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Issue: Strange Tales #122
Publication Date: July 1964
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Issues: #122 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: 04/09/1964
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 5 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. On-sale date from 1964 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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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 In15
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
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3 Against The Torch!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Terrible Trio [Handsome Harry Phillips; Yogi Dakor; Bull Brogin]; Doctor Doom [Victor von Doom]; Dr. Strange [Stephen Strange]
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Human Torch #2 [Regular Edition] published March 2009
In Content Item: FlagEssential Dr. Strange #1 [unnamed variant] published December 2001
as Strange Tales #122 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]black & white
In Content Item: FlagEssential Human Torch #1 published October 2003
as 3 Against the Torch! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]black & white
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Doctor Strange #1 published December 2010
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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3 Against The Torch!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: Occult
Character(s): Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Terrible Trio [Handsome Harry Phillips; Yogi Dakor; Bull Brogin]; Doctor Doom [Victor von Doom] (flashback); Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards] (flashback); Thing [Ben Grimm] (flashback); Invisible Girl [Sue Storm] (cameo)
Synopsis: In flashback we see the how Dr. Doom used "The Terrible Trio" to trap the Fantastic Four, then discarded his underlings by sending them into another dimension! With Doom gone, the three return to Earth, where they're foolish enough to try taking on The Torch again, figuring 3 against 1 would be no contest. WRONG! After, Sue gives Johnny hell for how his "roughneck" friends must have messed up "her" house.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Human Torch #2 [Regular Edition] published March 2009
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Tales #24 published January 1970
as 3 Against the Torch! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagI Fantastici Quattro #23 published February 1972
as Tre contro la Torcia [Story on Interior Page(s)]as "Tre contro la Torcia", Italian translation
In Content Item: FlagEssential Human Torch #1 published October 2003
as 3 Against the Torch! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black & white
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 14
Job Number: X-703
Disclose Notes: Second appearance of "The Terrible Trio"; they last appear in Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #23 (February 1964) and they next appear in issue #129 (February 1965). Handsome Harry resembles actor Tony Franciosa.
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The World Beyond

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: Occult
Feature(s): Dr. Strange Master of the Mystic Arts!
Character(s): Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Nightmare; The Gulgol (illusion)
Synopsis: Weary from his struggles against supernatural forces, Strange falls asleep, carelessly forgetting to cast a protective spell over himself and becoming a prisoner of the Nightmare World! Nightmare imprisons Strange, the only human who has ever defeated him, then says he's bored and looks forward to other victims. Strange summons The Gulgol, a creature that never sleeps, and Nightmare begs Strange to stop it. He does so without uttering a spell, for in reality, Strange hypnotized Nightmare into seeing the one thing he feared; it was never there in the first place. Freed, Strange wakes up.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagDoctor Strange, Master of the Mystic Arts #[1] published June 1978
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Collectors' Item Classics #13 published February 1968
as The World Beyond [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGiant-Size Marvel Triple Action #1 published May 1975
as The World Beyond [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks #23 published December 1992
as The World Beyond [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Dr. Strange #1 [unnamed variant] published December 2001
as The World Beyond [Story on Interior Page(s)]black & white
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Doctor Strange #1 [Regular Edition] published September 2003
as The World Beyond [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Doctor Strange #1 published December 2010
as The World Beyond [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Job Number: X-696
Disclose Notes: This is the third appearance of Nightmare; he last appears in issue #116 (January 1964) and next appears in Doctor Strange (Marvel, 1968 series) #170 (July 1968).
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Two More Triumphs for Marvel..!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: promos for Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel, 1963 series) #14 (July 1964) and Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1963 series) #28 (July 1964) include cover repros. Printed between the pages of the Dr. Strange story.
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Strange Mission

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Alfred Pook; Harold; Dr. Smith
Synopsis: A man becomes confused over directions to the dentist and as a result accidentally pilots an expedition to claim a new planet.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMystery Tales #45 published September 1956
was Strange Mission [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]page 1
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: [K-440]
Disclose Notes: Printed after the Dr. Strange story. Continues in next issue.

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