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Issue: Strange Tales #79

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Publication Date: December 1960

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Issues: #79 of 168 Issues (244 Printings)

Title:

Variant: UK Cover Price

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

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Indicia Publisher: Zenith Publishing Corp.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN:

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Price: 9.0 pence GBQ 0-0-9

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
6 (5 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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Format

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

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Strange Tales #79 [U.S. Cover Price]

Strange Tales #79 [UK Cover Price]

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Cover, Front

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Title Page

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Content Items (6 total)

The Thing

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

I Was in the Clutches of the Living Shadow

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Philip Lawson; Warlord Kaa (introduction)

Synopsis: A writer witnesses the landing of two-dimensional alien warriors disguised as shadows. The writer escapes and warns the authorities in time for the shadow warriors to be uncovered and driven away.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Job Number: T-920

Notes: Warlord Kaa next appears in Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1968 series) #184 (February 1975).

Music Master

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy, occult

Character(s): Joe; Gus; Angelo

Synopsis: A struggling band takes on a poor but talented young harp player who turns out to be a young angel studying on Earth.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Job Number: G-804

Notes: Text story with illustration. Text story is pages 8, 26 of comic (pages of story not numbered).

The Ghost of Grismore Castle!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, occult

Character(s): Otis Norton; Victor

Synopsis: A practical jokester tricks his friend into fleeing a haunted house only to be attacked by real ghosts. He promises never to play a prank again while his friend, actually a ghost, watches approvingly.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Job Number: T-931

Notes: Narrated in the third person.

I Found the Perfect Hiding Place!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Harry Stubbs

Synopsis: A burglar plans to steal the crown jewels and then use a time machine to escape into the past. Instead, he is stranded in a hideous alternate world with no human civilization.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: T-921

The Thing on the Moon

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Dan Carter

Synopsis: Earth sends an expedition to the moon looking for a place to settle. They find a fertile valley and a robot left by the ancient empire of Atlantis to mark their claim to the moon.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Job Number: T-916