a retelling of "Men in Black" by Stan Lee and John Romita, Sr. from Menace (Marvel, 1953 series) #3 (May 1953). The hoods are more clearly a reference to the Ku Klux Klan than in the original (they are not randomly chosen disguises, but something the bigot's "pappy left me when he died").

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