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Issue: Strange Tales #113
Publication Date: October 1963
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Issues: #113 of 168 Issues (243 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Vista Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: 07/09/1963
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 5 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is the publication date reported in U. S. Copyright Office filings.

This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements.

Inside front cover indicia incorrectly lists issue as #112, September - accidentally unchanged from previous issue.
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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 In9
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
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Original Artwork
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Plantman [Sam Smithers]
First Line: Even the flaming Human Torch is helpless before the super-natural power of the Plantman!
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Human Torch #1 [Regular Edition] published September 2006
In Content Item: FlagEssential Human Torch #1 published October 2003
as untitled [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]black & white
In Content Item: FlagCreepy Worlds #51 published ?
as Plantman! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Coming of the Plantman!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Plantman [Sam Smithers] (introduction, origin); Doris Evans (introduction); Mr. Evans (introduction)
Synopsis: The Human Torch saves his new girlfriend Doris’s father from a disgruntled gardener who gains the ability to control plants.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Human Torch #1 [Regular Edition] published September 2006
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales #16 published September 1968
as The Coming of the Plantman! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagI Fantastici Quattro #13 published September 1971
as Arriva l'Uomo Pianta! [Story on Interior Page(s)]pp 5–13, as "Arriva l'Uomo Pianta" part 2, Italian translation
In Content Item: FlagI Fantastici Quattro #12 published September 1971
as Arriva l'Uomo Pianta! [Story on Interior Page(s)]pages 1–4 only
In Content Item: FlagEssential Human Torch #1 published October 2003
as "The Coming of the Plantman!" [Story on Interior Page(s)]black & white
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: [X-398 ?]
Disclose Notes: Plantman's costume resembles that worn by The Shadow; he next appears, in a new costume, in issue #121 (June 1964). Doris Evans would continue as Johnny's semi-reluctant girlfriend until the end of his solo series.
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New Glasses

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Herbert; Mr. Blooper
Synopsis: A man insists on getting a specially made pair of glasses in a hurry, and finds that the optician has a magical corridor that leads back in time.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagSpellbound #30 published October 1956
was New Glasses [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: K-368
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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The Search for Shanng!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Shanng
Synopsis: An alien crash lands on Earth, and offers knowledge to in exchange for help. Greedy humans cannot find his ship, since he sensed their selfish thoughts and hid himself until humanity is ready.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSinister Tales #202 published January 1984
as The Search for Shanng! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: X-399
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The Shoemaker's Strange Assistants!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Uncle Hugo; Harry Hook
Synopsis: A shoemaker who enjoys telling the neighborhood children stories of the little people who come out at night to help him make shoes becomes ill and goes to a loan shark to acquire money for medical treatment. The loan shark harasses him constantly to make interest payments on his loan so he must work night and day. The last time the greedy money lender visits the shoemaker he gets the shock of his life as it turns out the little people are real. They shrink the man and put him to work building shoes for the shoemaker.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: [X-400 ?]

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