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Issue: Strange Tales #5

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Publication Date: August 1987

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Issues: #5 of 19 Issues (35 Printings)

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Variant: Newsstand

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

Brand: Marvel

Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group

On Sale Date: 1987

Volume: 2

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 07148602893208

Price: $0.95 CAD
$0.75 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
4 (2 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Modern Age US

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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2 Strange Tales #5 [Direct]

Strange Tales #5 [Newsstand]

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Content Items (4 total)

The Return of The New Defenders + Cloak & Dagger vs. The Rodent

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

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Genres: occult, superhero

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Pages: 1

Vermin

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

First Line: Filthy rats!

Synopsis: Vermin, a man mutated into rat-like form by an enhanced pesticide, seeks revenge on New York for killing rats. Ordering his Super-Rats to capture children, Vermin imprisons them in the sewers so that, if the humans try to use pesticides again, the children will die. Nightmare plots to use Cloak to kill Dr. Strange. Cloak and Dagger defeat Vermin.

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Pages: 11

The Snows of Yesteryear

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: occult, superhero

Character(s): Old Jigme (death); Lt. Bhattacharya

First Line: The wind is cold and sparsely sown with snow as it descends from the fathers of mountains, the Himalayas.

Synopsis: Travelling through the Himalayas, Dr. Strange begrudgingly allows Valkyrie to take the soul of Jigme, his guide, who has been injured in an avalanche. Rintrah and Strange arrive at the Lamasery of the Ancient Ones.

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In-house Column on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Character(s): Jim Shooter

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Pages: 1

Notes: In-House column, includes a ProFile on Jim Shooter and checklist of issues on sale.