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Issue: Strange Tales #83
Publication Date: April 1961
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Issues: #83 of 168 Issues (243 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating:
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 6 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Distributed to newstands in January 1961. 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 Tom Lammers, Dr. Michael J. Vassallo, and others via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. 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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Disclose Reprinted In6
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
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Grogg Is Here!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Grogg
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #27 published March 1974
as Grogg is Here! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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From Out of the Black Pit Came...Grogg!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Grogg (introduction); Miklos Kozlov (introduction); Col. Fedor Vorcutsky
Synopsis: A reluctant Soviet scientist wakes the ancient dragon Grogg with atomic tests. The dragon attacks the soldiers and gives the scientist the opportunity to defect to the US, just as he had hoped, since he knew in advance that Grogg existed.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWhere Monsters Dwell #27 published March 1974
as From Out of the Black Pit Came...Grogg! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: V-107
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (6 pp) and
part two—"The Awesome Vengeance of Grogg" (7 pp). Story is pages 3-7, 10-14, 16-18 of comic (pages numbered 1 to 13).
The last page includes an editorial note that reads: "Want to see MORE of Grogg? Write Stan Lee, Strange Tales, 655 Madison Ave., N.Y.C. 21, N.Y."

Grogg and Kozlov next appear in issue #87 (August 1961).
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Make a Wish

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Gerald Harper; Jimmy Gordon; Mrs. Gordon; Mr. Gordon
Synopsis: A man invents a wishing machine but loses the prototype on the way to the patent office.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #25 published July 1955
was Make a Wish [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]new illustration
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1.75
Job Number: G-301
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration. The first page of this story is printed between the pages of the lead story, while the second page is printed between the two back-up stories. The last page is split with the statement of ownership. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).
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Masquerade Party

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Cara Frost; Alice Bond (née Dodd); Rex Bond
Synopsis: A beautiful but vicious socialite spoils the plans of an old rival by throwing a masquerade party. She is scared by her rival’s husband, who tricks her into thinking he is a demon.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagChamber of Chills #16 published May 1975
as Masquerade Party [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #203 published January 1984
as Masquerade Party [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-106
Disclose Notes: The last two panels were added by a different artist, possibly Sol Brodsky, likely due to a Comics Code problem. The ending is altered so that the demon/devil is a normal man in disguise.
Story is pages 20-24 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).
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Statement Required by the Act of August 24, 1912, as Amended by the Acts of March 3, 1933, July 2, 1946 and June 11, 1960 (74 Stat. 208)

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.25
Disclose Notes: This shares the last page of "Make a Wish". Average circulation of each issue published October 1959–September 1960 (issues #73–81): 169,601.
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The Menace of Shandu!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Tommy Jones; Shandu the genie
Synopsis: A boy finds a magic book in a used bookstore and summons a genie, which vows to torture him after granting his wish. He wishes for everything to be restored to before he went to the bookshop, and he does not buy the book a second time.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCrypt of Shadows #17 published May 1975
as The Menace of Shandu! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #203 published January 1984
as The Menace of Shandu! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-108
Disclose Notes: The plot for this story was reused in "It's Only Magic!" by Stan Lee and John Buscema in Chamber of Darkness # 1, October 1969.
Story is pages 28-32 of comic (pages of story numbered 1 to 5).

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